The Road to Intercultural Development and Internationalization

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Erica Jin Jung
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Intercultural Development ◽  
Demographic Diversity ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Road ◽  
International Student Recruitment ◽  
The University

The post-secondary educational landscape is slowly becoming a backdrop for an increasing number of examples of efforts being made to establish intercultural development and internationalization at the university and college levels. Universities and colleges are responding to the increase in international student recruitment and to technological advancement both of which promote collaboration in research, teaching, and studying across borders. The growing demographic diversity has resulted in changes to how and what internationalization looks like in our post-secondary institutions and in higher education in general. This chapter explores four areas that are key to the process: buy-in from the Administration, support in the curricular arena, recognition for intercultural work of faculty members, and a more centralized mechanism and structure to help advance the internationalization agenda. Despite the progress made in Canada, these areas are still continuing to gain traction in higher education in other countries.

The Road to Intercultural Development and Internationalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 476-490
Author(s):  
Erica Jin Jung
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Intercultural Development ◽  
Demographic Diversity ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Road ◽  
International Student Recruitment ◽  
The University

The post-secondary educational landscape is slowly becoming a backdrop for an increasing number of examples of efforts being made to establish intercultural development and internationalization at the university and college levels. Universities and colleges are responding to the increase in international student recruitment and to technological advancement both of which promote collaboration in research, teaching, and studying across borders. The growing demographic diversity has resulted in changes to how and what internationalization looks like in our post-secondary institutions and in higher education in general. This chapter explores four areas that are key to the process: buy-in from the Administration, support in the curricular arena, recognition for intercultural work of faculty members, and a more centralized mechanism and structure to help advance the internationalization agenda. Despite the progress made in Canada, these areas are still continuing to gain traction in higher education in other countries.

2. The Neoliberal and Neoracist Potentialities of International Doctoral Student of Color Admissions in Graduate Education Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-53
Author(s):  
Dian Squire
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
International Student ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
International Student Recruitment ◽  
Knowledge Regime ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The University

Abstract The increasing internationalization and globalization of higher education exist in relation to a globalized capitalistic economy driven by neoliberal ideologies. Based on neoliberal and neoracist theory, this essay begins a conversation on the ways that the recruitment and admissions of graduate-level international students of color in Education programs bolsters the academic capitalist/ knowledge regime to the detriment of understanding the nuances of the human experience on college campuses. International students are recruited from countries with high economic potential, admitted to producing prestige-bolstering outputs, exploited to provide financial capital to the university, and treated as dehumanized commodities. This essay, therefore, peels away layers exposing the related and perceived purposes of international student recruitment and the neglectful treatment of those students. It points to a nuanced understanding of international admissions that must be considered in higher education.

scholarly journals Academic Drift in Canadian Institutions of Higher Education: Research Mandates, Strategy, and Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Lane D. Trotter ◽  
Amy Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Degree Completion ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Academic Drift ◽  
Secondary Systems ◽  
Community Pressure ◽  
The University ◽  
Market Pressures

As with higher-education institutions around the world, British Columbia (BC) and Ontario are increasingly faced with demographic and market pressures that erode the traditional difference between the university and non-university sectors (i.e., colleges and institutes). Key components that ensure these provinces’ institutions preserve their unique roles and differentiations in a changing context, partially driven by their governments, include research mandates, transparency in institutional governance, and strategic documents that resist the academic drift created by institutional isomorphism. Both governments are actively reshaping their post-secondary systems to align with national or regional economic needs, increasing access, streamlining degree completion, and responding to community pressure to have a university or a degree-granting institution. An analysis of the enabling legislation, government policy directives, and institutional documents of both provinces shows that there is a blurring in the distinction between colleges and universities, and the costs associated with this.

scholarly journals INDIA – CANADA COLLABORATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION – THE ROAD AHEAD

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Hirenkumar Dhulia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Road ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process ◽  
External Body

Higher education accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of post-secondary educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met. If standards are met, accredited status is granted by the agency.

Brevity is the Soul of Wit or Something Else

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-211
Author(s):  
Sheldon Rothblatt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The University

This chapter looks at two works by accomplished and informed scholars. The first book, Universities and Colleges: A Very Short Introduction (2017), is by David Palfreyman and Paul Temple. The second, The Origins of Higher Learning, Knowledge Networks and the Early Development of Universities (2017), is by Roy Lowe and Yoshihito Yasuhara. The Origins of Higher Learning is an account of what may be termed a run-up to the institutionalization of higher learning that occurred in what Charles Homer Haskins called The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927), the century in which the university as yet inchoate, is to be found. Meanwhile, Palfreyman and Temple essentially concentrate on the transformation in mission, organisation, and ‘stakeholders’ in the nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention to the provision for ‘higher education’ or ‘tertiary education’ in the United Kingdom (mainly England) and the United States.

scholarly journals Challenging the power invested in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS): Why determining ‘English’ preparedness needs to be undertaken within the subject context

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Pilcher ◽  
Kendall Richards
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
International Student ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Testing ◽  
Testing System ◽  
International Student Recruitment ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International English

Higher education institutions worldwide base international student recruitment on the assumption that their preparedness in ‘English’ is assured if they reach a certain level in tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). This assumes an abstract, objectivist view of language that sees the ‘English’ as removable for testing in any context. However, in an individual, subjectivist view of language, ‘English’ is inextricably linked with context – that is, subject content which symbiotically connects thought and meaning. In this article, the authors outline these views of language and consider the ‘English’ of IELTS. They then detail interviews and focus groups which they conducted with lecturers in the subject areas of Design, Nursing, Engineering, Business, Computing and Psychology. These researched the ‘English’ required in subjects and the thinking underpinning it. The authors go on to present and discuss results around three themes of ‘How “English” is specific to the content of subjects’, ‘How the “English” of subjects is underpinned by unique ideological and psychological elements’ and ‘How the non-textual elements of different subjects are intertwined with their “English”’. The results illustrate why it is necessary to challenge the power invested in IELTS, and why determining English preparedness needs to be undertaken within the subject context.

PLANNING OF THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN OF “MULSCOMPLEX”

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Kh. Munkhtuya ◽  
B Enkhbold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
State University ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
The University

There has come an urgent necessity to reconstruct the university building and dormitory on the basis of detailed planning and researches as well as to plan the landscape architecture specifically dedicated to teachers, employees and students step by step according to the standard of higher education organizations. We aim to implement the project taking accounts of not only designs of university campuses in developed countries but also higher education trends in our own country and the mission of Mongolian State University of Agriculture /MULS. The significance of landscape planning is immense. But there is a lack of green environment, convenience, recreation fields, appropriate design etc. at universities and colleges in Mongolia where students, teachers and employees gather in a large number. Therefore, the rationale behind choosing this subject lies in planning and implementing it properly.Mongolian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol.13(2) 2014: 66-72

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