Transnational Diaspora Engagements in HIgher Education:

The literature on diaspora engagement in higher education focuses on broadenvironmental, policy, and institutional issues as critical determinants ofthe scope and efficiency of engagement. Using data from interviews with 16Ethiopian diaspora academics in the United States, this article undertakesa micro-examination of factors in their personal spaces and immediateenvironment that influence such engagement. Using a phenomenologicalapproach, it examines how professional, personal, familial and otherindividual attributes shape the trajectories of diaspora engagement. Itdemonstrates how nuances in personal and micro-environmental factorsshape motivation for, and sustenance of, engagement, while they maintaina complex and interdependent relationship. The article concludes byhighlighting the importance of a holistic approach to the study of diasporaengagement in higher education that pays attention to personal and microenvironmentalfactors as well as institutional, legal, and political issues. Key words: Ethiopia, Ethiopian diaspora, diaspora engagement, highereducation, transnational engagement

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The Partisan Next Door

10.1017/9781009086462 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ethan C. Busby ◽

Adam J. Howat ◽

Jacob E. Rothschild ◽

Richard M. Shafranek

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Everyday Life ◽

The United States ◽

The Political ◽

Political Issues ◽

Using Data ◽

Partisan Conflict ◽

Democrats And Republicans ◽

Political Realm

In the United States, politics has become tribal and personalized. The influence of partisan divisions has extended beyond the political realm into everyday life, affecting relationships and workplaces as well as the ballot box. To help explain this trend, we examine the stereotypes Americans have of ordinary Democrats and Republicans. Using data from surveys, experiments, and Americans' own words, we explore the content of partisan stereotypes and find that they come in three main flavors—parties as their own tribes, coalitions of other tribes, or vehicles for political issues. These different stereotypes influence partisan conflict: people who hold trait-based stereotypes tend to display the highest levels of polarization, while holding issue-based stereotypes decreases polarization. This finding suggests that reducing partisan conflict does not require downplaying partisan divisions but shifting the focus to political priorities rather than identity—a turn to what we call responsible partisanship.

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Migration and the Internet

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v14i3.347 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 331-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Thomas John Cooke ◽

Ian Shuttleworth

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽

Panel Study ◽

The United States ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Using Data ◽

And Migration ◽

Dynamics Models

It is widely presumed that information and communication technologies, or ICTs, enable migration in several ways; primarily by reducing the costs of migration. However, a reconsideration of the relationship between ICTs and migration suggests that ICTs may just as well hinder migration; primarily by reducing the costs of not moving. Using data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, models that control for sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity indicate a strong negative effect of ICT use on inter-state migration within the United States. These results help to explain the long-term decline in internal migration within the United States.

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Educational Entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu - A Profile

Journal of Entrepreneurship & Management ◽

10.21863/jem/2015.4.1.005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Siluvai Raja

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

World Bank ◽

Education System ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

The United States ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Higher Education System ◽

The Third ◽

The World

Education has been considered as an indispensable asset of every individual, community and nation today. Indias higher education system is the third largest in the world, after China and the United States (World Bank). Tamil Nadu occupies the first place in terms of possession of higher educational institutions in the private sector in the country with over 46 percent(27) universities, 94 percent(464) professional colleges and 65 percent(383) arts and science colleges(2011). Studies to understand the profile of the entrepreneurs providing higher education either in India or Tamil Nadu were hardly available. This paper attempts to map the demographic profile of the entrepreneurs providing higher education in Arts and Science colleges in Tamil Nadu through an empirical analysis, carried out among 25 entrepreneurs spread across the state. This paper presents a summary of major inferences of the analysis.

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Book Review: The Shaping of American Higher Education

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1126 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gary H. Knock

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Early History ◽

Quarter Century ◽

American Higher Education ◽

History Of ◽

Broad Understanding

In the introduction of this book, Arthur Cohen states that The Shaping of American Higher Education is less a history than a synthesis. While accurate, this depiction in no way detracts from the value of the book. This work synthesizes the first three centuries of development of high-er education in the United States. A number of books detail the early history of the American collegiate system; however, this book also pro-vides an up-to-date account of developments and context for under-standing the transformation of American higher education in the last quarter century. A broad understanding of the books subtitle, Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System, is truly realized by the reader.

