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Afterword: Reimagining Higher Education Internationalization As A Practice Of Racial Justice, Louise Michelle Vital, Jing Yu, Benjamin Denga

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This afterword reflects on the two-part special issue, “Examining Race, Racism, and Racialization in the Internationalization of Higher Education from Global Perspectives,” published in the Summer 2026 edition of the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education. Bringing together twenty-nine contributions, the issue centers race as foundational to how higher education internationalization is imagined, organized, practiced, and contested across global contexts. The afterword synthesizes key insights across both volumes, showing how internationalization is shaped by colonial histories, geopolitical inequalities, market logics, legal regimes, linguistic hierarchies, and racialized structures of belonging. Contributors challenge celebratory and neutral accounts of global engagement …

Selected Others In A Non-Western Host: Racialized Governance Of Southeast Asian Students In Taiwan’S Technical And Vocational Higher Education Under The New Southbound Policy, Chia-Ming Hsueh

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This article examines how Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy constructs and governs Southeast Asian students within higher education internationalization. Drawing on critical discourse and policy analysis of public policy documents, institutional materials, recruitment discourse, and related media sources from 2016 to 2024, the study argues that Southeast Asian students are positioned as “selected others”: welcomed as regional partners and future talent while also subject to differentiated forms of linguistic, administrative, and labor-oriented governance. Focusing particularly on Taiwan’s technical and vocational higher education sector, the analysis identifies three interrelated dynamics: selective inclusion by nationality and educational track, Mandarin as a technology of …

Advancing Equity Through Mentorship: Supporting Racialized Immigrant And International Students In Canadian Higher Education, Cecilia Bukutu Phd, Viola Manokore Dr, Michael Safo Ofori

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Mentorship initiatives have increasingly supported racialized students in Canada, yet gaps remain in addressing their intersectional needs. This study examines the experiences of Black postsecondary immigrant, refugee, and international students in the Mentorship and Resilience Project (MRP), a racially concordant mentorship initiative. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, data were drawn from interviews, focus groups, and post-workshop surveys. Guided by Anti-Black Racism and Intersectionality frameworks, the study explores how institutional diversity discourses may operate as non-performative practices that obscure structural inequities. Findings show students faced intersecting challenges related to migration status, race, and gender, marked by tensions between invisibility and hypervisibility. …

‘Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind’: Refugee Students And Internationalization Practices In Canadian Higher Education Institutions, Zuhra Abawi, Nidhi Menon

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

As of 2024, over 123 million people have been forcibly displaced due to war, persecution, climate catastrophe, and geopolitical instability. Among them, young people constitute a significant portion, many of whom aspire to rebuild their lives through higher education. Canada, a top destination for refugee resettlement, remains deeply inequitable for refugee access to postsecondary education. Although lauded for its commitments to diversity and inclusion, Canadian settler-colonial hierarchies and racialized politics of belonging continue to shape which displaced bodies are seen as deserving of education, opportunity, and protection. These dynamics underscore how forced migration, race, and higher education intersect within the …

Lost In Translation: How Higher Education Studies Conflates Latinx And International Latin American Experiences Through Misplaced Racialization, Eduardo Santander

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This autoethnographic study examines how higher education studies conflates international Latin American and domestic Latinx student experiences through what I term “misplaced racialization”, namely, the imposition of domestic racial categories onto international students that fundamentally misrecognizes their distinct positioning as temporary residents, adult-onset racialization subjects, and transnational knowledge holders. Colonial logics are not merely structural; they breathe through the field’s racial grammars. Drawing on Fricker’s (2007) hermeneutical injustice, I argue that higher education’s epistemological boundedness, its lack of native theory and reliance on borrowed American frameworks, does not merely contain colonial logics but is constituted by them, rendering those logics …

Seeing Through Indigenous Eyes: Language, Humility, And The Possibilities Of International Research, Janine E. Metallic

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This essay critically examines the internationalization of higher education through Indigenous epistemologies, asking: What might international research look like if guided by Indigenous values such as language, humility, and relationality? Drawing on Indigenous research methodologies and autoethnographic reflection, the essay explores how global academic norms, rooted in colonial legacies, often marginalize Indigenous ways of knowing. Theoretical constructs from Wilson (2008), Kovach (2021), and Smith (2021) inform the analysis, emphasizing relational accountability and ethical engagement. The discussion highlights that Indigenous language situates knowledge in place, humility resists prestige-driven scholarship, and relationality redefines research as reciprocal and community-centered. These insights challenge dominant …

