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📢 Students as Informants: Methodological Considerations in Education Agent Research Are you planning to collect international student perspectives to better understand how education agents behave? In this piece, Ying Yang, Rica Agnes Castaneda, and I explore some of the methodological challenges involved in doing so. The article is part of the Critical Internationalization Studies Review (2026), but it's already available online (open access)! I recommend this reading to researchers, supervisors, and international education practitioners. Several researchers are actively studying this field, but also higher education institutions, government agencies, and industry bodies are collecting data to understand whether students are satisfied with the services provided by agents, as well as international students' overall experiences working with them. Student perspectives are essential for understanding how education agents behave, but collecting data presents several methodological challenges. This article examines these issues in light of our previous and ongoing research. We are considering expanding the ideas presented in this piece into a more substantial review and would welcome suggestions and feedback! Thank you Critical Internationalization Studies Network and Melissa Whatley Our article is available here (open access): https://lnkd.in/gfnNeNEE

At CISR, we also believe that knowledge and scholarship should be free, equitable, accessible, and community-driven. We join other international higher education truly open-access outlets such as IHE from the Center for International Higher Education, and the newly created Journal of Global Higher Education in celebrating this year’s Open Access Week. As an open-access journal dedicated to critical internationalisation studies, CISR is committed to advancing the following: 1) Access for all: ensuring that research, insights, and commentary on global higher education are available freely, without paywalls or barriers. 2) Diversifying voices: We reaffirm the importance of scholars, practitioners and communities from the Global South, Indigenous epistemologies, and under-represented groups in shaping the internationalization agenda. 3) Questioning power & ownership: Scholars who publish with us explore how knowledge is produced, who benefits from it, whose perspectives are elevated or silenced, and how structures of privilege and commodification are perpetuated in higher education in general, and internationalization in particular. 4) Bridging research and practice: Open access scholarship should also facilitate exchange between scholars and practitioners so that critical work on internationalization influences real-world policies, campus culture, and international education practices. Join us in this global conversation. Because knowledge should not be locked away, nor shaped solely by commercial interests or hegemonic frameworks. In this #OpenAccess week, we want to thank Seton Hall University Libraries for helping us achieve our mission of making CISR free to read and free to publish. #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek #HigherEducation #Internationalization #CriticalInternationalization

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📢📢📢 New Research Brief video: What is an ‘international student’ in transnational higher education？by Professor Jason E. Lane   Watch now at: https://lnkd.in/eVD5X73X Traditionally, the concept has been defined by nationality or visa status - a straightforward binary between domestic students (studying in their home country) and international students (those who leave their home country to study abroad). But in today’s higher education landscape, things are more complex. With the growth of transnational education (TNE) and international branch campuses (IBCs), both students and institutions are mobile. This challenges the conventional binary distinction and prompts us to rethink what we really mean when we use the term “international student.”   This is a recorded summary of their recent paper: ‘What is an ‘international student’ in transnational higher education?’ published in Critical Internationalisation Studies Review Critical Internationalization Studies Network. You can read the full paper at: https://lnkd.in/eCv_-KXE 😊 😊 😊

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We are excited to launch the RIS Book Mentorship Program! This is a mentorship program aimed at any colleagues who are working towards authoring or editing their first academic book publication on a topic related in some way to research with international students. Find full details on our website at: https://lnkd.in/eWaRTtVn This new mentorship program will be open on a rolling basis, aiming to connect colleagues hoping to publish their first book with someone in the field who already has experience with publishing a book. The assigned mentor can support with things like navigating the academic book publishing system, proposal development, and working towards manuscript submission. By participating in the mentorship program, the book can be labelled 'supported by Research with International Students'. Our network will then support with outreach and promotion once the book is published, such as through our blog and an online book launch webinar. This program is now open on a rolling basis and an application can be made at any time in the future. We ask that scholars apply when they are at a stage where they know the specific topic and scope of their future book, and are ready to commit to developing it further and seeking a publication route for it. If you have already published a book before and would like to be added to our mentor pool, please reach out to us!

At long last! The first issue of the Journal of Global Higher Education is now available for your reading pleasure! https://lnkd.in/ey9iagGq It has been such an honor and a privilege to be one of the founding editors of this journal. I am most of all grateful for my co-editors, Sylvie Lomer, Charles Mathies, and Jenna Mittelmeier, who have been a dream to work with and such wonderful colleagues the past two years while we argued (nicely!), discussed, and dedicated time and effort to pulling together everything to make this journal happen. You can read more about the values and perspectives that guided our approach in our editorial: https://lnkd.in/eBMnub3e We'll be open to submissions in mid-September, and we hope you'll think of us as a home for your work! In the meantime, here are a couple useful links: Aims and Scope: https://lnkd.in/eUyB-BXm Article Types: https://lnkd.in/eBspD_vb While we're still working on important journal details and the mechanics of how our submission system will work, this is work that I am immensely proud of. I am so excited to see where this journal goes and how it shapes scholarly work in global higher education in the future. A special thanks to all our first issue authors, who trusted us with their work and who were patient with us as we learned: Chrystal A. George Mwangi, PhD Christina Yao Sharon Stein Hiba B. Ibrahim 🍉 🇵🇸 Savo Heleta Chris Glass Ekaterina Minaeva Riyad A. Shahjahan Suvi Jokila Raakel Plamper Adeline De Angelis Shinji Katsumoto, Tang T. Heng Alma Maldonado Maldonado GL Hernandez Kombe Kapatamoyo, PhD Josiah Koh, Rebecca Hovey Bryan McAllister-Grande Happy reading! 📖 📚 📒

Check out the Critical Internationalization Studies Review's new partner journal! The Journal of Global Higher Education has now officially launched! We are pleased to share our inaugural issue, now available to read online: https://lnkd.in/eSZQPGFD. We are spending the next few weeks perfecting our submissions systems and will be open for submissions by mid-September. We hope you will consider submitting your future papers for consideration through our peer review process. In the meantime, you can read more information about the topics (https://lnkd.in/ezsGPCze) and the types of articles (https://lnkd.in/edGqyC2t) we publish on our website. We accept format-free submissions (https://lnkd.in/eBJ2gVjK). We are an independent scholarly collective journal which operates fully open access. We do not charge any fees or processing charges to read or publish with us. Follow our journey at: X: https://lnkd.in/eBMUuBzx LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eB3_YGEp Bluesky: https://lnkd.in/erNnMyP4 Facebook: https://lnkd.in/eBUhmN6H