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U.S. National Higher Education Internationalization Policy: An Historical Analysis of Policy Development between 2000 and 2019

Soobrayen Veerasamy, Parmeswaree Soobrayen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588601150598301

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Higher Education.
Situated within the context of globalization, the purpose of this historical policy analysis study was to identify and describe the ways in which multiple actors shaped national higher education internationalization policy within the U.S., and to capture the emerging direction in higher education internationalization policy at the national level between 2000 and 2019. The guiding research question was as follows: How has national higher education internationalization policy been shaped, and how has the policy evolved in novel ways since 2000? Data were collected and interpreted using horizontal and vertical historical analysis. The findings demonstrated that the public, voluntary, and private sectors simultaneously shaped higher education internationalization policy at the national level. These sectors shaped policy by complementing each other’s efforts, by supplementing each other’s efforts, or by merely opposing each other’s efforts. Novel policy efforts emerged in reaction to events and not in preemption of events, and were evident in four major areas: (a) international education at home (language and personnel training), (b) international student recruitment, (c) education abroad, and (d) international institutional partnerships. Based on the influential factors of (a) globalization, (b) technology, (c) demographics, (d) global trade, and (e) geopolitics, multiple rationales guided policy trajectory at the national level and rationales for policy efforts shifted under each presidential period. In 2000, President Clinton positioned international education within the context of economic globalization. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks and the ensuing wars in the Middle East, national security became a dominant political rationale during all three presidential periods, and the focus of policy efforts was outbound. In 2009, under President Obama, socio-cultural rationales fashioned novel policy efforts in support of the economy. Finally, in 2017, President Trump’s nationalist and anti-globalization sentiments guided policy decisions towards a rift with the interconnected world order and cultural diversity.
Snejana Slantcheva-Durst (Committee Chair)
Rosalind Raby (Committee Member)
Linda Hagedorn (Committee Member)
Sammy Spann (Committee Member)
270 p.
Higher Education; History
higher education policy; internationalization policy; globalization

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  • Soobrayen Veerasamy, P. S. (2020). U.S. National Higher Education Internationalization Policy: An Historical Analysis of Policy Development between 2000 and 2019 [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588601150598301

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Soobrayen Veerasamy, Parmeswaree. U.S. National Higher Education Internationalization Policy: An Historical Analysis of Policy Development between 2000 and 2019. 2020. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588601150598301.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Soobrayen Veerasamy, Parmeswaree. "U.S. National Higher Education Internationalization Policy: An Historical Analysis of Policy Development between 2000 and 2019." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588601150598301

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