Rethinking Education Across Borders Emerging Issues and Critical Insights on Globally Mobile Students

This book focuses on critical issues and perspectives concerning globally mobile students, aspects that have grown in importance thanks to major geopolitical, economic, and technological changes around the globe (i.e., in and across major origins and destinations of international students). 

Over the past few decades, the field of international higher education and scholarship has developed robust areas of research that guide current policy, programs, and pedagogy. However, many of the established narratives and wisdoms that dominate research agendas, scope, and foci have become somewhat ossified and are unable to reflect recent political upheavals and other changes (e.g. the Brexit, Trump era, and Belt and Road Initiative) that have disrupted a number of areas including mobility patterns and recruitment practices, understanding and supporting students, engagement of global mobile students with their local counterparts, and the political economy of international education at large. 

By re-assessing established issues and perspectives in light of the emerging global/local situations, the contributing authors – all experts on international education – share insights on policies and practices that can help adapt to emerging challenges and opportunities for institutions, scholars, and other stakeholders in international higher education. Including theoretical, empirical, and practitioner-based methods and perspectives provided by scholars from around the world, the book offers a unique and intriguing resource.

Dr. Uttam Gaulee is an edupreneur currently serving as president of the STAR Scholars Network, an international forum for researchers intended to advance global social mobility. His experience spans multiple functional areas in international higher education, student development, public policy, and multiculturalism. His research interests include community college systems, development education, and diaspora studies, along with interdisciplinary perspectives on education policy, global citizenship, and cross-cultural issues in international development and geopolitics. Currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University, Dr. Gaulee is an advocate of the idea of community colleges as vehicles for social progress and economic development in and beyond the US. His most recent book was Global Adaptations of Community College Infrastructure (IGI Global, 2018). 

Dr. Shyam Sharma is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric who teaches at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. His research and publications, which have appeared in flagship venues for Writing Studies, focus on writing in the disciplines, international students and education, cross-cultural rhetoric and communication, and new media. His latest book was Writing Support for International Graduate Students (Routledge, 2018).

Dr. Krishna Bista is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Morgan State University, where his research focuses on college students’ experiences concerning classroom participation, perceptions of academic integrity, faculty-student relationships, the role of advisors, and cross-cultural teaching and learning strategies in higher education. Dr. Bista is the founding editor of the Journal of International Students, a quarterly publication on international education. His latest book was Global Perspectives on International Student Experiences in Higher Education (Routledge, 2018).