Scholarly Practices for Global Educational Leaders

2017 ◽  
pp. 604-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki L. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
The U.S

Higher education institutions are responding to 21st Century globalization through internationalization, and faculty members are the “main engines” of those processes (Galinova, 2015, p. 31). Therefore, it is essential for higher education faculty members to lead with interculturally competent personal and scholarly practices. Marshall (2016) explored practices of eight successful global educational leaders, including five females and three males from eight different states in the U.S. (Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia). All of the leaders have traveled internationally, have worked with international students, and have published or presented on the topic of international education. Emerging themes suggested that global educational leaders who exercised CORE personal practices (Compassion for others, Open communication, Respectfulness, and Ethnorelativism) also implemented scholarly practices that enabled them to REACH across cultures. Scholarly practices included Reading global literature, Establishing global networks, Adapting to cultural diversity, Collaborating, and Helping others to succeed.

scholarly journals The Global Neighborhood: Programming Initiatives with International Living-Learning Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Sarah McClanahan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
International Students ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
International Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Living Learning Communities ◽  
The U.S

The United States is currently enrolling more international students than any other country in the world. In 2011, approximately 764,000 international students were enrolled in higher education in the U.S., comprising 19% of the world’s total students studying internationally (Institute of International Education, 2012). This rise, as well as the rapid globalization occurring within the United States, has brought about a need for students and staff in higher education to be equipped to communicate cross-culturally and have an understanding of global issues. International living-learning communities (I-LLCs) are a way for universities to provide opportunities for domestic students and international students to live together and gain global knowledge through first-hand experiences and programs directed at international issues. While I-LLCs are not necessarily common across the U.S., many institutions are in the process of creating such programs in order to expand the global focus of their institutions. 

C.O.R.E. Personal Practices Implemented by Global Educational Leaders

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Lynn Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Global Leadership ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Global Leadership Practices ◽  
Global World ◽  
The U.S

Marshall (2016) conducted a phenomenological narrative research study that explored global leadership practices. The leaders who responded were from eight different states in the U.S., and they all worked in higher education settings. The successful global educational leaders shared C.O.R.E. personal practices they implement: Compassion for others, Open communication, Respectfulness, and Ethnorelativism. These personal practices enabled these higher education faculty members to not only lead in a global environment, but also to prepare students to become global citizens who are not only competitive in the global market, but who will also make positive contributions to sustaining our global world.

scholarly journals What International Students Think about US Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Chow
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
Push Factors ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
The U.S

Key Words: prospective international students, perceptions of U.S. higher education, global student mobility. This article discusses the attitudes and perceptions that international students have of U.S. higher education, based on results from surveys conducted by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in eleven key places of origin. Despite not having any national policies designed to attract students from other countries, the U.S. remains well-positioned in the international student marketplace, with various pull factors attracting students to the U.S., including the high quality and diverse range of U.S. higher education institutions, and the perception that the U.S. is a welcoming country for international students. However, anti-push factors also exist, with cost predominating and perceptions of visa difficulties persisting in some countries.

scholarly journals The Perils of Commercialism: Australia's Example

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach ◽  
Anthony Welch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Recent Policy

International higher education has become a major income producer for Australia for more than two decades. The prime goal of internationalization was moneymaking, which resulted in creating problems in ethics, quality, and academic integrity. The recent policy change in reducing international students has affected institutions that had been too dependent upon high proportions of international enrollments. All of this is a predictable outcome of commercialism shaping international education.

scholarly journals International Student Transitions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sharif Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The U.S

Andrade and James Hartshorn (2019) surrounds the transition that international students encounter when they attend universities in developed countries in pursuit of higher education. Andrade and James Hartshorn (2019) describe how some countries like Australia and the United Kingdom host more international students than the United States (U.S.) and provides some guidelines for the U.S. higher education institutions to follow to host more international students. This book contains seven chapters.

scholarly journals An Investigation of the Experiences of Working with Multilingual International Students among Local Students and Faculty Members in Chinese Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6419
Author(s):  
Yawen Han ◽  
Wenxuan Li ◽  
Min Bao ◽  
Xinyu Cao
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Learning Attitudes ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
Local Students ◽  
Depth Interviews

