{"title":"Acculturative Stress of Asian International Students before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Menglong Cong, Yixiao Dong, Ruth Chao","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.4918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.4918","url":null,"abstract":"Acculturative stress may hamper international students' ability to succeed in the United States of America. This study analyzed the impact of a range of factors noted in the literature and compared the levels of stress they were related to before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected three waves of data (total responses = 204) via an online survey from ten universities/colleges across different regions in the United States of America. The results indicated that English proficiency and sex predicted the overall acculturative stress of Asian international students, in which higher perceived English proficiency predicted a lower perceived acculturative stress, and female Asian international students experienced higher acculturative stress than males. Also, Asian international students are experiencing more sadness during the pandemic and their peers are more discriminated against during 2020. Thus, university administrators should promote English language programs and support services (e.g., gender specific student support) to effectively address Asian students’ concerns.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":" 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140220344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Student Leadership on Chinese International Students’ Language Proficiency and Belongingness","authors":"Yuehua Zhu, Clayton Smith","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5011","url":null,"abstract":"International students, especially Chinese international students, are underrepresented in leadership roles in Canadian universities. A review of the related literature indicates that low language proficiency, lack of belongingness, and cultural difference inhibited Chinese international students’ leadership opportunities. This study adopted semi-structured, one-on-one interviews to investigate the benefits that five Chinese international student participants perceived, based on leadership roles in which they participated. The results suggest that taking student leadership roles facilitated participants’ language development at one Canadian university and enhanced their belongingness to the university. However, their participation in student leadership roles did not contribute to their belongingness to Canadian society.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":" 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140214114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Cortes-Velasco, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado
{"title":"Movilidad Estudiantil Después del Covid-19: La Percepción de las Personas a Cargo de la Internacionalización en Seis Instituciones de Educación Superior Mexicanas","authors":"Christian Cortes-Velasco, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5830","url":null,"abstract":"Como hecho social disruptivo, la pandemia por covid-19 obligó a adaptar las principales actividades de las instituciones de educación superior (IES), entre ellas se destaca la movilidad estudiantil como una de las estrategias más visibles de internacionalización. Los cambios que buscaron responder al encierro por la pandemia plantearon escenarios que, con el retorno a lo presencial, es posible valorar en cuanto a su influencia a largo plazo en las IES. Este artículo responde a la necesidad de documentar las modificaciones que se hicieron durante la pandemia y que persisten en el retorno a los planteles educativos en materia de movilidad estudiantil, particularmente sobre la función de las experiencias educativas internacionales virtuales y de la forma en que coexisten con la movilidad estudiantil física. Se condujeron entrevistas semiestructuradas a funcionarios con una participación clave en la gestión de la movilidad estudiantil (y la internacionalización) durante la pandemia. Los funcionarios pertenecen a seis IES—tres públicas y tres privadas—que se caracterizan por tener un volumen considerable de movilidad estudiantil. Se analiza lo que se llamó “movilidad virtual” y su pertinencia para describir los cambios experimentados. Además, se discute sobre los procesos de adaptación y la forma en que las IES integran la virtualidad como un medio más de internacionalización que complementa, pero no sustituye, la movilidad estudiantil física.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140217420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denise Blum, Juan P. De Armas Victores, Amauri Batista Salvado
{"title":"Cuba y la Pandemia de 2020: El Rol de la Educación Superior Cubana Respecto al Cumplimiento de los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible","authors":"Denise Blum, Juan P. De Armas Victores, Amauri Batista Salvado","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5465","url":null,"abstract":"Este informe analiza el contexto de la educación superior cubana durante la pandemia COVID-19, así como, la necesaria reestructuración y rediseño de estrategias, en función de la planificación, alineando los indicadores y metas con los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030. En ese sentido, se presenta el análisis del rol del Ministerio de Educación Superior de Cuba, como organismo de la administración central del estado en el desempeño de dichos objetivos, fundamentándolo en las contribuciones realizadas por las universidades cubanas en la observancia de los ODS.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":" 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140215712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Marcelin, Toni Cela, Mario Da Silva Fidalgo, Christopher Zuraik
{"title":"Higher Education, Human Development and Growing Inequality in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Haiti","authors":"L. Marcelin, Toni Cela, Mario Da Silva Fidalgo, Christopher Zuraik","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5594","url":null,"abstract":"For almost four decades, Haiti has been engaged in the tenuous process of democratization, exacerbated by political, economic, social, climate, and more recently the COVID-19 crises. With each crisis, efforts are made to reimagine national development and revitalize the public sphere, with limited success. Yet, largely absent from these debates is the higher education sector. We argue that the neglect of higher education since Haiti’s transition from dictatorship to democracy is a result of the nation’s failure to articulate a clear vision for the sector. In this article, we ask: How has the failure to articulate a clear purpose for the higher education sector in Haiti exacerbated the country’s systemic crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic? In order to answer this question, we provide a sociohistorical examination of the role of power and politics in Haitian higher education beginning in its founding in the 19th century culminating at the time of the pandemic. We explore how the absence of a strategic vision for higher education institutions in Haiti and ad-hoc neoliberal policies have impacted the professoriate and students while impeding the sector’s potential contributions to society in a time characterized