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International Students and Employability from perspectives of the Global South
This book chapter examines the impetus for change that stems from educational borrowing and examines the influences that educational borrowing has had on this understudied Sector of tertiary education. The book chapter examines (1) what current educational borrowing practices are reforming the College Sector and (2) how do the narratives of neo-lib...
This chapter provides examples of how U.S. higher education institutions can strategically plan to offer culturally responsive campus-wide support services to serve international students holistically. Nationwide, international student offices excel in immigration law compliance support, yet culturally responsive service models campus-wide are spar...
Introduction to JCIHE 15(5) 2023 Issue Rosalind Latiner Raby Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education California State University, Northridge *Corresponding author: Email: rabyrl@aol.com
This article conducts a bibliometric approach to present a macro view of broader themes found in publications on community college/TVET education in the United States and abroad. A total of 340 publications were identified and analyzed to show that international programming thrives in the field of community college and TVET education abroad. Abstra...
This chapter explores the variations in employability concepts as applied to international students. It highlights the fact that international students are a diverse population with different mobility experiences and employability outcomes. It also sheds light on the fact that students from the same country may not have a common study abroad or emp...
Internationalization, along with its goals and outcomes is constantly evolving. Intended objectives and actions of internationalization are multifaceted and complex, are widely represented in research, and are the focus of international discourse. Intent is dependent on the aims of actors who put internationalization goals and outcomes into place a...
The Sustainable Development Goals link access to higher education, particularly for non-traditional populations, as a way to fight poverty and ensure prosperity. This article examines the experiences of several under-researched categories of non-traditional students who attend Community Colleges and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET...
Objective: This article explores entrepreneurial leadership behavior from the vantage point of mid- and senior-level administrators who lead international education initiatives at U.S. community colleges. Administrators’ choices are examined to understand how they develop and use strategies for targeted problem solving within their institutional co...
This article provides critical commentary on the invisibilization of the over 150 institutions that exist within in the Community College and Global Equivalent sector. The inconsistency in how the sector is publicly portrayed leads to a constant need for justification of the sector’s existence, worth, and impact that it makes to the field of higher...
I am pleased to share Volume 14, Issue 2, 2022 of the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education (JCIHE). In this current issue JCIHE is honored to publish articles of higher education on the following countries: Azerbaijan, Barbados, Canada, China, Hungary, Iraq, Tajikistan, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States. JCIHE publishes...
In the 1947 Truman Commission, Zook noted a validation of international education for US community colleges and specified two recommendations for the internationalization of US community colleges. The first recommendation was to embrace internationalization in the curriculum, and the second was to create an educational context in which students cou...
In 2020, United States (U.S.) community colleges had to swiftly make changes to educational programs and alter teaching mobilities as a response to COVID-19 that profoundly impacted international education. Yet, the pandemic also created a moment in time that, like other disasters, offered a chance to rethink current practices to create institution...
Even though the importance of technical and vocational education is acknowledged in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the university sector has dominated the discourse on the role of postsecondary educational institutions in sustainability. This comparative study widens the scope by highlighting contrib...
This article learns from student voices about how their education abroad experiences was shaped by their agency. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with 22 United States community college and university students and with United States faculty and United Kingdom senior staff who worked at a study abroad Center in London. The study focuses on...
In the United States, about 36% of all community colleges offer international student programs, of which, about 13% also offer education abroad programs (Malveaux & Raby, 2019). Documentation on community college international education has existed since the 1950s. Advocacy for community college international education is also not new and is found...
Senior international officers (SIOs) serve as catalysts for change in a volatile higher education environment. AIEA's 2017 SIO Survey indicates that entrepreneurship and creativity are among the top personal characteristics valued in SIOs, along with the ability to attract financial resources. This occasional paper explores how SIOs engage in entre...
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This book presents a showcase of discussions and critical perspectives about Nepalese higher education. Its chapters cover topics such as the impacts of local sociopolitical changes and global forces on public and private education, emerging online and distance education, administrative and intellectual leadership, quality assessment, gradu...
