Hilary Houlette

This study examines the global common goods generated by transnational dual‐degree programmes between a United States public research university and its 11 partner institutions in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Peru. Grounded in the higher education as a global common good framework, the analysis shows how these programmes are perceived to produce pecuniary and non‐pecuniary goods. Non‐pecuniary goods, recognised as global common goods, include promoting reciprocal Global North–South partnerships, educational access, knowledge generation, and shared values. Meanwhile, pecuniary outcomes such as increased institutional revenue and student employability are perceived to enable the production of global common goods. The findings offer policymakers, practitioners, and researchers insights into the positive potential of a sustainable, equitable, and impactful model for transnational dual‐degree programmes. The study calls for a move beyond neocolonial, market‐driven approaches toward a more intentional focus on advancing global common goods.

The 2018 China Initiative systematically targeted international Chinese scholars as possible spies for China. Previous research has demonstrated ways that the China Initiative engaged in racial profiling, resulting in scholars of Chinese descent feeling unwelcomed in U.S. higher education institutions and insecure in their engagement as researchers. Graduate students were not exempt. Using descriptive analyses and proportion tests, this study explores the nuanced ways that Chinese graduate students felt discriminated against and racially profiled in comparison to their non-Chinese peers during the height of the U.S. China Initiative. Framed by neo-racism, this research also assesses how those experiences impacted students’ future educational mobility plans. Chinese graduate students feel more targeted than their non-Chinese peers and they expressed an interest in leaving the United States due to these negative perceptions. As international Chinese enrollments in the United States are declining, our study seeks to identify the factors that may contribute to this trend.

Given the geopolitical tensions involving western nations with China and Russia, this paper investigates the extent to which China and Russia have turned toward one another, or increased their scientific collaboration. It uses bibliometric data to examine trends in China-Russia co-publications from 2013 to 2022 and the value that collaboration ...

The 2018 China Initiative systematically targeted international Chinese scholars as possible spies for China. Previous research demonstrated ways that the China Initiative engaged in racial profiling, resulting in scholars of Chinese descent feeling unwelcomed in U.S. higher education institutions and insecure in their engagement as researchers. Graduate students were not exempt. This study explores the nuanced ways that Chinese graduate students felt discriminated against and racially profiled in comparison to their non-Chinese peers during the height of the U.S. China Initiative. Additionally, this research assesses how those experiences impacted students’ future educational mobility plans. As international Chinese enrollments in the United States are declining, our study seeks to identify the factors that may be contributing to this trend.