Marketing Christian higher education in Canada: a ‘nested’ fields perspective

Tracking public opinion about online education over COVID-19 in China

“…In addition to sentiment analysis, content analysis was conducted to identify popular topics in online education-related microblogs. Content analysis has been well applied in the analysis of microblogs and online discussions on various topics, such as public transit (Casas & Delmelle, 2017 ), financial market (Li et al, 2018 ), and higher education (Pizarro Milian & Rizk, 2019 ). To provide deeper insight into how the community perceives online education in the Chinese educational landscape, especially over the period of COVID-19, microblog content was examined more closely to obtain a dynamic picture of how people reacted, and what elaborative ideas were contained in the microblogs and whether online education really remedied the urgent educational needs during the pandemic.…”

The Stratification of Universities Revisited: Status, Followers, and the Shape of National Hierarchies

“…As we are interested in the stratification of mainstream universities, and to maintain some consistency with previous work by Davies and Zarifa (2012), we applied a series of sample restrictions. First, we excluded theological seminaries (e.g., Institute for Christian Studies) or Bible colleges, which formally exist within the boundaries of Canadian university sector-since they grant degrees-but constitute their own disconnected niche of the field (Pizarro Milian & Rizk, 2019). Second, we excluded all entities that are not standalone in their structure, such as affiliated 4 or federated 5 universities.…”