This chapter creates a mapping of theories found in the literature on international students published from 2009–2019 to show what has existed in the field. The purpose of this research is to chart theoretical constructs used to interpret international students and to categorize current research with the intent to analyze trends on those who are st...
This study explores the extent to which community college study abroad is exclusive, meaning that opportunities are restricted only to certain students, or inclusive, meaning that education abroad is available to all that express interest. We administered a survey collecting both quantitative and qualitative data to leaders in community college edu...
In this chapter, we explore the tension between the changes in Nepalese higher education prompted by macro-level political and economic shifts on the one hand and, on the other hand, the tendency of other cultural, political, and socioeconomic reasons to stagnate structural change in education. From the autocratic Rana regime (1846-1951) to the ult...
Position training and succession planning are important for aspiring senior community college leaders and for university senior international educators. While mid-level administrators are targeted as future candidates, the mid-level position of community college international educational leader as an important administrator function is not included...
There has been a good deal already written about health and safety with education abroad at four-year colleges and universities. Although the authors found significant publications with a university focus, they found no published literature that specifically addresses community college overseas health, safety, and legal issues. The purpose of this...
Community college literature uses three distinct narratives to explain why few community colleges offer education abroad and why limited numbers of community college students study abroad. This chapter explores the viability of these narratives and counters them by showing that non-traditional community college students understand the role of educa...
Higher education massification has broadened access to universities throughout the world. However, admission remains highly competitive. Alternative institutions emerged in each country to provide opportunities that would otherwise not exist. These institutions share specific commonalities and are seen as a unique higher educational sector. The Com...
This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission. These complexities represent emerging and evolving phenomena that impact the institutions’ ability to a) serve students; b) offer sound curricula; c) admit and retain students; d) increase comple...
This introduction introduces the thematic organization of the chapters included in the Vol. 1. These chapters are organized thematically to provide a foundation and context for understanding the sector of community colleges and global counterparts. Within each theme are examples of institutions in this sector from throughout the world.
This chapter profiles a program that uses online simulation to internationalize the community college curriculum. For the past two decades the International Negotiation Modules Project (INMP) has had a particular effect on the construction of knowledge for community college students who often need nontraditional approaches to learning for their suc...
This chapter compares the role of institutional and national completion agendas at community colleges and global counterparts around the world.
Volume 1 focuses on characteristics of institutions in the community college and global counterpart sector that makes them distinct from other higher educational institutions. It includes four subsections: (a) “Globalization: Mission, Market Commodity, and the Philosophical Role”; (b) “Institutional and Cultural Adaptations”; (c) “Theories on Achie...
This article is a comparative study of community colleges and global counterparts at 41 institutions in 25 countries. Policies from each country link completion of a college program to career entry and to advancement opportunities. National and institutional policies are being defined, benchmark data is being collected on goals in the process, and...
The vast majority of US community college students enroll in educational programs to advance a career pathway that often has labor market value. Most of these programs are terminal and hence, the only opportunity that a student has to gain international knowledge is during studies at the community college. International education is not new to US c...
International educational programs play a key role in providing the skills needed for a competitive, globally competent workforce and for a citizenry who are cultured, transformative, and empowered to support reform at the local and global level. This educational focus was mentioned as a key role for community colleges in the 1947 Truman Commission...
Despite no community college association ever officially opposing international students programs, for decades, anti-internationalists remain vocal in claiming that international students do not support the local mission of the community college, that international students take seats away from resident students, and that there are limited benefits...
The percentage of community college students who complete a program to earn a degree or certificate is less than 50 % and the time it takes most community college students to complete their program is generally longer than three years (AACC 2015). Research shows that when specific programmatic changes are introduced to the community college environ...
This book brings together distinguished scholars, community college practitioners, and emerging leaders to expand upon existing theories, provide reflection on practice, and demonstrate the dynamic nature of community college internationalization. There is a special challenge for United States community colleges to move from selected international...
The paper presents methods for assessing economic, resource and environmental efficiency of energy supply systems and ways of its improvement, the main of which are the development of cogeneration and renewable energy sources (RES). The problem of allocating fuel and financial costs in the case of the combined production is solved. The methods allo...
