This document discusses current hot topics related to Chinese higher education. It covers 4 things to know about Chinese higher education, including cultural values that emphasize education and differences from U.S. higher education. Current hot topics discussed include the use of paid agents, plagiarism, growing enrollment in community colleges, and best practices for international programs. It also addresses perceptions of "tiger moms" and their influence on views of Chinese international students.
Understand China's power in the international education landscape.
Read more here: https://www.student.com/blog/chinas-rapid-rise-academic-destination/
Over the past five years, we have had the privilege of witnessing the increasing pace of interest and growth in China as a destination. More people than ever are learning Chinese, visiting China for tourism or business, and studying in China.
The Chinese government has been making concentrated efforts to improve the quality of education in the country and provide nancial support to foreign students.
Whilst Student.com does not currently list accommodation in mainland China, this is a student corridor we predict will increase in importance as student mobility patterns change, grow and adapt. We are excited about the increasing lure of China as a destination for international students.
Currently, most Chinese student accommodation is on campus; however, opportunities exist for more purpose-built student accommodation in China, as GSA’s recent entry into the market demonstrates.
Successful, sunny, and smiling: The ways that student life and faculty are ...George Veletsianos
Canadian institutions of higher education use Twitter nearly universally. Yet, little research examines the narratives around college life constructed in their tweets. In this research, we used data mining and thematic analysis methods to examine this issue. Findings suggest institutions construct overwhelmingly positive representations that are incomplete and potentially misleading.
Which international markets are now the best recruiting
targets for your international student enrollment plans?
The College Board and Intead present
the latest data available on trends in international student
mobility and how to use the data to inform your digital and
off-line marketing efforts.
The course discusses principles, concepts, commonality and distinction between two broad types of development agent; state and non-state actors, in their attempts to ‘institutionalize’ cooperation at the international level. With the focus on intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IOs and INGOs), students will explore their historical origins, ostensible functions and the roles in global politics and development, as well as external and internal political factors that impact their operations and effectiveness.
Resisting Total Marginality: Understanding African-American College Students’...QUESTJOURNAL
ABSTRACT: This article explores collegiate Black identity development when African American students attend predominantly White institutions (PWIs) in the United States, considering the overall impact of total marginality. The term “total marginality” is used to describe the myriad, chronic, and often inescapable ways that African American college students attending PWIs are marginalized in a college setting. The focus of this paper is the impact of total marginality on Black identity development for those African American collegians who successfully complete their university studies at a PWI.
Understand China's power in the international education landscape.
Read more here: https://www.student.com/blog/chinas-rapid-rise-academic-destination/
Over the past five years, we have had the privilege of witnessing the increasing pace of interest and growth in China as a destination. More people than ever are learning Chinese, visiting China for tourism or business, and studying in China.
The Chinese government has been making concentrated efforts to improve the quality of education in the country and provide nancial support to foreign students.
Whilst Student.com does not currently list accommodation in mainland China, this is a student corridor we predict will increase in importance as student mobility patterns change, grow and adapt. We are excited about the increasing lure of China as a destination for international students.
Currently, most Chinese student accommodation is on campus; however, opportunities exist for more purpose-built student accommodation in China, as GSA’s recent entry into the market demonstrates.
Successful, sunny, and smiling: The ways that student life and faculty are ...George Veletsianos
Canadian institutions of higher education use Twitter nearly universally. Yet, little research examines the narratives around college life constructed in their tweets. In this research, we used data mining and thematic analysis methods to examine this issue. Findings suggest institutions construct overwhelmingly positive representations that are incomplete and potentially misleading.
Which international markets are now the best recruiting
targets for your international student enrollment plans?
The College Board and Intead present
the latest data available on trends in international student
mobility and how to use the data to inform your digital and
off-line marketing efforts.
The course discusses principles, concepts, commonality and distinction between two broad types of development agent; state and non-state actors, in their attempts to ‘institutionalize’ cooperation at the international level. With the focus on intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IOs and INGOs), students will explore their historical origins, ostensible functions and the roles in global politics and development, as well as external and internal political factors that impact their operations and effectiveness.