by systemic and uninterrupted crises including the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140214301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HESA Graduate Students’ International Involvements and Civic Engagement","authors":"Snejana Slantcheva-Durst","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i1.5110","url":null,"abstract":"This study maps the types of international involvement opportunities available to HESA: Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate students in the U.S.A., as seen through the eyes of the students, and analyzes the impact of these students’ diverse international involvements on their orientation towards social responsibility. The study follows a survey research design. The study’s results indicate low levels of international exposure amongst HESA graduate students across diverse programs, and moderate rates of orientation towards civic responsibility. HESA students’ orientation towards social responsibility can successfully be predicted by a combination of five variables, three of which represent curricular and co-curricular environmental engagements: listening to an international speaker, discussing the ways the U.S. higher education links to the rest of the world, and attending presentations of study abroad students. The findings aim to inform program directors and faculty on existing opportunities for international exposure, on the rate of student involvements in them, as well on the importance of international exposures for their students’ future professional preparation.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140220181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of International Branch Campuses in Korea and Japan: Exploring Success Factors","authors":"Kyuseok Kim, Yiru Ke","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5901","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a comparative analysis of the evolution of International Branch Campuses (IBCs) in South Korea and Japan, utilizing the conceptual framework proposed by Hickey and Davies (2022). The methodology includes the modified grounded theory approach (M-GTA) and interviews with over twenty leaders and executives working at IBCs in both countries. Preliminary findings highlight the importance of persistent collaboration among stakeholders, a strong commitment from the home campus, effective communication, trust-building, diversified enrollment pipelines, and strategies to mitigate regulatory challenges for the success of IBCs. Furthermore, entrepreneurial leadership, international education prioritization, cross-cultural understanding, tailored programs, and diverse hires are crucial for maintaining academic standards and building institutional capacity. This research contributes to comparative and international higher education by elucidating the factors influencing the success and sustainability of IBCs in the context of evolving higher education landscapes in South Korea and Japan. ","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":"40 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140267545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"White International Graduate Students and Whiteness","authors":"Michaela Dengg","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5706","url":null,"abstract":"This emerging scholar’s piece explores the construct of whiteness and how it both shapes the experiences of white international graduate students in the United States as well as how they enact whiteness themselves. This dissertation study seeks not to recenter whiteness in scholarship, but to name and disrupt it in relation to a scarcely researched student population, namely white international graduate students. By way of a Post-Intentional Phenomenology grounded in Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), the study interrogates prevalent power structures in international higher education grounded in whiteness in addition to exploring the role white international students play in it.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":"7 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140268035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student Perspectives of Global Citizenship within a Virtual Exchange","authors":"Gregory Weaver","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5567","url":null,"abstract":"Higher education internationalization has become an increasingly challenging endeavor. The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policies have called for a need to reexamine how universities internationalize. Transnational virtual classrooms or virtual exchanges have been shown to provide students with a more equal opportunity to develop their global competencies and cultural skills than study abroad. Traditional internationalization methods may no longer be as effective as they have been in the past, creating a need to reconceptualize how we educate college students for global competencies. This research in-progress summarizes a portion of a dissertation. The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate global citizenship student awareness in a virtual exchange. This study presents preliminary findings of their experiences; applied global citizenship and virtual exchange as a channel. ","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140267418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stressors and Solutions: A Preliminary Examination of Acculturative Stress among International Students.","authors":"Thu Thi-Kim Le, Thi Thu Huyen-Nguyen","doi":"10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v15i5(s).5838","url":null,"abstract":"Despite ample literature regarding acculturative stress among international students, there is a gap in the literature synthesizing the sources of acculturative stress and the coping strategies that can help international students to deal with acculturative stress. In this systematic literature review, we aim to investigate the current state of acculturative stress among international students, through empirical research published in peer-reviewed journals between the years 2018 and 2022. Using a predetermined review protocol, this review analyzed 66 publications on acculturative stress for international students. These studies were mainly published in 2021 in the Journal of International Students. The preliminary findings provide a comprehensive range of sources for acculturative stress that can be broken down into four levels: Macro (socio-economic factors from both home and host countries or national level), Meso (institutional factors), Micro (individual, personal, or psychosocial factors). Drawn upon the sources of acculturative stress, international students are expected to reduce acculturative stress by improving their English proficiency, practicing self-compassion, adopting a positive perspective, adjusting expectations and perfectionism, attending serious leisure engagement, and seeking social support. The findings from this review will be used to help policy makers and university leaders and managers to better optimize their resources to improve international students’ acculturation experience and enhance the overall higher education system.","PeriodicalId":273956,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education","volume":"28 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140267428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}