The Effects of Private Higher Education Worldwide
Funder: SSHRC
Years: 2018-2022
Over the past three decades, there has been an exponential growth in the number of private higher education institutions worldwide, but little cross-national research has empirically investigated the extent to which private HE has expanded access to HE overall, or whether it has exacerbated inequalities in access to HE cross-nationally. This four-year project is creating a unique cross-national longitudinal dataset spanning 1960–2015, to empirically examine the link between private HE expansion, access to HE, and wealth-based inequalities in HE enrollment rates.
Internationalization Discourse in Comparative Perspective
2018-2019
Now more than ever, higher education is being tasked with educating future generations for an increasingly globalized world. Internationalization, which includes attracting international students and faculty, promoting faculty exchange and research collaborations, establishing branch campuses, and integrating international or intercultural knowledge into the curriculum, among other activities, has rapidly become an institutional priority for colleges and universities around the world. With a team of graduate students, I am compiling a set of institutional and national strategies for internationalization, and then code them to better understand institutions’ priority activities, rationales and justifications for internationalization and factors associated with variation.
In 2017, China, India and South Korea were the top three source countries of international students to Canada, reaching respectively 28%, 25% and 5% of the total number of international students (58% of all international students in the country) (CBIE 2018). All three groups have been racialized in specific ways as Asian international students in Canada live at the intersection of their migratory and ethnic profile. This pan-Canadian study investigates how Asian international students are racialized on Canadian university campuses, focusing on their experiences on and off campuses.