A Global American University: How Midwest University Exports Education to the Periphery

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Author(s): Heather Sweeney (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)and Edwin Nii Bonney (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 14
Source title: People-Centered Approaches Toward the Internationalization of Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gabrielle Malfatti (University of Missouri, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3796-1.ch013

Keywords: Educational Leadership & Administration / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management and Library Science

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Today's higher education institutions are engaged in fierce competition over research dollars, attracting students, and reputation. And the institutions of the Global North have begun to demonstrate a proactive desire to drive the academic exchange occurring on the global stage via the creation of strategic partnerships abroad. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the role played by American universities in the internationalization of higher education as national systems of education respond to globalization. Through a discourse analysis, the authors apply world systems theory to the analysis of a single U.S. institution with several American institutions abroad in multiple periphery societies and ask the following questions: How do U.S. higher education institutions define global education? And in what ways do U.S. higher education institutions contribute to the countries they operate in?

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