Internationalization as a response to globalization: Radical shifts in university environments |
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| Authors: | Nelly P Stromquist |
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| Institution: | (1) Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4039, USA |
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| Abstract: | This case study probes recent developments in a number of academic and non-academic aspects of a private research university
in response to current globalization trends. Under the name of internationalization, university administrators and external
firms are emerging as powerful decision-makers shaping academic content and even academic governance. This is manifested in
student recruitment and in the hiring of prestigious professors and researchers to increase university reputation and thus
to appeal to more students and secure more research funds. Among disciplines central to economic and technological globalization,
such as communication, business, and engineering, patterns of convergence are emerging. Rather than internationalism, internationalization
is found to prevail, and internationalization is found to signify predominantly a search for student markets domestically
and abroad rather than positioning the university’s knowledge at the service of others in less advantaged parts of the world. |
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| Keywords: | academic governance entrepreneurial university globalization higher education internationalization internationalism organizational change US universities |
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