Resisting Total Marginality: Understanding African-American College Students’...QUESTJOURNAL
ABSTRACT: This article explores collegiate Black identity development when African American students attend predominantly White institutions (PWIs) in the United States, considering the overall impact of total marginality. The term “total marginality” is used to describe the myriad, chronic, and often inescapable ways that African American college students attending PWIs are marginalized in a college setting. The focus of this paper is the impact of total marginality on Black identity development for those African American collegians who successfully complete their university studies at a PWI.
Conclusions:
Social media is ubiquitous and here to stay.
Although professors are reluctant to use social media in classes, students are passionate about that.
Using social media enhance students’ access, participation, collaboration, self-expectation, and performance.
Teach students to protect privacy when using social media. Digital world is also the world.
CIEE and Johnson and Wales University have collaborated for the past two years to develop a freshman study abroad program called "Expanding the Freshman Experience." This session will focus on how they created best practices related to transitioning from the more traditional faculty-led program to a collaborative, non-faculty-led program that serves an underrepresented population. Attendees will learn how to design a program that meets the unique needs of freshman students and encourage them to safely leave their comfort zone. Special consideration during this session is given to the developmental phase of emerging adulthood in the design of program components, overall tone, and expectations.
The Joseph Klunder Education Challenge aims to let individuals find the best educational fit for them. This is done through key principles that Joseph Klunder endorses, including truth in advertising, veracity, etc.
Only through exposing false practices, agents promising things that do not exist, etc. can we truly get the most return on our financial, time, energy, and emotional investment.
Presentation given at the China British Business Council (CBBC) by Christian Dougoud on 28th November 2013.
Key topics:
Factors influencing the choice of a University
Social Media landscape in China
Using Mobile Communication for Higher Education with Wechat/Weixin
Overcoming Challenges of Using Social Media for Outreach in an Academic Librarysociamigo
This tutorial addresses the challenges of using social media for outreach. Free MP3 Podcast reveals how to use social media to sell more stuff.
Find out more at www.sociamigo.com/mp3
ReimaginED 2015: Trends in K12 EducationDavid Havens
We’re living in a time of tremendous technological change. In the next five years, another billion people will gain access to the internet. By 2020, 80% of the adults on Earth will have a smartphone, double what it is today.
We started the Seed Fund to seek out those places where technological change might be leveraged to improve education, and there is much to improve about our current system. One of the most troubling trends of the last decade is the decrease in educational mobility. As a country, we are doing worse than most at educating our neediest kids which now account for just over half of public school children.
For our neediest children, the problems are cumulative. A series of school failures and missed opportunities add up to an education of accumulated disadvantage, a reverse Matthew Effect of sorts. Our team is focused on how technology can be used to reduce and even eliminate these obstacles so that our school system is an escalator to opportunity for all.
We’ve invested in over 40 teams scaling ideas to improve our education system by empowering students, educators and families with the best tools technology has to offer. Through this lens, we share our second ReImaginED deck. Inspired by KPCB’s Mary Meeker’s widely shared Internet Trends deck, we set out to expose data about our K-12 education system and highlight some of the innovations in education technology. The goal of this deck is to draw out high level trends so it doesn’t include the human stories on the other side of these numbers and charts, see here for some of those.
In ReimaginED 2015 (building off the original published over a year ago), we review the latest systemic challenges, landscape shifts, and emerging innovations that are helping to solve these problems.
Let us know about other innovation trends you are seeing in the comments below or by sharing this on twitter, #ReimaginED2015.
(Cross-post from www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined2015, original post by Jennifer Carolan and David Havens)
Open Doors
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Massive Open Online Courses
The Importance Of Academic Performance
Open Educational Resources ( Oers ) Essay
Why I Want to Study in University?
