John C. Weidman

University of Pittsburgh | Pitt · Department of Educational Foundations and Policy

Using the framework for graduate and professional student socialization developed by Weidman, Twale, and Stein (2001), this study addresses socialization of doctoral students to the academic norms of research and scholarship. Data are presented about the perceptions doctoral students in a social science discipline (sociology) and in educational fou...

This report on the process of graduate and professional student socialization provides information that can be of use to graduate program faculty and administrators, professional associations, state legislatures, and professional licensing bodies charged with assuring clients that well qualified professional practitioners are being prepared in the...

The purpose of this chapter is to extend the body of research and thought on college impact by developing a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding some salient elements of the socialization process as it occurs in higher education. The framework builds from both psychological and social structural conceptions, drawing upon sociologica...

The purpose of this article is to build a series of frameworks for understanding social and educational changes that have the potential to inform the preparation of future international development education scholars and practitioners. It begins with a description of the main trends driving contemporary development education. This is followed by a...

This book expands the scholarly literature on student impact in higher education, spanning the college years through graduate school as well as into the early career. It focuses on the significance of socialization processes in higher education for the successful navigation by students of academic programs preparing the next generation of professio...

This chapter addresses conceptualizing global educational policy development during periods of changing social and economic trends and patterns, with a particular focus on adaptation to global (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic) as well as national and local crises. It builds on classic theories of social and education change and reflects the author's ex...

The presentation summarizes my framework for understanding socialization of graduate students in higher education and the early career. It also includes a list of selected publications using it.

This chapter presents conceptual frameworks for understanding social and educational changes that influence international educational development policy. Drawing from several main trends driving contemporary educational development and reform, directions reflected in international educational policy declarations generated by United Nations agencies...

In this chapter, we reflect on selected applications of Weidman’s three major frameworks for understanding student socialization in higher education and more recent iterations of that work as well as chapters in the present book to build a more comprehensive and inclusive model of student socialization in higher education for future application in...

This chapter contains a brief synopsis of and reflection on the intellectual journey that brought the author to where he is today with respect to the study of student socialization in higher education as well as other directions his career has taken over the course of more than half a century. Evolution of the frameworks developed for understanding...

This chapter provides an overview of the book, describing its basic purpose (to celebrate, critique, and extend the work by John Weidman and colleagues on socialization in higher education). It provides a synopsis of its contents by sections and chapters, each written by leading scholars who are actively engaged in research on issues of student and...

Donald K. Adams specialized in international educational policy, planning, policy and evaluation. His distinguished career included a record of influential publications as well as teaching and advising of graduate students, many of whom went on to become educational leaders in their home countries and international development agencies. Don’s consu...

This study investigated the effect of college on unemployed people’s attitudes toward gender in Turkey. Gender, age, income, and the number of household members were also included in the model as well as college and gender interaction. The data were publicly available and collected by a team of researchers sponsored by the World Bank), the Spanish...

This article links comparative and international higher education research to ideas put forward in the 1817 pamphlet by Marc-Antoine Jullien, Esquisse, that is widely recognized as a foundational work for the field of comparative education, including providing its name. The paper describes how Jullien’s ideas in Esquisse are reflected in the contem...

This article links comparative and international higher education research to ideas put forward in the 1817 pamphlet by Marc-Antoine Jullien, Esquisse, that is widely recognized as a foundational work for the field of comparative education, including providing its name. The paper describes how Jullien’s ideas in Esquisse are reflected in the contem...

In the current study, the relationship between gender role conflict, professional role confidence, and intentional persistence was examined using data from a survey of male and female Chinese engineering students. Intentional persistence was significantly associated with gender role conflict and professional role confidence; however, the pattern of...

Published in 2001, the Weidman-Twale-Stein model of graduate student socialization was developed to frame student socialization in a general way. Research published since that time suggests that socialization also is informed by particular individual and institutional characteristics that comprise the more general constructs in the mode. Therefore,...

In 2001, John Weidman, Darla Twale, and Elizabeth Stein authored a widely cited monograph (Socialization of graduate and professional students in higher education: A perilous passage?) in which they developed a conceptual model of graduate student socialization. This presentation re-visits the original conceptual framework to discuss changes and de...

This article explores the contribution of Asia Pacific Education Review (APER) to expanding the scope of research on comparative and international education in Asia. We developed a rubric based on extensive studies (Rust, et al., 1999; Foster, et al., 2012) of research in the field to compare three highly ranked journals in the field of comparative...

This chapter examines the evolution of Kenyan government education policies from independence in 1963 to the present, with a specific emphasis on initiatives contributing to the attainment of universal primary education (UPE). These policies were reflected in several attempts to provide Free Primary Education (FPE), initially abolishing school fees...

Very seldom have I seen a volume like this one that provides such a wealth of information and insight in ways that are useful to students, academics, as well as seasoned international development education practitioners. Moving toward the twilight of a distinguished career, Clive Harber has delivered a tour de force in sharing his experience and in...