Centering Positionality In Pursuit Of Combating Anti-Blackness In Study Abroad Via Intentional Pedagogical Design, Reka C. Barton, Taylor Woodman

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

In an attempt to address historical legacies entrenched in global learning, this case study (Yin, 2009) disrupts the white-centered norm of study abroad through intentional design and diversity of student participation. This study explores the question, In what ways did these design elements interrogate and/or disrupt occurrences of anti-Blackness? To answer this question, our case study site utilizes a long-standing graduate student study abroad fieldwork program in Cuba that explicitly discusses elements of race, identity, and nationality, with an emphasis on the unique and complex histories of manifestations of race in Cuba and the United States. This project interrogated how …

Mashin’ Up Stratified Blackness: Unpacking The Communal Responsibility Of Black International/Immigrant Academics To Black American Academics, Candice Peters, Abigail Smith

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Our duoethnographic inquiry, grounded in Intersectionality, addresses the following questions: How do intersectionality and internationalization complicate Black diasporic dynamics within the United States? What communal responsibilities do Black international/immigrant people hold toward Black American people within the U.S. academy? Through critical engagement with three previously published poems, we foreground the communal responsibility that arises at the hands of internationalization and unpack the intertwined realities of anti-Blackness, racialized hierarchies, and diasporic dynamics. Our findings unmask three themes: (1) evolving understandings of race across transnational contexts, (2) Black intraracial stratification, and (3) taking up responsibility. We conclude by urging a (re)commitment to …

The Myth Of Familiarity: Racialization & Intra-Faith Marginalization In Malaysian Islamic Higher Education, Rangga T. Nugraha

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This article examines how intra-faith marginalization operates within South–South international student mobility, challenging the assumption that shared religion and linguistic proximity facilitate belonging. Drawing on an autoethnographic study of an Indonesian Muslim scholarship student in Malaysian Islamic higher education, the analysis introduces the myth of familiarity as a critical conceptual framing, describing how shared religious or cultural identity may produce more granular hierarchies of legitimacy, thereby contradicting the belief that similarity guarantees inclusion. Using neo-racism and symbolic violence, three narrative vignettes illustrate how hierarchies of piety, nationality, and class are enacted and normalized within a shared Islamic context. The findings …

Settler-Colonial Entanglements: Using Par/Des(I) To Understand Black And Racialized International Student Experiences In Canada, Abu Arif

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This scholarly paper discusses the complex positioning of Black and Racialized international students (BRIS) in Canada, both as marginalized bodies and complicit in perpetuating settler colonialism. It delves into the paradoxical role these students play within the framework of Canadian higher education, which is deeply entwined with the country's colonial history and contemporary policy shifts aimed at managing the influx of international students. The Par/Des(i) decolonial research framework offers a pathway for understanding how BRIS are entangled within settler colonial structures, free from the limitations of the western gaze. The framework guides scholars toward recognizing hybridized ways of being and …

Critical Race Theory And Refugeecrit: A Reflective Account On Understanding The Structural Racism And Power Asymmetries Faced By Afghan Refugee Students In Universities In Delhi, Akanksha Dochania Dr

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Using Critical Race Theory and RefugeeCrit, this study examines structural racism and power asymmetries facing Afghan refugee students in Delhi universities. Drawing on eighteen in-depth interviews, analysis reveals four interconnected themes: (1) invisibility/hypervisibility paradoxes—students are academically voiceless yet constantly surveilled; (2) epistemic inequality—their trauma is extracted while intellectual contributions are dismissed; (3) pedagogical microaggressions—deficit assumptions erode confidence; and (4) institutional gatekeeping—documentation barriers perpetuate marginalization. Findings show that access-oriented policies are insufficient, as neutral-sounding rules reinforce systemic hierarchies. Reflexive thematic analysis underscores researcher positionality in meaning-making. The study expands CRT and RefugeeCrit within the Indian context, urging faculty training, curricular inclusion …

Principles For An Antiracist And Decolonial Internationalization Based On "Pedagogy In Process: The Letters To Guinea-Bissau" By Paulo Freire, Bruno Pereira De Souza Andrade, Alexandre José Cadilhe

