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Knowledge Battlegrounds: Navigating Security Imperatives in Global Academia
No full textThis paper explores the interplay between academia and geopolitics, revealing how universities have become battlegrounds for national security interests. The paper unveils four dimensions: security-driven internationalization constraints, the allure of global talent mobility, the digital espionage in academic settings, and the politicization of knowledge. In a world of intensifying rivalries, the article presents urgent questions about preserving academic freedom amid competing national desires in a context where higher education is crucial for development and innovation
Embracing Complexities: Transformations of International Student Mobility amid Global Turmoil
No full textAlthough scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) is extensive, the evolving landscape of ISM, with increasingly diverse rationales, actors, and modalities, requires new data and forms of understanding. This article reflects on the new developments in ISM in the context of postpandemic and geopolitical turmoil. We conclude by urging scholars to engage in critical examination of the dominant theories and concepts informing our understanding of mobility. 
One-Size Student Financial Aid Cannot Fit All
No full textHigher education faces financial pressures due to rising costs and constrained public funding. While grants and student loans are key financial aid instruments, neither alone is sufficient to support students efficiently. Grants support low-income students but are costly for governments, while loans offer sustainability but raise concerns over debt burdens. Efficient financial aid requires a targeted mix of loans and grants. Future research should explore how to optimize aid distribution, ensuring accessibility while addressing diverse student needs
Private Higher Education: Advancing Discovery
No full textThe vast global expansion of private higher education to over 80 million students, a third of total enrollment, and near ubiquity by country, has brought formidable additional differentiation and complexity within the world’s higher education undertakings and stakeholder configurations. Leading research has captured vital dimensions of this differentiation, including through private-public and private-private comparisons. In addition to the dissemination of this discovered knowledge, the further expansion of knowledge rests largely upon building directly upon the considerable advances
Johan H. Hegeman. The Call of Conscience: Protestant Clergy and Jews in the Netherlands, 1935-1945
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Doctoral Graduate Attribute Development: Lessons From the South African Context
Full text linkDoctoral graduate attributes (DGAs) are the qualities and characteristics of a doctoral graduate. They are considered in the context of concerns for the quality and outcomes of doctoral education. Graduate attributes develop through formal education and the hidden curriculum, influenced by various agents such as the supervisor, peers and the institution of study. In doctoral education, where there is rarely a structured curriculum, consideration of how DGAs develop warrants investigation to ensure threshold levels of DGA development can be supported. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with doctoral supervisors, graduates and students from four South African higher education institutions. This article describes barriers and facilitators impacting the development of DGAs. The findings provide evidence of the interplay between various aspects that facilitate DGA development, including the doctoral student, supervisor(s), peers and institutions. The lack of awareness of DGAs and support available are important barriers to DGA development. It is recommended that support be offered at all levels, to facilitate learning. Agency should be encouraged to support the pursuit of doctoral scholars’ novel contribution, and growth as creative problem solvers. . The research contributes by constructing a framework of support for DGA development
Congressmen as Constituents
Full text linkThis research looks at the work of Richard Fenno Jr., author of “U.S House Members in their Constituencies: An Exploration,”as published in the 1977 American Political Science Review. This research seeks to expand upon Fenno’s work by exploring amedium unavailable in the late 1970’s – social media and personal web pages. Through a consideration of Facebook and Twitter,this paper explores how representatives use social media to appear as a part of their respective constituencies. This research also uses social media to further explore Fenno’s argument that politicians polish their image at the expense of Congress
The Impact of Climate Shocks on Homeowners' Insurance: A Legal, Economic, and Public Policy Analysis
Full text link In the past decade, climate shocks have ravaged the United States at unprecedented levels. This paper addresses one of the first victims: homeowners. Given the increasing frequency and severity of these shocks, insurance companies have begun charging sky-high premiums, or in a rising number of cases, completely dropping policies in high-risk states. Consequently, public policy has shifted, leaving homeowners in certain areas to choose between two options: insurers of last resort, such as California’s FAIR Plan, or non-admitted insurance. Adding to this problem are the economic implications, with several experts citing concerns that the cascading effects could prove to be worse than the 2007/2008 financial crisis. Further, there is the legal aspect, with legislation, regulation, and litigation all playing a role. Finally, while a variety of solutions have been proposed to address this crisis, none have proven completely effective. Thus, to prevent additional devastation, the paper offers two recommendations on how society should proceed