College Admissions Essay: Open To Change
What I Can Offer Your University Essay
Oral Roberts University Application Essay Sample
My Experience At The University
Persuasive Essay On Open Campus
Equity, Diversity And Inclusion
Open Innovation
Swot Analysis : The Arab Open University Essay
Massive Open Online Courses
Conclusions:
Social media is ubiquitous and here to stay.
Although professors are reluctant to use social media in classes, students are passionate about that.
Using social media enhance students’ access, participation, collaboration, self-expectation, and performance.
Teach students to protect privacy when using social media. Digital world is also the world.
CIEE and Johnson and Wales University have collaborated for the past two years to develop a freshman study abroad program called "Expanding the Freshman Experience." This session will focus on how they created best practices related to transitioning from the more traditional faculty-led program to a collaborative, non-faculty-led program that serves an underrepresented population. Attendees will learn how to design a program that meets the unique needs of freshman students and encourage them to safely leave their comfort zone. Special consideration during this session is given to the developmental phase of emerging adulthood in the design of program components, overall tone, and expectations.
The Joseph Klunder Education Challenge aims to let individuals find the best educational fit for them. This is done through key principles that Joseph Klunder endorses, including truth in advertising, veracity, etc.
Only through exposing false practices, agents promising things that do not exist, etc. can we truly get the most return on our financial, time, energy, and emotional investment.
Presentation given at the China British Business Council (CBBC) by Christian Dougoud on 28th November 2013.
Key topics:
Factors influencing the choice of a University
Social Media landscape in China
Using Mobile Communication for Higher Education with Wechat/Weixin
Overcoming Challenges of Using Social Media for Outreach in an Academic Librarysociamigo
This tutorial addresses the challenges of using social media for outreach. Free MP3 Podcast reveals how to use social media to sell more stuff.
Find out more at www.sociamigo.com/mp3
ReimaginED 2015: Trends in K12 EducationDavid Havens
We’re living in a time of tremendous technological change. In the next five years, another billion people will gain access to the internet. By 2020, 80% of the adults on Earth will have a smartphone, double what it is today.
We started the Seed Fund to seek out those places where technological change might be leveraged to improve education, and there is much to improve about our current system. One of the most troubling trends of the last decade is the decrease in educational mobility. As a country, we are doing worse than most at educating our neediest kids which now account for just over half of public school children.
For our neediest children, the problems are cumulative. A series of school failures and missed opportunities add up to an education of accumulated disadvantage, a reverse Matthew Effect of sorts. Our team is focused on how technology can be used to reduce and even eliminate these obstacles so that our school system is an escalator to opportunity for all.
We’ve invested in over 40 teams scaling ideas to improve our education system by empowering students, educators and families with the best tools technology has to offer. Through this lens, we share our second ReImaginED deck. Inspired by KPCB’s Mary Meeker’s widely shared Internet Trends deck, we set out to expose data about our K-12 education system and highlight some of the innovations in education technology. The goal of this deck is to draw out high level trends so it doesn’t include the human stories on the other side of these numbers and charts, see here for some of those.
In ReimaginED 2015 (building off the original published over a year ago), we review the latest systemic challenges, landscape shifts, and emerging innovations that are helping to solve these problems.
Let us know about other innovation trends you are seeing in the comments below or by sharing this on twitter, #ReimaginED2015.
(Cross-post from www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined2015, original post by Jennifer Carolan and David Havens)
Open Doors
The Open University Documentary Analysis
Pros And Cons Of University Clubs Essay
Massive Open Online Courses
The Importance Of Academic Performance
Open Educational Resources ( Oers ) Essay
Why I Want to Study in University?
College Admissions Essay: Open To Change
What I Can Offer Your University Essay
Oral Roberts University Application Essay Sample
My Experience At The University
Persuasive Essay On Open Campus
Equity, Diversity And Inclusion
Open Innovation
Swot Analysis : The Arab Open University Essay
Massive Open Online Courses
Dissertation defense.
