International Higher Education

Demagogues and Democracy – It Can't Happen Here?

John Aubrey Douglass
2019

What is the fate of Hong Kong’s universities under Xi?

Bryan Edward Penprase
John Aubrey Douglass
2021

Like Peas in a Pod – How Trump and Bolsonaro Attack Science and Democracy

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

A Bolsonaro defeat will not fully undo his damage to Brazilian science

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

What’s New About Neo-Nationalism, Anyway?

John Aubrey Douglass
2021

Universities in Russia face a dramatic turning point

John Aubrey Douglass
Igor Chirikov
2022

SERU Research Report on Graduate Student Experiences in Japan

Lilan Chen
Akari Kikuchi
Yuichiro Wajima
Tatsuo Kawashima
2024

Given the perceived imbalance in resource allocation and the recognized disparities in degree completion rates across academic disciplines in Japan's higher education system, this study explores the perceptions and experiences of graduate students through a comparison between graduate students in Humanities and Social Sciences and those in Sciences and Engineering. Osaka University has been chosen as the case study because it is one of the former empirical and research-intensive universities located in the international city of Osaka, Japan, which is well-known as one of the most DEI-...

The Revolution of the Dons, Cambridge and Society in Victorian England by Sheldon Rothblatt (1968)

Sheldon Rothblatt
1968

This sensitive and lively 1968 history made an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between higher education and social change in nineteenth-century England, showing how the internal life of an ancient university was affected by historic events extrinsic to it. The role that university was required to play in society was being forced to evolve: no longer a finishing school for the aristocracy, universities were becoming a place of professional training for the middle classes. This required a new generation of dons to relate tradition to the ideals of the...

Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats and the Future of Higher Education

John Aubrey Douglass

The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today’s right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are threatening higher education.

Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics and international relations: a populist...

Openness and Globalization in Higher Education: The Age of the Internet, Terrorism, and Opportunity

Charles M. Vest
2006

Charles Vest gave the second of three Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society on April 21, 2005 on the Santa Barbara campus. The Age of the Internet presents remarkable opportunities for higher education and research in the United States and throughout the world. The rise of a meta-university of globally shared teaching materials and scholarly archives, undergirding campuses everywhere, both rich and poor, could well be a dominant, democratizing aspect of the next few decades. Even as we develop the meta-university and other forms of digitally empowered...