Higher education institutions (HEIs) in the context of neoliberal globalization currently face fierce competition and enormous financial burdens. To address financial distress and generate revenue, more and more HEIs embrace market-like strategies to attract international students, extending academic capitalism to global higher education. For…

The interconnected nature of today's world continues to permeate most aspects of modern life. Known as globalization, countries, economies, and people are all closer than ever before given increases in technology, innovation, and capital. These external pressures of globalization meet higher education in a process known as…

This study examines Chinese educators' perceptions of effective leadership behaviors in order to determine how teachers in Chinese higher education define effectiveness and whether there is a correlation between this perception and leaders' gender. Factors considered included conscious and unconscious gender bias, Chinese culture, historical…

The current state of education focusing on standards and assessment, according to Wu (2004), reduces education to "technical problems and individual deficiencies, subject to surveillance and quality managerial procedures" (p. 308). This work uses Foucault's discourses of discipline and power to understand standardization as a political…

Internationalization of higher education is a major characteristic of China's higher education policy. Accordingly, the Chinese government is fervently encouraging the spread of Chinese language and culture through Confucius Institutes, student exchange programs, recruitment of international students, and international collaborations. South Asia…