The model was really nifty with the original animations. A Flash is available for the TNE Model slide here http://tne.nixhome.com/TNE_Model/TNE_Model.htm
Anya Kamenetz DIYU at the 2011 WASC ARCWASC Senior
Colleges and universities today can no longer afford to conduct business as usual. The pressures of rising costs and ever-stronger mandates for accountability, access and success are too strong. Students, meanwhile, have urgent questions about the return on their investment and the relevance of the education they're receiving in a 21st century context. The way we connect, communicate, and access information is changing every day. When will these changes substantially affect education? Kamenetz addresses all these concerns and sets forth her vision of a future that includes personal learning networks, personalized learning paths, expanded peer learning and assessment, and learning that blends experiential and digital approaches. Faculty and administrators need to lead the way from the second to the "third horizon" of change by incorporating the seeds of future transformation while improving their institutions' working today.
More and more Americans are going tocollege, but how many of.docxgilpinleeanna
More and more Americans are going to
college, but how many of them are actually
learning anything?
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A CRITIC AT LARGE
LIVE AND LEARN
Why we have college.
by Louis Menand
JUNE 6, 2011
y first job as a professor was at an Ivy
League university. The students were happy
to be taught, and we, their teachers, were happy to
be teaching them. Whatever portion of their time
and energy was being eaten up by social
commitments—which may have been huge, but
about which I was ignorant—they seemed earnestly
and unproblematically engaged with the academic
experience. If I was naïve about this, they were
gracious enough not to disabuse me. None of us
ever questioned the importance of what we were
doing.
At a certain appointed hour, the university
decided to make its way in the world without me,
and we parted company. I was assured that there
were no hard feelings. I was fortunate to get a
position in a public university system, at a college
with an overworked faculty, an army of part-time instructors, and sixteen thousand students.
Many of these students were the first in their families to attend college, and any distractions
they had were not social. Many of them worked, and some had complicated family
responsibilities.
I didn’t regard this as my business any more than I had the social lives of my Ivy League
students. I assigned my new students the same readings I had assigned the old ones. I
understood that the new students would not be as well prepared, but, out of faith or ego, I
thought that I could tell them what they needed to know, and open up the texts for them. Soon
Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/1106...
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after I started teaching there, someone raised his hand and asked, about a text I had assigned,
“Why did we have to buy this book?”
I got the question in that form only once, but I heard it a number of times in the
unmonetized form of “Why did we have to read this book?” I could see that this was not only a
perfectly legitimate question; it was a very interesting question. The students were asking me to
justify the return on investment in a college education. I just had never been called upon to think
about this before. It wasn’t part of my training. We took the value of the business we were in for
granted.
I could have said, “You are reading these books because you’re in college, and these are the
kinds of books that people in college read.” If you hold a certain theory of education, that
answer is not as circular as it sounds. The theory goes like this: In any group of people, it’s easy
to determine who is the fastest or the strongest or even the best-looking. But picking out the
most intelligent person is difficult, because intelligence involves many attributes that can’t be
captured in a one-time assessment, like an I.Q. test. There is no intellectual equivalent of the
hundred-yard dash. An intelligent person is open-minded ...
Mick Purcell, Principal at the Edubridge International School, Mumbai, delivered this breakaway session, entitled, Academic Honesty in the Digital Age, during our Leadership Conference, 2014.
1 Early Childhood Education Program Education .docxpoulterbarbara
1
Early Childhood Education Program
Education Department
Hostos Community College of the City University of New York
500 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10451
EDU 101: Foundations of Education
Section: 000B
Code: 5671
Semester: Summer 2020
Class meets: Online
Location: Online
Syllabus
Instructor/Professor: Dr. Denise Cummings-Clay
Office: A-107H
Education Office: Early Childhood Education, A-107
Office Hours: Online or by Appointment
Phone: (405) 409-2464; Message Line: (405) 409-2464
Email: [email protected]
This course has been designated a Writing Intensive (WI) Course by Hostos Community College. The
requirements include both formal (graded) and informal (non-graded) writing assignments. These
assignments are designed to strengthen students’ writing skills within their specific disciplines. It is
expected that through these writing exercises, students will become better writers and communicators.
