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At the risk of aging myself, I want to refer our talk today to a time and place where I grew up. Most of my immigrant family worked in mills that supported the steel industry. Blessed with abundant resources of iron ore and coal, towns sprang up in Pennsylvania that soon became synonymous with specialty [...]

 by Bill Tierney I have now gone on two trips with PhD students ostensibly so that they might learn more about globalization and education.  The first trip was two years ago with Darnell Cole to Beijing and Shanghai; the most recent adventure with Gib Hentschke took us to Hong Kong and Singapore. We were more [...]

  Why investors like the For-Profit Higher Education Business – A lesson in architecture.  by Mark DeFusco I was recently invited by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education to speak at their 2011 Global Forum in Vancouver.  They want me to speak about why private equity is so interested in education worldwide, and to participate [...]

by Bill Tierney I have never visited Vietnam which is a large part of the reason that I jumped at the offer to give a half dozen lectures in Ho Chi Minh City at Vietnam National University and the Southeast Asian Ministry in December.  Although I have never been here, Vietnam looms large in my [...]

21st Century Scholar’s own Dr. William G. Tierney recently returned from a month in Turkey. He blogs about his travel experience in this fourth installment of the series, aptly entitled, Travels in Turkey. Turkey and Jobs by Bill Tierney A friend who lives here commented to me one day that “Turkey is a can-do country.  [...]

By Randy Clemens The bell rang. I shut the door and began taking attendance. It was a typical fall morning. Some students milled around in the corner, ostensibly getting their books and binders but really just socializing and waiting for me to say something. Others sat in their chairs diligently working on the warm-up or diligently distracting [...]

by Randy Clemens I recently completed a research project about undocumented immigrants. The project was a policy analysis of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. What did I find? After reading countless economic reports and news articles, I found that there is little neutral, trustworthy information available. For every report in which the [...]

Today we continue our series by 21st Century Scholar’s primary contributor, Dr. William G. Tierney, who blogs about his recent travel experience in a series, aptly entitled, Travels in Turkey. Turkey and Study Abroad by Bill Tierney We traveled for one month in Turkey with friends who have been living there off and on for [...]

21st Century Scholar’s primary contributor, Dr. William G. Tierney has spent the month of June in Turkey. He blogs about his travel experience in a new series, aptly entitled, Travels in Turkey. Globalization, Privatization and Turkey by Bill Tierney We are currently traveling in Turkey and I’ll have a lot to say when we return, [...]

Next up in our globalization series: Simon Marginson joins the discussion. About the author: Professor Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He took up this position in July 2006. His inaugural professorial lecture on ‘The global positioning of Australian higher [...]