Emoscapes and commercial university rankers: the role of affect in global higher education policy

Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Sonneveldt, Erin L.; Estera, Annabelle; Bae, So-Hyeon

doi:10.1080/17508487.2020.1748078

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“…As this approach showed, however, exterior ranking systems were not the only way to approach ranking. Indeed, the spread of the World Wide Web provided institutions with an opportunity to improve their own outlook through fair assessment by putting the power of ranking in the hands of the consumer and following the standard approach (Trostyanskaya & Polikhina, 2018;Jarocka, 2015;Muiruri, 2017;Mukhwana et al, 2016;Meredith, 2018;Tosun, 2019;Shahjahan et al, 2020;Trinidad et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

SEM Model Analysis on the Effect of Antecedents of the University of Nairobi and Jiangsu University’s Academic Quality within the Higher Education Institutions

Thige¹,

Li²,

William³

et al. 2021

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This study is guided specific errand on a dissimilar dataset as in previous study but integrated in way of objective and approach. The study harmonizes the structural estimations concocted in previous studies concerning the impact, relations and associations of and/or amid the five main parameters to and/or amid the academic quality while addressing assortments of micro but different objectives under this errand. Since the previous studies aimed at explicating the comparative significance, directions and correlational characteristics of UJS & UON's, the current study as partly an extrapolation for this: 1) does robustness diagnostics for the impacts and directions identified towards academic quality in previous study as well as affirming the consistency of the result; 2) innovatively implicates anew objective of the study when the paired homologous structural departments are implicated into the mediation and moderation relation effects, and how the integrative change the academic quality of their respective universities; 3) thirdly, the study integrates into new objective when their inter-correlational and analogous comparison is made to identify their temporal similarities and differences while addressing the gap and variance for academic development policy formulation.

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confidence: 99%

SEM Model Analysis on the Effect of Antecedents of the University of Nairobi and Jiangsu University’s Academic Quality within the Higher Education Institutions

Thige¹,

Li²,

William³

et al. 2021

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“…It is important to locate research in underrepresented geographical areas in the literature because they tell us something about the complete picture of international higher education. Despite the problematic nature of using university ranking systems to signify global importance (Shahjahan et al, 2020), Swiss universities have nevertheless been consistently ranked among the top universities in these rankings. These rankings signal Switzerland's desirability as a host country on the global stage and demonstrate that it continues to be a hub of international academic mobility (Q.S.…”

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“…However, the literature on internationalization often does not explain the differences and relations between 'sending' and 'receiving' countries, nor does it account for the heterogeneity within countries; international students may or may not face similar challenges in their home countries, resulting in experiences of exclusion and nonbelonging in their newfound surroundings. Positive educational experiences matter for students and professors at the individual and collective levels; the emotional landscape of universities can be a positive or negative influence on knowledge sharing and production practices (Shahjahan et al, 2020).…”

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Racial Unspeakability

Hernandez¹

2021

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Increasing diversity in international student mobility/migration has gained attention in recent years (Bilecen & Van Mol, 2017). Diversity in international higher education institutions has primarily been understood in terms of diversity of national origin, meaning the dynamics of racial and ethnic differences are not adequately addressed in the literature (Estera & Shahjahan, 2018). This study uses data collected during semi-structured interviews with international and domestic students, as well as administrators, to identify narrations of race, ethnicity, and nationality that delimit a modern/colonial global imaginary (Stein & Andreotti, 2017). It further demonstrates that internal heterogeneity of both sending and receiving countries leads to varied meaning-making schemes for engaging with embodied racial differences and their attendant affective relations (Ahmed, 2013; Wetherell, 2012). The project suggests the term racial unspeakability as a culturally contingent, affective force that governs narrations of race, ethnicity, and nationality.

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“…Criticism spans from noting that "rankings apply a combination of indicators that might not represent universities' particular missions, and often overlook societal impact or teaching quality" [34], through another finding that "QS and THE manipulate affect like fear, anxiety, mutuality, assurance, and so on to mobilize policy perpetuating the idea of rankers as authority" [38] in a global higher education market in which commercial rankers "by means of periodic yearly publication, construct the reputation for excellence as a scarce resource which universities are expected to compete for" [39].…”

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Purposeful Evaluation of Scholarship in the Open Science Era

Pagliaro

2021

Challenges

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In most of the world’s countries, scholarship evaluation for tenure and promotion continues to rely on conventional criteria of publications in journals of high impact factor and achievements in securing research funds. Continuing to hire and promote scholars based on these criteria exposes universities to risk because students, directly and indirectly through government funds, are the main source of revenues for academic institutions. At the same time, talented young researchers increasingly look for professors renowned for excellence in mentoring doctoral students and early career researchers. Purposeful scholarship evaluation in the open science era needs to include all three areas of scholarly activity: research, teaching and mentoring, and service to society.

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Emoscapes and commercial university rankers: the role of affect in global higher education policy

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

SEM Model Analysis on the Effect of Antecedents of the University of Nairobi and Jiangsu University’s Academic Quality within the Higher Education Institutions

SEM Model Analysis on the Effect of Antecedents of the University of Nairobi and Jiangsu University’s Academic Quality within the Higher Education Institutions

Racial Unspeakability

Purposeful Evaluation of Scholarship in the Open Science Era

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