Course Description
This course introduces learners to a variety of critical contemporary and foundational issues and themes
that influence modern urban education models. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this course,
prospective paraprofessionals, teachers and/or non-education-liberal arts majors interested in Child &
Family Studies related fields, will be introduced to the social-cultural, historical, philosophical, and
technological influences that impact children’s curricula, pedagogical practices, and learning
environments. This course also integrates theoretical readings with required visits to educational urban
settings and formal written observations of their experiences.
Course Materials: Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain
or introduced with an open license, which are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for
research purposes. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy,
use, adapt and re-share them.
mailto:[email protected]
2
Course Objectives
Learners are exposed to the concept that teaching is inherently a political act. Schools and learners don’t
reside in a value neutral environment, but quite the opposite. The mere “fact” of acquiring an education
is a political act in the sense that it involves making choices as to:
• WHAT is taught (content)
• HOW information is presented
(pedagogy)
• WHOM is taught (student)
• WHO will teach (teacher)
• WHY it is taught (history)
Using this concept as a background for discussion, this course is designed to address the following goals:
1. To develop consciousness concerning how schooling and education are related to larger
structures of social, cultural, political, and economical life in the United States. It is expected
that learners will understand the larger socio-political macrocosm of American Society and
how it influences.
1 Early Childhood Education Program Education .docxadkinspaige22
1
Early Childhood Education Program
Education Department
Hostos Community College of the City University of New York
500 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10451
EDU 101: Foundations of Education
Section: 000B
Code: 5671
Semester: Summer 2020
Class meets: Online
Location: Online
Syllabus
Instructor/Professor: Dr. Denise Cummings-Clay
Office: A-107H
Education Office: Early Childhood Education, A-107
Office Hours: Online or by Appointment
Phone: (405) 409-2464; Message Line: (405) 409-2464
Email: [email protected]
This course has been designated a Writing Intensive (WI) Course by Hostos Community College. The
requirements include both formal (graded) and informal (non-graded) writing assignments. These
assignments are designed to strengthen students’ writing skills within their specific disciplines. It is
expected that through these writing exercises, students will become better writers and communicators.
Course Description
This course introduces learners to a variety of critical contemporary and foundational issues and themes
that influence modern urban education models. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this course,
prospective paraprofessionals, teachers and/or non-education-liberal arts majors interested in Child &
Family Studies related fields, will be introduced to the social-cultural, historical, philosophical, and
technological influences that impact children’s curricula, pedagogical practices, and learning
environments. This course also integrates theoretical readings with required visits to educational urban
settings and formal written observations of their experiences.
Course Materials: Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain
or introduced with an open license, which are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for
research purposes. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy,
use, adapt and re-share them.
mailto:[email protected]
2
Course Objectives
Learners are exposed to the concept that teaching is inherently a political act. Schools and learners don’t
reside in a value neutral environment, but quite the opposite. The mere “fact” of acquiring an education
is a political act in the sense that it involves making choices as to:
• WHAT is taught (content)
• HOW information is presented
(pedagogy)
• WHOM is taught (student)
• WHO will teach (teacher)
• WHY it is taught (history)
Using this concept as a background for discussion, this course is designed to address the following goals:
1. To develop consciousness concerning how schooling and education are related to larger
structures of social, cultural, political, and economical life in the United States. It is expected
that learners will understand the larger socio-political macrocosm of American Society and
how it influences.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
2. What We will Cover Today:
4 things you should know about Chinese
higher ed.
Current hot topics:
Use of paid agents
Plagiarism
Community college enrollment
Best practices from international programs around
the nation
―Tiger mom‖ and our perception of Chinese
international students
3. 4 Things You Should Know about
Chinese Higher Ed.
Chinese Higher Ed: Cultural Values
Major differences between Chinese and U.S.
higher ed.
Why are students coming to the U.S.?
Facts and figures about Chinese international
students in the U.S.
4. Chinese Higher Ed: Cultural
Values
Confucian influence = great emphasis on
education
Meritocracy
Harmony and group mentality vs. individualism
Population with degrees = 9 % (Chronicle of
Higher Education)
Class inequalities and education attainment
6. Why Are Students Coming to the
U.S.?