There seems to be renewed interest in having universities and other higher education institutions engage with their communities at the local, national, and international levels. But what is community engagement? Even if this interest is genuine and widespread, there are many different concepts of community service, outreach, and engagement. The wid...

In this chapter we examine several community engagement strategies with higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide. We begin by defining community engagement in higher education. Next, we look at several different levels of community engagement in higher education, recognizing it occurs at many levels, including international, regional, nationa...

There has been a resurgence of interest in comparative and international research on teacher education that has been driven, in large part, by the emergence over the past two decades of comprehensive international studies of student achievement supported by (1) the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Programme for Interna...

This edited volume received the Best Book Award from the Higher Education Special Interest Group (HESIG) of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in 2012. It is based on findings from the international study, the Changing Academic Profession (CAP), “a common survey of academics in 18 countries from 5 continents, the results of...

This chapter describes the contribution of current research using the Weidman model of undergraduate socialization to understanding student identity development in college. It illustrates ways in which the framework can be used flexibly and adapted for studying impacts of mulatiple aspects of the college experience on diverse groups of students.

This conceptually oriented presentation reviews ways that the Weidman (1989) model of undergraduate socialization has continued being used to formulate research published over the past decade (2003-2013), moving the framework in heuristic directions that address cognitive as well as affective outcomes along with organizational dimensions of college...

Since the publication of the 2nd Edition of this Reader in 2001, there has been a large increase in the amount of research and scholarly publication on issues of higher education finance. This is not surprising, given the pattern of decreased public funding and increased student cost over this period. Strategic planning and its relationship to budg...

Commentary on article addressing higher education reform in Saudi Arabia.

The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. The field draws contributions from education, sociology, human development, family studies, economics, politics and public policy. Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide introduces students t...

The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. The field draws contributions from education, sociology, human development, family studies, economics, politics and public policy. Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide introduces students t...

This book aims to contribute to worldwide debates on internationalization. It offers new insights and perspectives on internationalization and trans-national higher education (TNHE) with contributions from three continents. These include the student experience in Malaysia, China, Japan and India as well as institutional perspectives and pedagogical...

As the global commitment to educational access has become enshrined in all levels of society, new technologies have also been developed that hold tremendous promise for enabling these goals. This new reality provides vastly expanded possibilities for international collaboration, knowledge building, sharing of best practices, and new ways to teach,...

This study was commissioned by Oyu Tolgoi, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and the largest employer in the Mongolian mining sector. The purpose of this study is to provide information useful to it and to other private sector employers, in order to understand the capacity of the Mongolian education system to supply qualified personnel for the emerging lab...

The article investigates global participation in academic research productivity through the growth of publications from Latin America and the Carib-bean (LA&C) in two of the most prestigious bibliographic indexes, Scopus and the Science Citation Index (SCI). Data were obtained from the SCImago Journal and Country Rank and the Iberian-American and I...

This book explore notions of quality as understood within various systems of national, formal, and nonformal education. It considers the tensions that arise with the introduction of new standardized notions of quality in relation to international measures and educational reforms in developing countries. Challenges to quality that are given particul...

Decentralization is a common theme in discussions concerning political, social, and economic reforms. Nonetheless, although often characterized as essential to strengthening democratization, cultural and indigenous rights, local accountability, and local governance, decentralization does not necessarily result in greater efficiencies, empowerment,...

The increasing proportion of entering students has been one of the most outstanding events in the recent evolution of higher education. In particular, the extension to more inclusive groups including female students and less privileged social class students is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Over the past decade and a half, higher education expans...

This volume celebrates and extends the scholarship of Rolland G. Paulston through a collection of essays and research studies reflecting the thoughtful approaches to the study of comparative education that he modeled, both literally and figuratively. Esther Gottlieb (2009), one of Paulston’s former doctoral students, has written about the various d...

This is the inaugural volume in the PSCIE (Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education) Series which expands on the life work of University of Pittsburgh professor Rolland G. Paulston (1929-2006). Recognized as a stalwart in the field of comparative and international education, Paulston's most widely recognized contribution is soc...

This article describes the social, economic, and political processes that have influenced educational reform in two countries of Central Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It compares and contrasts the various educational reform initiatives that have occurred in each country, including legal and policy frameworks, curriculum change, d...

This chapter addresses the experiences of doctoral students as they develop the capacity to do research that is recognized within academic fields and disciplines through publication. It looks at these experiences through the lens of socialization, namely, the processes through which doctoral students develop the knowledge, skills, and values that w...

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the participation worldwide of scientific publication from Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C). It responds to questions related to the current situation and recent changes in the indicators of science and technology and scientific publication in the region, types of actors and institutions respons...

This article investigates reasons for the lower participation of males than females in Mongolian higher education. In 2004–2005, 62 percent of Mongolian undergraduates were female, a pattern that has existed since the early 1990s (Davaa et al. 2005). Only Kyrgyzstan among the republics of Central Asia has a similar predominance of females enrolled...

