International Academic Staff

Author : Maria Yudkevich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134857667
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Faculty in Higher Education written by Maria Yudkevich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an interconnected and globally competitive environment, faculty mobility across countries has become widespread, yet is little understood. Grounded in qualitative methodology, this volume offers a cutting-edge examination of internationally mobile academics today and explores the approaches and strategies that institutions pursue to recruit and integrate international teachers and scholars into local universities. Providing a range of research-based insights from case studies in key countries, this resource offers higher education scholars and administrators a comparative perspective, helping to explain the impact that international faculty have on the local university, as well as issues of retention, promotion, salaries, and the challenges faced by these internationally mobile academics.

Author : Kendall Richards
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303158760X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Academic Staff written by Kendall Richards and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris R. Glass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000418219
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experiences of International Faculty in Institutions of Higher Education written by Chris R. Glass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the growing need for recruitment and retention of international talent in higher education institutions globally, this volume documents the experiences and contribution of international graduate students, researchers, and faculty. This text foregrounds perspectives around recruitment, transition, integration, professional development, and the retention of scholars originating from, or arriving in, countries including China, Australia, Iraq, Japan, and the US. By investigating the support systems that are in place to assist foreign-born faculty members in institutes of higher education, the text provides important insights for departments and institutions as they look to successfully attract and retain global academic talent. Moreover, the scientific and practical implications of the research presented in the text directly informs institutional policy, working towards more effective, inclusive, and equitable ways to support international faculty. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, international and comparative education, and, more specifically, those involved with faculty development programs. The text will also support further discussion and reflection around multicultural education, international teaching and learning, and educational policy more broadly.

Author : Maria Yudkevich
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438457278
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century written by Maria Yudkevich and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation. Young faculty are the future of academia, yet without attractive career paths for young academics, the future of the university is bleak. Featuring case studies from Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, and the United States, Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to analyze issues facing early-career higher education faculty in an international context. The contributors discuss how young academics are affected by contracts, salaries, the structure of careers, and institutional conditions. The analyses cover the full spectrum of the academic profession, including part-time jobs and short-term contracts, both in public and private institutions. The book also addresses what universities must do in order to attract young, qualified candidates.

Author : Futao Huang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813349808
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Faculty in Asia written by Futao Huang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key aspects of the personal, educational and professional characteristics of international faculty members, their work roles and challenges they face in Asia and the Pacific, compared to those from Europe and the United States. It focuses on globalization of the academic profession and provides a more comprehensive analysis of an overall portrait of international faulty members at work in various higher education systems.

Author : Jürgen Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313074097
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Staff in Europe written by Jürgen Enders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by J^Durgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of academic staff in fourteen European countries. All countries in the study have seen changes regarding the actors and procedures relevant for the regulation of the employment relationships of academic staff. Academic staff are higher education's most important asset and most costly resource. Employment and working conditions of academic staff are, therefore, not only influenced by these developments but seen as an important tool for adaptation to the new circumstances higher education faces. Thus it is not only of interest to demonstrate and compare variations across and within countries, but also to analyze the outcomes of the changing academic environment on the academic labor market and the conditions of working life.

Author : Eunice Okorocha
Publisher : Abramis
ISBN 13 : 9781845494582
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working with International Students in Higher Education written by Eunice Okorocha and published by Abramis. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Dr Eunice Okorocha, completed her PhD research at the Department of Educational Studies of Surrey University, England. She is the author of: Supervising International Research Students (SRHE 1997 and 2007), Crossing Cultures (Transfiguration Press 2004), Cultural Issues in Working with International Students (Abramis Academic Publishing, UK 2010), Counselling International Students (Abramis 2010) and International Students' Experience in UK Higher Education (Abramis 2010). Working with International Students in Higher Education is a research based summary of the views of academic and non academic staff that work with International Students. Amongst those interviewed were academic staff including Personal Tutors and Supervisors, accommodation staff, Chaplains, English language staff, Library staff, International Students Officers, Welfare Officers, and a Student Union Officer. The staff interviewed all identified the academic, cultural, social, religious, language and communication difficulties faced by International Students as well as exposing issues that create barriers in working with them.Based on the experiences of those interviewed, the author makes recommendations to Higher education Staff, especially to Personal Tutors, Supervisors, Heads of Departments and Institutional Management. These recommendations are made with a view to providing a better understanding of what is involved in working with Students from other cultures and academic systems, and are aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the staff that work with them.

