Responding to an increasingly globalized world,universities are training students to function in a multicultural environment through internationalization.Institutional culture can influence policies and practices for ...Responding to an increasingly globalized world,universities are training students to function in a multicultural environment through internationalization.Institutional culture can influence policies and practices for internationalization.Research in internationalization indicate that majority of the studies on the contributions of organizational cultures to internationalization across universities focused on the perspectives of faculty and university senior level administrative personnel and neglected the views of students.This qualitative case study explored students’understanding of how organizational culture contributes to promote internationalization using international events that occur at two U.S universities.Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection.Purposeful and snowball sampling were employed to select domestic and international undergraduate and graduate students for the study.Findings indicate that integration into university family,community relationship,buffering,communication,symbols,and shared values and beliefs cultures are critical to promote higher education internationalization.展开更多
Higher education institutions across the world are responding to globalization through internationalization.However,there is limited research that focuses on the benefits of both internationalization-at-home and cross...Higher education institutions across the world are responding to globalization through internationalization.However,there is limited research that focuses on the benefits of both internationalization-at-home and cross-border internationalization to students’cosmopolitan competency from the perspective of students.Therefore,this qualitative case study explored the benefits of internationalization to students from the perspectives of both domestic and international undergraduate and graduate students at two U.S universities.Purposeful and snowball sampling strategies were adopted to identify sixteen students.Data were garnered via interviews,institutions’websites,and documents.Constant comparative method was employed to analyze the data.Findings from this study revealed that students acquired bilingual or multilingual abilities,fi rsthand cultural knowledge,global knowledge,cultural nuances critical to showing respect to people from different cultures and geographical backgrounds,friendship and networking,personal growth,high tendency to develop empathy through university internationalization,and opportunity to taste food from different parts of the world.The study recommends that,institutions of higher education should provide opportunities such as foreign language courses,Rosetta Stones,language laboratories,foreign language conversation hour sessions,English as a Second Language(ESL)or Intensive English Language program for students.Also,administrators and faculty are encouraged to provide a platform for study abroad returnees to share their experiences with their colleagues.Higher education institutions should continue to recruit more international students to enrich students’experiences and global learning.展开更多
文摘Responding to an increasingly globalized world,universities are training students to function in a multicultural environment through internationalization.Institutional culture can influence policies and practices for internationalization.Research in internationalization indicate that majority of the studies on the contributions of organizational cultures to internationalization across universities focused on the perspectives of faculty and university senior level administrative personnel and neglected the views of students.This qualitative case study explored students’understanding of how organizational culture contributes to promote internationalization using international events that occur at two U.S universities.Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection.Purposeful and snowball sampling were employed to select domestic and international undergraduate and graduate students for the study.Findings indicate that integration into university family,community relationship,buffering,communication,symbols,and shared values and beliefs cultures are critical to promote higher education internationalization.
文摘Higher education institutions across the world are responding to globalization through internationalization.However,there is limited research that focuses on the benefits of both internationalization-at-home and cross-border internationalization to students’cosmopolitan competency from the perspective of students.Therefore,this qualitative case study explored the benefits of internationalization to students from the perspectives of both domestic and international undergraduate and graduate students at two U.S universities.Purposeful and snowball sampling strategies were adopted to identify sixteen students.Data were garnered via interviews,institutions’websites,and documents.Constant comparative method was employed to analyze the data.Findings from this study revealed that students acquired bilingual or multilingual abilities,fi rsthand cultural knowledge,global knowledge,cultural nuances critical to showing respect to people from different cultures and geographical backgrounds,friendship and networking,personal growth,high tendency to develop empathy through university internationalization,and opportunity to taste food from different parts of the world.The study recommends that,institutions of higher education should provide opportunities such as foreign language courses,Rosetta Stones,language laboratories,foreign language conversation hour sessions,English as a Second Language(ESL)or Intensive English Language program for students.Also,administrators and faculty are encouraged to provide a platform for study abroad returnees to share their experiences with their colleagues.Higher education institutions should continue to recruit more international students to enrich students’experiences and global learning.
