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Technology is changing the ways in which people communicate their thoughts and experience their surroundings. Augmented reality apps, for instance, add layers of information to places like museum exhibits and sporting events. Twitter connects individuals to trends. Social networking sites provide quick access to information about nearby places including parks and movie theaters. In their [...]

by Bill Tierney In 1841 Horace Mann wrote that “education has a power of ministering to our personal and material wants beyond all other agencies.  Every wise parent and community, desiring the prosperity of their children, will spare no pains in giving them a generous education.”   Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century Americans were in [...]

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 [...]

The last installment in our Travels in Turkey series follows. Turkey and Travel by Bill Tierney Although I have mostly resisted writing about anything other than issues related to higher education on this blog, enough people have asked me about traveling in Turkey that I thought I would give a thumbnail sketch of what to [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Rui Yang adds to his discussion of globalization and China with this addendum to this morning’s post. About the author: Dr. Yang is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Globalization and China: addendum Contemporary comparative and international studies of higher education reforms have overwhelmingly portrayed the powerful influence of economic and political [...]

We continue our discussion of globalization today with a post by guest scholar, Dr. Rui Yang. About the author: Dr. Yang is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Globalization and China by Dr. Rui Yang The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is often praised as the great chief architect of [...]