Alternatives to the traditional four-year public and private university include a sector of higher education that offers a more advanced curriculum than secondary school and serves as a local and often lower-cost pathway that gives options for university overflow for adult learners, displaced workers, life-long learners, workforce learners, develop...
The nonprofit consortium California Colleges for International Education (CCIE) is a working example of how a formal association involving community colleges uses collaboration to achieve a fundamental goal of increasing student awareness of international issues through study abroad programs. For over 30 years, CCIE members have worked together to...
The aim of this research is to explore whether participation in study abroad by community college students impacts levels of engagement and if there is a connection between studying abroad and academic achievement. While university-level studies have a history in exploring these questions, the same is not true for community colleges. The California...
This chapter profiles a program that uses online simulation to internationalize the community college curriculum. For the past two decades the International Negotiation Modules Project (INMP) has had a particular effect on the construction of knowledge for community college students who often need nontraditional approaches to learning for their suc...
In the United States, over 1,200 publically supported community colleges provide low-cost education and training for some 13 million students. Counterparts exist in some 80 countries around the world, variously known as polytechnics, colleges of further education, and TAFE (Technical and Further Education), among other terms. In many countries, the...
Since 1971, scholarship on community college global counterparts has documented the nuances of these institutions and charted their similarities to one another. The purpose of this article is to detail the first three decades of community college global-counterpart scholarship from 1971–2001. Within each decade there exists scholarship that corresp...
United States community college students face numerous barriers both externally and internally that impede overall success. There are noted interventions that when employed by the college, have a greater chance of leading students to increased persistence (finishing the term) and completion (finishing their academic/professional program). Education...
International education has been and remains on the periphery for community colleges. Despite over four decades of policy and exemplary practices, internationalization is not part of contemporary discourse for leadership training programs, nor a component of college-level action items. It is difficult to convince educational leaders that internatio...
This chapter examines the complex dimensions of the role of community college global counterparts in the context of higher educational global flows. Data from a comparative literature review that covers over 40 years, explores "who" has been involved in the borrowing process, the variations of the "types" of borrowing that exist in terms of depende...
In an era of financial constraint, this article gives attention to the role of ‘community college global counterparts’ by comparing colleges of further education in the UK with community colleges in the US. It points to similarities between the two and the ways in which budgetary constraints impact on them – and, in particular, on access opportunit...
The International Negotiation Modules Project (INMP) uses the International Communications and Negotiations Simulations (ICONS) computer-assisted simulation as a tool to enhance learning and teaching strategies about international issues and negotiations across the community college curriculum. Simulation in this context is more than merely playing...
Although community colleges are called by various names around the world, they all tend to serve as an alternative pathway that offers options for university overflow, adult learners, displaced workers, bright students from low-income families, and therefore, a “second chance” for nontraditional students to gain a basic education that accommodates...
For the first time in history, there is an acute demand for higher education accountability spurred on by increased costs, student request for program relevancy, and accrediting agencies pressure from government to improve and monitor higher education. In the form of budget performance measures, it increasingly commands the attention of community c...
Community colleges now function in an era of extraordinary global sociopolitical, economic, and communications connectivity. Intellectual capital, workforce effectiveness and productivity are valued. Hence, community colleges and their global counterparts have become a key vehicle of economic development and for educating their residents across cul...
Globalization is not a local phenomenon, but a condition that impacts every aspect of our lives worldwide. As a dynamic force, globalization perpetuates a borderless world where practices and ideas are shared across space and time, aided by technology, wide mobility, communication, so-cioeconomic relationships, and environmental interdependence. Si...
Globalization serves as the impetus for sociopolitical and economic change. As a dynamic force, globalization perpetuates
a borderless world where practices and ideas are shared across space and time aided by technology, mobility, communication,
socioeconomic relationships, and environmental interdependence. As an identified concept, globalization...
Despite recent advances for countries to offer compulsory secondary education, traditional universities have not altered their structure to respond to the social demands for higher education. University admittance remains limited and therefore highly competitive. Fifteen years ago, Cerych (1993, p. 5) noted that “the existence of a recognized alter...