In recent years, as a response to the internationalization of higher education worldwide, China has begun to enroll international students to study at the tertiary level on an increasingly large scale. While the majority of the programs and courses are open to international students via Chinese as Chinese-medium instruction (CMI), there are also an increasing number of programs and courses delivered through English-medium instruction (EMI). In order to understand higher education multilingual contexts, this qualitative study examines how local students and faculty members make sense of their engagement with international students in three Chinese universities. In the study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 11 academics who worked with international students as project supervisors and 25 Chinese university students regarding their experiences of working with international students. The findings that emerged from the thematic analysis revealed that international students’ learning engagement was profoundly mediated by language barriers, cultural assumptions and the academic conventions in host institutions. The study revealed that Chinese academics are concerned about international students’ learning attitudes, their academic progress and a lack of participation due to their language ability. Local Chinese students also reported a lack of satisfaction in working with international students. Some of the local students felt that some international students may have been enabled to enroll in the academic programs as a result of national and university policies, which has led to a ‘dumbing down’ of the curriculum offered in English. The findings indicate that more needs to be done to promote mutual exchanges and better understanding among international students, Chinese faculty members and local students.

scholarly journals Navigating the Lows to Gain New Heights: Constraints to SoTL Engagement

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea S. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Scholarly Teaching ◽  
Canadian Research

Novice Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) leaders making the transition from scholarly teaching to SoTL to SoTL Leadership face many challenges within higher education. Not only does traditional academic culture confine most academics to disciplinary silos, but promotion and tenure requirements encourage faculty members to conduct SoTL work “off the side of their desk,” if at all (Boyer, 1990; Dobbins, 2008; Webb, Wong, & Hubball, 2013). This paper shares some of the findings from a recent study that investigated what constrained educational leaders’ understanding of SoTL while enrolled in a SoTL Leadership program at a Canadian research-intensive university. The paper will also explore implications for the support and enrichment of educational leadership.

scholarly journals International Students and Higher Education: New Perspectives on Cultures and Communities

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-84
Author(s):  
Catherine Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Doctoral Studies

I was very pleased to be invited to be the guest editor for this issue of the Journal of International Students, not least because the journal presents cutting-edge research that is generating new perspectives in the field. The journal is filling a gap in the literature and its significance is drawing attention from other established journals such as the Journal of Studies in International Education (see the editorial of JSIE, 16 (1) 2013, p.3). One of the main strengths of the journal is its combination of contributions from established researchers and emergent researchers many of whom have experienced international mobility themselves and are undertaking doctoral studies in this field. Previous work has noted the under-exploited nature of research work carried out by international students and staff themselves and its potential in informing the field.

scholarly journals Where We Are Now –The Presence and Importance of International Students to Universities in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall Hegarty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Major Industry ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Job Prospects

This paper highlights the importance of international students to the United States by discussing their impact and necessity to U.S. universities. International student enrollment is a major industry of importance to the U.S. economy and despite arduous visa processes and diminished job prospects their enrollment numbers continue to grow. The Institute of International Education (2012) reports that a lack of funding to public universities has increased their reliance on the revenue provided by international students while private universities also seek to bolster their position in the face of increased international competition. The importance of international students in under-enrolled majors, their necessity as a vital revenue stream for universities and the challenges faced by both student and host university are also discussed. The author provides recommendations for improving the educational experience of international students through improved relationships with university constituents in order to maintain the attractiveness and competitiveness of the U.S.

scholarly journals Assessing Domestic vs. International Student Perceptions and Attitudes of Plagiarism

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-565
Author(s):  
Daniel Adrian Doss ◽  
Russ Henley ◽  
Balakrishna Gokaraju ◽  
David McElreath ◽  
Hilliard Lackey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
International Student ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Teaching Institution ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Higher Education Teaching ◽  
Necessary Evil ◽  
The U.S

The authors examined students’ perceptions of plagiarism from a higher education teaching institution within the U.S. southeast. This study employed a five-point Likert-scale to examine differences of perceptions between domestic versus international students. Statistically significant outcomes were observed regarding the notions that plagiarism is a necessary evil and that plagiarism is illegal. Respectively, the analyses of the means showed that respondents tended toward disagreement concerning the former notion and neutrality regarding the latter notion.

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