The Disruption and Renewal of Global Higher Education: Conflict, Collaboration, and Competition in Period of Political, Economic, and Social Instability

Dear Colleagues:

We welcome your contributions to a Special Issue of Education Sciences titled “The Disruption and Renewal of Global Higher Education: Conflict, Collaboration, and Competition in a Period of Political, Economic, and Social Instability.”

Internationally, higher education has entered an unstable period due to the US–China trade conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, the wars in Europe and the Middle East, and tensions between globalism and nationalism. Given this backdrop, research on strategies and tactics for addressing these new challenges across nations, within nations, and universities are welcome. The following topics for research papers, histories, and essays are encouraged, as well as other related issues:

• The development of international and global higher education: stabilizing, rebuilding, and strengthening international partnerships;
• Campus internationalization, including the reconstruction of global strategies in Chinese universities;
• Disruptive social, economic, and social forces affecting internationalization, college organization, student diversity, and international student exchange;
• Campus internationalization of Chinese universities as a reconstruction of their global strategies;
• Restabilizing international exchange: institutional partnerships in institutional and international projects in the sciences and social sciences fields, and international cooperation in STEM degree programs;
• Shifting political ideologies affecting higher education policies, college development, and college curricula;
• The instability and disruption of global trends in higher education: analyses of international and national databases.

Sincerely, Guest Editors:

Emeritus Prof. Edward P. St. John (University of Michigan), Professor Wang Chen (Beijing Normal University), Associate Dean Xu Li (South China University of Technology), and Associate Professor Lijing Yang (Ohio University)

Examples from our Prior Collaborations include

• Chen, W., St. John, E. P., Hannon, C. & Li, X. (Eds.) (2018). Actionable Research for Education Equity and Social Justice: Higher Education Reform in China and Beyond. New York: Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Actionable-Research-for-Educational-Equity-and-Social-Justice-Higher-Education/Chen-Li-John-Hannon/p/book/9780367895792
• Education Sciences Special Issue: Education Improvement Promoting Human Capabilities Development in Post-Neoliberal Period.  published online and freely accessible on the MDPI Books platform:https://www.mdpi.com/books/book/8326-education-improvement-promoting-human-capabilities-development-in-post-neoliberal-period

Papers are published immediately after acceptance and retained for the book. Articles will be published as open access in Education Sciences and reprinted as a chapter of a book published by MDI. Typically, Education Sciences charges a fee for external reviews. For writers in universities that do not have an agreement through international library exchanges to pay these fees, Beijing Normal University will pay the cost of external reviews for our next Special Issue. 

Dr. Lijing Yang
Prof. Dr. Chen Wang
Dr. Xu LI
Prof. Dr. Edward P. P. St. John
Guest Editors

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• higher education
• globalization, nationalization, organizational Behavior
• political ideologies
• public policy
• public finance