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THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION:
A CASE STUDY OF A NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY IN AN EMERGING MUNICIPALITY IN SOUTHWEST CHINA
by
Xin Jiang
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Xin Jiang
Object Description
| Title | The internationalization of higher education in an era of globalization: a case study of a national research university in an emerging municipality in southwest China |
| Author | Jiang, Xin |
| Author email | janetjx@gmail.com;janetjx@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-06-06 |
| Date submitted | 2012-07-10 |
| Date approved | 2012-07-10 |
| Restricted until | 2012-07-10 |
| Date published | 2012-07-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Robison, Mark P. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Diamond, Mike Hentschke , Guilbert C. |
| Abstract | With their increasing engagement in the global economy, Chinese higher education institutions are striving for producing educated and trained graduates to enhance the country’s global competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy (Chan & Lo, 2008). Internationalization is then regarded as a response to the challenges issued by globalization and is conceived as a way for active Chinese universities’ agency to further their research, teaching and service functions to compete with foreign rivals. However, the regional disparities in Chinese higher education development and national policies that concentrate its financial support on top-tier research universities result in an increasing gap among Chinese higher education institutions in their internationalization development. ❧ This study analyzed the dynamics of internationalization of Chongqing University, a national research university located in Southwest China, where higher education development status and potential significantly lag behind average. A case study was conducted at Chongqing University to examine the rationales and strategies for its internationalization, and to identify the remaining work needed to be done to reach its future internationalization goal. This study answered the following research questions: What rationales guide internationalization strategies Chongqing University utilizes at present? What strategies does Chongqing University utilize to advance its internationalization? What remaining work needs to be done to reach Chongqing University’s future internationalization goal? ❧ Due to the absence of sound theoretical framework in current research, the researcher developed a hybrid framework for institutional internationalization combining aspects of several existing frameworks into a new tool suitable for this study. This three-phase analytical framework is a process approach providing a holistic understanding of the dynamics of internationalization of the study institution, rather than a fragmented activities-based approach to simply quantify the output. ❧ This case study provides a picture of internationalization at a typical Chinese research university, a representative of mainstream Chinese public universities with less capacity and fewer resources for internationalization than China’s top-tier universities. It also adds to knowledge on the internationalization of Chinese higher education as a whole, which has unique attributes that distinguish it from internationalization at Western higher education institutions. |
| Keyword | higher education; internationalization; globalization; research university; China |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Jiang, Xin |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-JiangXin-938.pdf |
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| Full text | THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF A NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY IN AN EMERGING MUNICIPALITY IN SOUTHWEST CHINA by Xin Jiang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2012 Copyright 2012 Xin Jiang |
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