Author : Philip G. Altbach
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Academic Profession written by Philip G. Altbach and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the academic profession in 14 nations was based on responses received from an international survey of nearly 20,000 college and university faculty members from Australia, Brazil, Chile, England, West Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, and the United States. Data were analyzed and portraits, including more than 300 tables and charts, were prepared by researchers and scholars in the respective countries. After a foreword by Ernest L. Boyer, chapters include: "The Academic Profession in International Perspective" (Philip G. Altbach and Lionel S. Lewis); "The Australian Academic Profession" (Barry A. Sheehan and Anthony R. Welch); "The Academic Profession in Korea" (Sungho H. Lee); "The Academic Profession in Japan" (Akira Arimoto); "The Future of the Hong Kong Academic Profession" (Gerard A. Postiglione); "The Academic Profession in Brazil" (Simon Schwartzman and Elizabeth Balbachevsky); "The Chilean Academic Profession: Six Policy Issues" (Ernesto Schiefelbein); "The Mexican Academic Profession" (Manuel Gil Anton); "The American Academic Profession" (J. Eugene Haas); "The Academic Profession in England on the Eve of Structural Reform" (Oliver Fulton); "The Academic Profession in Germany (Jurgen Enders and Ulrich Teichler); "The Dutch Professoriate" (Peter A. Geurts and others); "The Academic Profession in Sweden" (Goran Blomqvist, Hans Jalling, and Karsten Lundeqvist); "The Academic Profession in Russia" (Brian L. Levin-Stankevich and Alexander Savelyev); and "The Academic Profession in Israel: Continuity and Transformation" (Michael Chen and others). Appendices include: "The International Survey of the Academic Profession, 1991-1993: Methodological Notes" (Mary Jean Whitelaw); a list of members of the research team; and a copy of the survey instrument. (Contains extensive reference notes.) (CH)

Author : Mike Byram
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443808369
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Students, Staff and Academic Mobility in Higher Education written by Mike Byram and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic mobility in higher education is an old phenomenon, but it has become a high profile issue as the numbers of students and staff engaged, and the number of countries involved, has increased hugely in the last few decades. For this reason and many others – political, cultural and educational – this book reports research on the many facets of the experience and people involved, both now and in the past. The emphasis in research has so far tended to focus on contemporary student mobility but this collection deliberately includes articles on mobile staff, because the question of mobility is a matter for universities and higher education in its entirety and not just a matter of bringing new students into existing and unchanging lectures, laboratories and seminars. Despite the fact that universities are and have been international institutions in their composition from the beginning, universities became in the 19th and 20th century de facto national institutions. This has changed and continues to change in the 21st century, for many reasons, but often financial, as universities seek to enhance their budgets in a globalised economy, and students seek to enhance their employment chances by acquiring qualifications with a difference. However, even if the starting point is financial, nonetheless the chapters in this book demonstrate that the effects of mobility are much more far-reaching. The effects are on host universities, on the university community of staff and students, on the ways in which staff and students understand the nature of university study, on the ways students may or may not integrate with a local community. By experiencing something different—for institutions, an influx of students with different ideas about academic study, for students an interaction with ‘locals’ and with other ‘internationals’, for staff a challenge to their assumptions about teaching and learning—all see themselves in a new light and are often forced to change. This book charts the changes which are happening now and will undoubtedly continue for the foreseeable future. It therefore offers all involved a reflection on their own experience and practice and the means of improving them.

Author : Martin , Elaine
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033519883X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Academic Work written by Martin , Elaine and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education has changed enormously in recent years. For instance, it now serves a more diverse range of students and is under closer government scrutiny and control. There is consequently a significant number of academics who are uneasy with current values and practices and who work with them reluctantly. Universities may speak publicly of efficiency and effectiveness but they cannot function successfully if their academic staff are disillusioned. Changing Academic Work explores the competing tensions in contemporary work: the need to balance individualism with collaboration; accountability with reward; a valuing of the past with preparation for the future. The aim is to help staff build a contemporary university which is as much a learning organization as an organization about learning. Elaine Martin develops a set of simple but sound principles to guide academic work and, through case study material, she provides engaging and convincing illustrations of these principles in action. She offers insight and guidance for academic staff at all levels who wish to make their working environment more satisfying and productive.