This article discusses the role and finance of public Community Colleges in the USA, using the CCAC (Community College of Allegheny County) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an example. The authors describe the various sources of operating revenue and expenditures along with the proportion of each type. Financial issues include lack of flexibility, d...

It may be surprising to many that, according to the Institute for International Education (IIE), only the two most populated countries in the world, India and China, sent more students to study in post-secondary programs in the United States during 2005-2006 (76,503 and 62,582, respectively) than South Korea (58,847). The number of South Korean stu...

Executive Summary As stated in the “Technical Directions” provided by the Social Transition (ST) Team at USAID, the main objectives of this review were: …to (a) validate/confirm the premise that existing scholarly studies have not developed a comprehensive framework and/or a model to quantify the effect of corruption in the education sector on a co...

This article documents the rapid growth in enrollment in postsecondary education abroad by South Korean students, from 24,315 in 1986 to 190,364 in 2006. Only the two most populated countries in the world, India and China (each with almost twenty times more people than South Korea), sent more students to study in postsecondary programs in the Unite...

This chapter treats the notion of “college impact” under the broad concept of socialization, relying on the classic definition by Brim (1966): “the process by which persons acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that make them more or less effective members of their society” (p. 3). Society is not necessarily a unitary construct given that...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the strategies employed over the last decade by governments of five Central Asia republics—Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—to raise educational quality at the primary and secondary levels. Data are drawn from a 2002 cross-national study sponsored by the Asian Developm...

The Journal of Higher Education 76.2 (2005) 232-234 In Academic Disciplines, three distinguished scholars of higher education take the study of college impact to a new level. Grounding their work in the theory of careers developed by John L. Holland (1966, 1997), they present a thorough and convincing empirical study of the effects of academic majo...

Since they gained independence in the early 1990s, the former Soviet republics, including those in Central Asia and the Caucasus, have engaged in ambitious reforms to modernize their education and training systems. Facilitating the transition to a market-based economy and fostering national unity are among the long-term goals of these reforms. Nati...

This paper presents reflections on the author's work as an international consultant for the Asian Development Bank technical assistance (TA) project that developed the Mongolia Education Sector Strategy 2000-2005. It illustrates the use of a sector-wide approach to building a strategy for obtaining donor funding by laying out priorities across the...

The primary goal of the Pittsburgh team in this report was to recommend a series of steps to allow the University of the North to move to new structures, processes and programs within the next two years.

Almost half of the total population of eighteen year-olds in Korea in 1992 entered higher education. Despite the rapid growth of higher education enrollments (215 times larger in 1992 than it had been in 1945 when Korea gained independence from the Japanese), Koreans seem still to be engaged in a battle over education. In 1992, the university entra...

This article presents the experiences of three faculty members, all from the same academic program, each of whom has consulted for the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The article concludes with a fourth colleague's description of how their work for the ADB affected their own institution's academic program. It should be noted that although there were...

This article describes main consequences for higher education development in Mongolia of transitions that occurred during the first decade following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including: 1) political-from single-party rule to a multiparty democracy, based on a national constitution; from strong ideological monitoring to tolerance of plur...

This paper describes the decade of higher education reform in Mongolia beginning in 1990, as the country began transitioning from a Soviet style higher education system to one more appropriate for a rapidly emerging market economy. It highlights the political, economic, and social changes driving reform along with the accompanying challenges for Mo...

This report summarizes the activities that have been carried out during the period from April of 1998 through March of 1999 in conjunction with the Higher Education Accreditation Consultancy conducted under Asian Development Bank Loan No. 1508-MON (SF) within the scope of the "Education Sector Development Project." It describes the enabling legisla...

This paper examines the development of a general evaluation system for higher education faculty in Mongolia. During the transition from a centralized, government-controlled system to more autonomous institutions responsible for paying all salaries, universities must design new types of faculty evaluation based on more than simply the number of hour...

This article provides an overview on higher education reform in Mongolia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing upon the main elements of the most recent World Bank higher Education policy statement the authors present their analysis along the four dimensions of institutional and financial diversification, the redefinition of the role...

The presentation is a reflection on my career, following a line of inquiry on the socialization of students in higher education and its conceptual evolution from 1974 through 1997.

In countries throughout the world, there are increasing pressures to reduce the government share of costs for goods and services with high payoffs to individuals so that the limited available public funds can be used for other needs. This paper suggests several strategies for reducing government expenditures on higher education, including direct co...

It is important that any consideration of prospects for the development of higher education in Kenya be understood within the more general context of the East African region. Consequently, in the first part of this discussion I describe the economic and social development context of East Africa. Then, I draw on the more general context of the Afric...

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This study contributes to understanding of the implementation of an assessment system of the faculty members of a university. The problems involved in introducing such a system in a well established university are extremely complex. In the present case, the problems were more acute in that the assessment was to be related to career promotion and sa...

This study analyzes trends (1971-89) in academic ranks and salaries of women faculty as compared to men faculty, controlling for institutional category, in Pennsylvania's higher education institutions. The study provides new data showing that the status of academic women in terms of rank and compensation has not improved significantly as compared t...