Prestige—Institute of International Education
survey (2009)
Growing middle class in China
Marketability
Flexibility of U.S. education system
Recruitment
7. Facts and Figures about Chinese
International Students in the U.S.
1 in 5 international student is Chinese
2010 – 2011: 157,558 students came from
China (up 23% from previous year)
67% with personal funding = major
contribution to U.S. economy
Top majors: 1) BUS/MGMT; 2) ENG/MATH; 3)
PHYS/Life Sciences/Social Sciences
Data from Open Door (opendoor.iie.org)
8. Hot topic # 1: Use of paid
agents
Define types of education agents
Commissioned
Hired by university vs. students
Data from 2010 National Association for
College Admissions Counseling
421member institutions surveyed about the use
of agents for international recruitment
9. Agents—cont’d
Pros
Saves institutions money
Essential for small universities and community
colleges in the U.S.
Local agents are helpful to families with little
English = local access
10. Agents—cont’d
Cons
Paid based on numbers = leads to abuse
Uncertified, lack of training, not regulated
Unfair to students that can’t pay
Conflict of interest = transcript and test score
integrity (Zinch China 2011 survey)
11. Discussion
Do you agree with the use of agents?
Implications for advisors?
How does your institution recruit international
students?
12. Hot topic # 2: Plagiarism
Define plagiarism
Statistics of plagiarism
Plagiarism and Chinese international students
13. Discussion
Have you dealt with students who were
confronted about plagiarism?
How do your institutions educate international
students about plagiarism?
As advisors, how can we curtail plagiarism?
14. Hot topic # 3: Community College
Enrollment
Data from Open Door—leading inst. by type
# of Students
PhD
M.A
B.A/B.S # of Students
AA
0 5000 10000
15. Community college, cont’d
Perceptions
Different student population
Visa process
Green River Community College, WA
16. Discussion
What are the advantages of starting at a
community college?
17. Hot topic # 4: Best Practices
Good transfer agreements
International outreach
Cross-cultural training for advisors
Bilingual counselors
Living and learning communities that foster
exchange between Chinese and domestic
students
From Karen Doss Bowman, International Educator, Mar. + Apr. 2012
18. Discussion
What are exemplary practices on your
campuses?
How do you envision a ―good‖ international
program?
19. Hot topic # 5: Tiger moms and our
Perception of the Chinese International
Student
What is a tiger mom? Quote from Amy Chua
attend a sleepover
have a playdate
be in a school play
complain about not being in a school play
watch TV or play computer games
choose their own extracurricular activities
get any grade less than an A
not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama
play any instrument other than the piano or violin
not play the piano or violin.
20. Tiger moms, cont’d
PISA: Programm for International Student
Assessment (65 countries)
Countries Reading Science Math (496)
(493) (501)
Shanghai- 556 575 600
China
Korea 539 538 546
Finland 536 554 541
Hong Kong- 533 549 555
China
Singapore 526 542 562
21. Tiger moms, cont’d
Tiger moms in China?
What the "Chinese mom" debate swirling around Amy Chua's
book fails to adequately consider is the fact that American
classrooms—and society in general—are more conducive to
individual expression and innovation. The rote learning that
she stresses might work when her daughters, outside the
home, are encouraged to think independently. But in
China, where authoritarian parenting is coupled with an
ossified higher education system, creativity is stifled. The
father-knows-best Confucian approach is applied to a
repressive degree. (Indeed, Chinese men dominate
academia, and the "Chinese dad" phenomenon would be
considered more relevant than that of the "Chinese mom" to
begin with.)
Quote from thedailybeast.com
22. Discussion
How does the ―tiger mom‖ phenomenon
influence our perception of Chinese
(international) students?
24. Questions/Comments?
Yung-Hwa Anna Chow
Academic Advisor
General Studies, Critical Culture, Gender, and
Race Studies
Washington State University
ychow@wsu.edu
