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Jonathan W. Carrier; Mark A. Perkins; W. Reed Scull – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
The existing research on community college faculty attrition has focused on such internal institutional factors as faculty work life and morale. Few studies have examined factors outside of an institution's control that may influence faculty attrition and no studies to date have examined such factors in a sample of rural-serving community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Rural Areas
Kivunja, Charles; Shizha, Edward – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
With its origin in Greek where "diaspora" as a noun means "a dispersion" or as a verb means to "scatter about", the term is used in this paper to refer to the dispersion or scattering of Africans from their original African homeland and now live in countries other than their own. Indeed some Africans have dispersed…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Social Capital, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries
Tucker, Christine M.; Torres-Pereda, Pilar; Minnis, Alexandra M.; Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
We explored migration decisions using in-depth, semistructured interviews with male and female youth ages 14 to 24 (n = 47) from two Mexican communities, one with high and one with low U.S. migration density. Half were return migrants and half were nonmigrants with relatives in the United States. Migrant and nonmigrant youth expressed different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Migration Patterns, Semi Structured Interviews
Bosworth, Gary; Atterton, Jane – Rural Sociology, 2012
The social, cultural, and economic transitions in rural areas across the globe lead us to critique the traditional "top-down" or "bottom-up" distinction as being outdated for contemporary rural policy. In Europe and the United States in particular, high rates of counterurbanization heighten the need for new ways of thinking…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Rural Development, Social Networks
Britez, Rodrigo; Peters, Michael A. – Policy Futures in Education, 2010
This article discusses some of the issues that surround the internationalization of higher education as a way to open discussion about the construction of an alternative cosmopolitical vision of the university, necessary if the university is to fulfill any historic tasks concerning the creation of globally aware citizens. The authors indicate that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism
Corbett, Mike – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2006
A focus on rurality has been largely absent from much contemporary educational policy discussion. At best, rural education is a peripheral concern just as rural areas are increasingly considered marginal to the development of a globalized, networked, fast capitalism. In Canada rural, coastal, northern, and single-industry communities that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Urban Culture, Rural Areas