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This paper critically reflects on possible paths toward an antiracist and decolonial internationalization of higher education, grounded in the ethical, political, and pedagogical principles of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau. Theoretically and reflectively oriented, it combines an analytical reading of Freire’s work with a narrative synthesis of critical and decolonial studies on internationalization. The analysis is structured around three axes: (i) Decolonizing to internationalize; (ii) Internationalization as a practice of freedom; and (iii) Challenges and pathways for antiracist institutional practices. Given the commonly market-oriented character of internationalization, which perpetuates colonial legacies, Freire’s work provides a powerful …

Rules, Risk, And Racialization: Chinese International Students’ Experiences With Compliance And Care Through Non-Academic Misconduct Policies In U.S. Higher Education, Haishan Yang

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This qualitative study examines how first-year Chinese international students (CIS) understand misconduct policies and procedures, and how those experiences relate to belonging. Drawing on interviews with 14 Chinese international undergraduates at a private research university, the study applies AsianCrit and IntlCrit to analyze how race, foreignness, and noncitizen status shape students’ encounters with institutional policy. Findings show students often learned misconduct policies through a hidden curriculum of compliance without clear institutional teaching. Participants described uncertainty and fear about the adjudication process and racialized experiences of hierarchy, otherness, and visa-related risk. Policies were accepted as necessary but rarely associated with trust …

Implementing Anti-Racism Pedagogies In Internationalized Higher Education: Instructor Perspectives From A Community College, Benjamin Denga, Wanda Chell, Caylee R. Kreller

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This study examines how instructors in internationalized community college programs engage with a co‑developed Anti‑Racism Curriculum & Pedagogy Toolkit designed to support anti‑racist teaching in highly diverse learning environments. The internationalization of higher education often foregrounds mobility, intercultural competence, and institutional prestige while underexamining racialized power relations and obscuring the racialized hierarchies and colonial legacies that shape knowledge production, pedagogy, and the daily experiences of students and instructors. Drawing on a convergent mixed‑methods design, the study integrates survey data (n=42), interviews (n=15), and focus groups to assess the toolkit’s perceived relevance, pedagogical impact, and institutional conditions shaping its uptake. Findings …

Introduction To Special Issue 18(5), Louise Michelle Vital, Jing Yu, Benjamin Denga

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This special issue centers race as an analytical lens in the internationalization of higher education from global perspectives. Contributors investigate how internationalization is structured through legal regimes, institutional practices, and epistemic norms that differentially position students and scholars across contexts. The articles are organized around five interconnected themes that collectively advance a critical, equity-oriented vision of internationalization: (1) Indigenous perspectives and decolonial knowledge systems, (2) legal status and institutional regulation, (3) differentiated identities and belonging in internationalization, (4) refugee student inclusion and invisibility, and (5) pedagogical and epistemic interventions.

Across diverse geographic and methodological approaches, the contributions from scholars, professors, …

Introduction To Jcihe 18(5) 2026 Issue Summer 2026 Special Issue Part 2 Special Issue 18(5) Introduction, Rosalind L. Raby

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Pdf Full Issue, Rosalind L. Raby

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Job Satisfaction Among Librarians In South-West, Nigeria, Gladys Irene Ogunleye Mrs, Peter Olufemi Owoeye Mr, Ojo Adereolu, Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examined job satisfaction among university librarians in Southwest Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design of the correlational type was adopted for the study. The population comprised university librarians in public and private universities in Southwest Nigeria, while a sample of 180 librarians was drawn from six selected universities using a multi-stage sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled “Job Satisfaction among University Librarians Questionnaire (JSULQ),” which was validated through face and content validation by experts in Library and Information Science and Educational Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was established using …

Towards A Framework For Counselling Information Behaviour Of Pastors In Small Communities, Bernard Kofi Adinkrah, Paul Asante, Monica Mensah Danquah, Florence Entsua-Mensah, Philip Kwaku Kankam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Bioactive Potential Of Microbial Isolates From Yoluja Cave And Jepirramüin Rock Shelter, Cabo De La Vela (Colombia), Juan Sebastián López Caro, Virginia Patricia Roa Angulo, Alex Alberto González Vargas