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Winning the Argument and Moving the Fight: The Legacy of a Grassroots Humanitarian

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.24 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 115

Author(s):

Mary Coleman

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Winning Strategy ◽

Supreme Court Decision ◽

The United States ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

The Political ◽

Political Actors ◽

Trade Offs

The author of this article argues that the two-decades-long litigation struggle was necessary to push the political actors in Mississippi into a more virtuous than vicious legal/political negotiation. The second and related argument, however, is that neither the 1992 United States Supreme Court decision in Fordice nor the negotiation provided an adequate riposte to plaintiffs’ claims. The author shows that their chief counsel for the first phase of the litigation wanted equality of opportunity for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as did the plaintiffs. In the course of explicating the role of a legal grass-roots humanitarian, Coleman suggests lessons learned and trade-offs from that case/negotiation, describing the tradeoffs as part of the political vestiges of legal racism in black public higher education and the need to move HBCUs to a higher level of opportunity at a critical juncture in the life of tuition-dependent colleges and universities in the United States. Throughout the essay the following questions pose themselves: In thinking about the Road to Fordice and to political settlement, would the Justice Department lawyers and the plaintiffs’ lawyers connect at the point of their shared strength? Would the timing of the settlement benefit the plaintiffs and/or the State? Could plaintiffs’ lawyers hold together for the length of the case and move each piece of the case forward in a winning strategy? Who were plaintiffs’ opponents and what was their strategy? With these questions in mind, the author offers an analysis of how the campaign— political/legal arguments and political/legal remedies to remove the vestiges of de jure segregation in higher education—unfolded in Mississippi, with special emphasis on the initiating lawyer in Ayers v. Waller and Fordice, Isaiah Madison

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A Historical Study on the Educational Policy of the Federal Government in the United States focused on political issues around the Financial Policies of Education

Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction ◽

10.22251/jlcci.2018.18.22.1389 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (22) ◽

pp. 1389-1410

Author(s):

Seong Soo Park ◽

Key Hyoung Eum

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Educational Policy ◽

Federal Government ◽

The United States ◽

Historical Study ◽

Financial Policies ◽

Political Issues

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Practical Approaches to Higher Education

10.1093/oso/9780190863494.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jane Kotzmann

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Human Rights ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Real Life ◽

Theoretical Models ◽

The United States ◽

Education Systems ◽

Higher Education Systems ◽

Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter explores the real-life operation of six higher education systems that align with the theoretical models identified in Chapter 2. Three states follow a largely market-based approach: Chile, England, and the United States. Three states follow a largely human rights-based approach: Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. The chapter describes each system in terms of how it aligns with the particular model before evaluating the system in relation to the signs and measures of successful higher education systems identified in Chapter 3. This chapter provides conclusions as to the relative likelihood of each approach facilitating the achievement of higher education teaching and learning purposes.

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Using Accountability to Improve Student Learning in Higher Education Music Programs

The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 1 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190248093.013.32 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 745-765

Author(s):

Jeffrey Ward

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Student Learning ◽

The United States ◽

Program Improvement ◽

Influential Factor ◽

Assessment Process ◽

Curricular Development ◽

Accreditation Standards ◽

Improve Student Learning

Educational accountability has become an increasingly influential factor in higher education. This chapter examines various government oversight and accreditation standards in Central and South America, Europe, and the United States and how student learning in higher education in music can be improved through meeting these standards. The author specifically describes music accreditation procedures of the National Association of Schools of Music and the American Music Therapy Association in the United States. Using accreditation standards as a guideline for program improvement, the author offers a variety of assessment best practices to engage higher education faculty in the assessment process, to improve instruction, to guide curricular development, and to ultimately improve student learning.

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Challenges in Bridge Health Monitoring: A Review

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21134336 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (13) ◽

pp. 4336

Author(s):

Piervincenzo Rizzo ◽

Alireza Enshaeian

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Health Monitoring ◽

Highway Bridges ◽

The United States ◽

Anomalous Behavior ◽

Existing Structures ◽

Bridge Health Monitoring ◽

Using Data ◽

The Many ◽

Major Factors

Bridge health monitoring is increasingly relevant for the maintenance of existing structures or new structures with innovative concepts that require validation of design predictions. In the United States there are more than 600,000 highway bridges. Nearly half of them (46.4%) are rated as fair while about 1 out of 13 (7.6%) is rated in poor condition. As such, the United States is one of those countries in which bridge health monitoring systems are installed in order to complement conventional periodic nondestructive inspections. This paper reviews the challenges associated with bridge health monitoring related to the detection of specific bridge characteristics that may be indicators of anomalous behavior. The methods used to detect loss of stiffness, time-dependent and temperature-dependent deformations, fatigue, corrosion, and scour are discussed. Owing to the extent of the existing scientific literature, this review focuses on systems installed in U.S. bridges over the last 20 years. These are all major factors that contribute to long-term degradation of bridges. Issues related to wireless sensor drifts are discussed as well. The scope of the paper is to help newcomers, practitioners, and researchers at navigating the many methodologies that have been proposed and developed in order to identify damage using data collected from sensors installed in real structures.

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