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Racial Battle Fatigue And Black Male Higher Education Administrators, Joshua Walehwa Oct 2020

Racial Battle Fatigue And Black Male Higher Education Administrators, Joshua Walehwa

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Racial Battle Fatigue was first coined by Dr. William A. Smith as a theory describing the burnout of African Americans in higher education institutions. While much of the current research focuses on the faculty and student experiences, in various formats, this provides an autoethnography capturing the various phases of a Black Male higher education administrators experience with experiencing and coping through Racial Battle Fatigue. The belief behind this approach focuses on the value of storytelling and autoethnography in particular in research, the interconnected nature of life experiences that impact professional life as well as the reverse, and a call to …


Challenges Of Administering A Sino-U.S. Joint Venture Campus In China, Osman Ozturgut May 2007

Challenges Of Administering A Sino-U.S. Joint Venture Campus In China, Osman Ozturgut

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Abstract With the recent globalization movement and decline in foreign student enrollment in universities in developed countries like the U.S., universities are looking for ways to bring education to the student rather than waiting for students to come for education. Therefore, opening a branch campus abroad and bringing education to the student became an alternative for U.S. universities to bringing students to their campuses. This qualitative study explored the political, economic, socio-cultural, and educational challenges of administering a Sino-U.S. joint-venture campus in the People¿s Republic of China. China American University (CAU) is an educational joint venture between China Investment Company …