International Journal of Speleology

Subterranean environments harbor diverse microbial communities with significant potential for the production of bioactive compounds. This study evaluated the antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of microbial isolates obtained from Yoluja Cave and the Jepirramüin rock shelter, located in the coastal region of La Guajira, Colombia. Field sampling was conducted during three campaigns in July, September, and November 2025, including soil and surface samples collected along environmental gradients within each site. Microorganisms were isolated using selective culture media and identified through morphological and biochemical characterization. Selected strains were subjected to liquid fermentation and organic solvent extraction to obtain crude metabolites. Analysis of …

A Narrative-Driven, Socratic Instructional Framework For Teaching Adversarial Cognition In Cybersecurity, Joshua K. Goossen

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

The Socratic method has demonstrated, in studies across law, medicine, and nursing, that dialectic structured questioning improves expert reasoning. Cybersecurity currently teaches tools and techniques but lacks Socratic dialogic leaving graduates underprepared for novel scenarios requiring cross-domain reasoning. Because law, medicine and nursing cultivate similar reasoning as security there is principled reason to expect reasoning benefits could transfer to security students. This paper argues that the correspondence warrants investigation. Investigation requires a named, teachable reasoning target analogous to clinical reasoning and we specify that target as adversarial cognition, a framework integrating adversary features, system architecture, implementation logic, governance structure, human …

Dysphagia Lusoria From A Right-Sided Aortic Arch With Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery And Kommerell Diverticulum, John R. Stevenson, Eitan Scheinthal, Nishkarsh Kumar, Nilay Kumar

Aurora GME

Introduction: Esophageal dysphagia is classically attributed to mechanical obstruction (solidsfirst progression) or motility disorders (mixed solid and liquid). A third, underemphasized mechanism is extrinsic vascular compression. Dysphagia lusoria results from compression by an aberrant subclavian artery, at whose origin a Kommerell diverticulum (KD) may form. The typical anatomy pairs a left aortic arch with aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA); the rarer mirror image is a right arch with aberrant left subclavian artery (ALSA), which forms a true vascular ring with the ligamentum arteriosum. Case Description: A 56-year-old woman presented with 18 months of worsening intolerance to both solids and liquids, …

Obstructing Periampullary Duodenal Gangliocytic Paraganglioma Managed With En Bloc Endoscopic Mucosal Resection After Prolonged Surveillance, John R. Stevenson, Arsh Momin, Sahibzada U. Latif

Aurora GME

Introduction: Gangliocytic paraganglioma (GP) is a rare, typically periampullary duodenal neuroendocrine neoplasm. Although often indolent, GP may cause bleeding, pain, and obstruction. Submucosal location and triphasic histology hinder preoperative diagnosis. We report a periampullary GP followed as a presumed spindle-cell lesion until melena and obstruction prompted en bloc endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), avoiding pancreaticoduodenectomy. Case Description: In 2017, computed tomography angiography for vascular evaluation incidentally identified a 35 mm soft tissue mass in the second portion of the duodenum. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) showed mass effect with normal mucosa. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) fine-needle aspiration was nondiagnostic; repeat EUS fine-needle biopsy showed a …

Discordant Imaging In Rapidly Progressive Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis: Gangrenous Perforation Within 48 Hours, John R. Stevenson, Charlotte Hunt, Meklit Hunde, Ahmed Abdelmagid

Aurora GME

Introduction: Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) accounts for 5-10% of cholecystitis cases and carries higher mortality than calculous disease, particularly in debilitated patients. Diagnosis is challenging because findings are subtle and cross-sectional imaging is often nonspecific. We report a case of rapidly progressive AAC in which CT and right upper quadrant (RUQ) ultrasound underestimated disease severity, with hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scintigraphy establishing the diagnosis. Case Description: A 64-year-old nursing home resident with dementia, prior strokes, and type 2 diabetes presented with one day of diffuse abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. She was afebrile, heart rate 106, white blood cell (WBC) …

Beyond Argon Plasma Coagulation: Band-Based Therapy For Nodular Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia — A Case Series, John R. Stevenson, Chimezirim Ezeano, Mahnoor Kashif, Khaled Alsabbagh Alchirazi, Tarun Kaura, Chetal Mittal, Nishkarsh Kumar, Nilay Kumar

