Going Places: Social and Legal Aspects of International Faculty Mobility

Bunt-Kokhuis, S.G.M. van de

doi:10.1080/03797720050002198

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“…Reasons for the growing presence of international faculty mirror those documented elsewhere, including the growth of an international academic labour market, ease of international faculty mobility and the large number of international students on campuses (Altbach and Knight 2006;Van de Bunt-Kokhuis 2000). In the 2006-07 academic year, 98,239 international scholars with non-immigrant visa status were teaching and conducting research in American universities, an increase of 1.3% from the previous year (cited in Mamiseishvili and Rosser 2010, 89).…”

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Outsiders within: isolation of international faculty in an American university

Munene

2014

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

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As the internationalisation of higher education has become an important element in university global competitiveness, universities are engaged in initiatives to internationalise their curricula. Among the strategies employed to internationalise the campuses is the recruitment of highly skilled international faculty. The recruitment of such faculty is fraught with challenges of integrating and socialising the faculty into the academic ethos and social fabric of the university and community. This study presents the findings of a qualitative case study conducted on international faculty in a Southwestern university engaged in an ambitious programme of transformation into a global campus. Using embedded intergroup theory and boundary heightening as theoretical constructs, the study identifies the isolation of the faculty through excessive intrinsic careerism, collegial and community isolation, minimal professional development opportunities, and exclusionary politics of teaching and scholarship that occasionally translated into stereotypical comments, physical violence in class and offering courses that were unpopular. The study recommends enhancing opportunities for international faculty interactions, strengthening the integration practices evident in successful units, and providing staff development opportunities for both chairs and international faculty in order to boost professional and social integration of the faculty.

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Outsiders within: isolation of international faculty in an American university

Munene

2014

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

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“…Accordingly, the increasing diversification of higher education staff could put new pressure on efforts to improve academic staff group functioning (Keller, ; Young and Brooks, ). This development is driven by demographic changes (Eddy and Gaston‐Gayles, ), by the emergence of an international academic labour market (Van De Bunt‐Kokhus, ; Gappa et al ., ; Mamiseishvili and Rosser, ) and by an increasing numbers of international students (Kuznetsov and Kuznetsova, ; Kelly and Moogan, ). However, although academic staff diversity may lead to problems, these may well be possible to overcome.…”

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Academic Staff Involvement and Openness to Diversity in International Educational Organisations: Is There a Moderating Effect of Shared Language?

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Jonasson

2013

Higher Education Quarterly

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Joint work among academic staff is important for solving the ever‐increasing number of complex tasks that are becoming part of everyday activities in higher education. At the same time, diversification and internationalisation may challenge collaboration processes and communication demands. Speaking a shared language consistently could be a way of overcoming problems. Hence, this study focuses on the effect of shared language among academic staff on the relation between academic staff involvement in work processes and openness to diversity. This study draws on data from 489 Danish academic staff members in science departments of three universities. Results show positive associations between academic staff involvement and all openness‐to‐diversity variables (openness to informational, linguistic, value and visible diversity). Shared language had a positive effect on openness to surface level types of diversity (linguistic and visible) but no effect on openness to deep‐level types of diversity (informational and value).

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“…The growing presence of international faculty on American college campuses is largely accounted for by global higher education developments, such as the emergence of an international academic labor market, the ease of international faculty mobility, and large numbers of students who study abroad (Altbach 2003(Altbach , 2005(Altbach , 2006Van De Bunt-Kokhus 2000). American universities have always been a popular destination for thousands of students and scholars from all over the world.…”

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International and Citizen Faculty in the United States: An Examination of their Productivity at Research Universities

2009

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The study examined the differences between international and U.S. citizen faculty members' productivity in the areas of research, graduate and undergraduate teaching, and service at research universities in the United States. Utilizing the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04) data set, we used a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to address the primary research questions in the study. The results indicated that international faculty members were significantly more productive in research, but less productive in teaching and service than their U.S. citizen colleagues. The study can potentially aid policymakers and university administrators to not only better serve and support international faculty members but also to fully utilize them as a resource that benefits the institution and the students in all functions of their work and not just in research.

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Going Places: Social and Legal Aspects of International Faculty Mobility

Cited by 16 publications

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Outsiders within: isolation of international faculty in an American university

Outsiders within: isolation of international faculty in an American university

Academic Staff Involvement and Openness to Diversity in International Educational Organisations: Is There a Moderating Effect of Shared Language?

International and Citizen Faculty in the United States: An Examination of their Productivity at Research Universities

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