scholarly journals Minority Language Issues in Chinese Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice among the Korean and Mongol Ethnic Groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiyan Xiong ◽  
W. James Jacob ◽  
Huiyuan Ye
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Language Issues

Tactical evaluations: Everyday neoliberalism in academia

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Cannizzo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
University Governance ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Managerial Efficiency ◽  
Policy Agendas

Neoliberal political rationalities have transformed not only national policy agendas, but also the strategies that individuals adopt to navigate their everyday lives; sometimes described as ‘everyday neoliberalism’. This article explores everyday neoliberalism’s contribution to the transformation of workplace ethics through a case study of Australian academics. National higher education policy reforms have been mirrored by a transformation in academics’ perceptions of what forms of self-management are legitimate and necessary. While governmental reforms are couched in a language of technical efficiency and accountability to stakeholders, interviews with academics reveal depoliticising practices of evaluation. Values conflicts – between scholarly autonomy and managerial efficiency – are indicative of tactical struggles over the means by which academics evaluate their selves and their labour. The managerialisation of university governance has not eroded political and value commitments, but has encouraged academics to pursue more individualised forms of ethics, which re-affirm their compliance with managerial norms.

Sustaining Gender Parity in College Aid

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deondra Rose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Higher Education Act ◽  
Education Act

Chapter 4 considers how lawmakers used the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 to further entrench higher education programming in the fabric of US social policy and to amplify individual-level aid for college students. The HEA provides a valuable example of how “targeting within universalism” can help to generate broad political support for a social policy. Moreover, its creation provides a powerful example of the role that path dependency has played in the development of higher education policy. In addition to illustrating the significance of policy design to the political viability of social policy reforms, this case study highlights the pivotal role that executive leadership has played in the development of US higher education policy. Taken together, these forces were central to lawmakers’ ability to reinforce and build upon the gender-egalitarian higher education policy that had emerged during the late 1950s.

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