Aurora GME

Introduction: Argon plasma coagulation (APC) is traditional therapy for gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE), but nodular disease may not fully respond to superficial ablation. Endoscopic band ligation (EBL) may achieve durable eradication by capturing nodular mucosa. We describe five high-risk patients with nodular/friable GAVE managed with band-based therapy. Case Description/Methods: Five patients were identified via retrospective chart review (non-human-subjects determination). Four had cirrhosis with portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) and/or varices; one had advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) with cardiovascular disease and anemia. Patient A, a woman in her 30s with decompensated cirrhosis (drug-induced vs metabolic alcoholassociated liver disease), presented with …

Postpartum Flare Unmasking Autoimmune Hepatitis After Apparent Resolution Of Drug-Induced Liver Injury In Pregnancy, John R. Stevenson, Chimezirim Ezeano, Gregory Capelli, Jaimy Villavicencio Kim

Aurora GME

Introduction: Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) can present as a drug-induced autoimmune-like hepatitis (DI-ALH) phenotype, mimicking idiopathic autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) on clinical, serologic, and histologic grounds. Pregnancy introduces further diagnostic complexity, as gestational immunotolerance may suppress AIH activity, potentially obscuring the underlying diagnosis until postpartum immune rebound unmasks the disease. Case Description/Methods: A 33-year-old woman with prior mild aminotransferase elevations was hospitalized for pyelonephritis with Escherichia coli bacteremia and treated with amoxicillin–clavulanate. Aminotransferases peaked at aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 788 U/L (30× the upper limit of normal [ULN]) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) 1,141 U/L (46× ULN), downtrending at discharge, raising concern for …

シオンからの便りシリーズ, Ryuichi Inouye

Spiritual Proficiency

長年教会の教育部門に携わり、とりわけ若い世代との関わりを大切にしてこられた井上兄弟は、豊かな福音知識だけでなく、日々の小さな出来事にも心を配る「実践の人」として知られています。伝道会長、地区代表、神殿会長など、多岐にわたる奉仕を通して培われた独自の視点が、本書のいたるところに息づいています。

収録されているメッセージの数々は、井上兄弟が率いる「シオンのグループ」へ宛てて書き送られた記事を、ほぼ原文のまま年代順にまとめたものです。１つ１つが２～３分で読める分量なので、まずは通読して全体の流れをつかみ、その後トピックごとに立ち止まりながら、日々の生活に少しずつ取り入れていただければと思います。今後は音声やビデオ、エッセイなど多様な形での展開も計画しており、本資料はBYU ScholarsArchiveの「Spiritual Proficiency」セクションに掲載されます。皆さんご自身の霊的な経験も、ぜひお寄せください。

Prescribing Patterns For Treatment Of Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: A Retrospective Chart Review Across Two Dermatology Clinical Settings, Kennedy Cook

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Beyond The Inflamed Segment: Early-Onset Lymphoglandular Complex-Like Ascending Colon Adenocarcinoma After Complicated Sigmoid Diverticulitis, John R. Stevenson, Chimezirim Ezeano, Tarun Kaura

Aurora GME

Introduction: Colonoscopy is recommended after complicated diverticulitis to exclude malignancy. Lymphoglandular complex-like colorectal carcinoma (LGCC) is a rare, recently characterized variant in which invasive carcinoma is encased by lymphoid stroma, mimicking adenomas with lymphoglandular complexes. We describe LGCC in the proximal ascending colon discovered after complicated sigmoid diverticulitis in a young woman. Case Description/Methods: A 39-year-old woman with no family history of gastrointestinal malignancy presented with left lower quadrant pain and hematochezia. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated acute sigmoid diverticulitis with foci of extraluminal gas concerning for microperforation, without abscess. She was treated with intravenous ceftriaxone and metronidazole, then oral ciprofloxacin …

Did We Build What We Promised? Evaluating Maker Culture And Practice At A Public Historically Black University​, Harvey D. Long, Nicole Whetsel, Darian Quick

Faculty Publications

In 2021, F.D. Bluford Library at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (North Carolina A&T) received a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to establish a makerspace to expand access to making, support project-based learning, and foster a sense of belonging at North Carolina A&T. Although the College of Engineering has a makerspace, North Carolina A&T did not have one available to students across all majors.

North Carolina A&T is a public, land-grant historically Black university, serving more than 15,000 students. As an institution with a longstanding emphasis on STEM education, entrepreneurship, and innovation, North Carolina A&T provides …