Journal of Comparative and Intl Higher Ed

12/02/2025

[Call for Proposals] Submit your proposal to our Special Issue on 'International in East Asia: Evolving Roles, Identities and Realities'
This issue will feature empirical and conceptual work from Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. Topics include , , precarity, geopolitics, and the post-COVID academy. International faculty is broadly defined to include those working outside their country or cultural context of origin, as well as returnees -- scholars trained abroad who are re-adapting to academic life in their home countries. This includes faculty from the West, other parts of Asia, and the Global South.

The editors, Peter G. Ghazarian and Jonathan Damiani, welcome submissions exploring a wide range of topics, including:
- Identity, belonging, and pedagogy in diverse cultural contexts
- The impact of geopolitics and post-COVID adjustments on academic roles
- Labour precarity and the evolving landscape of faculty work
- The growing divide between "global" and "local" academic roles

The Special Issue will include research from across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Submission date for article proposals: 12 December 2025
Full articles are due on 31 May 2026

For questions, please do not hesitate to contact PPeter G. Ghazarianat Peter.Ghazarian(at)oswego.edu

Submit your paper here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/

10/24/2025

✨ Fresh off the press! Our 2025 Summer Special Issue, 17(4), has just been released!

Our guest editors, Mércia Regina Santana Flannery (The University of Pennsylvania), Oseas Bezerra Viana Júnior (Universidade Federal do Agreste de Pernmabuco), & Kleber Aparecido da Silva (Universidade de Brasília) have brought together four articles on "Alternative Multilingual Paradigms Using Translanguaging: Decolonising Strategies for Blacks and Indigenous Literacies in the Global South" to explore the pedagogy of Translanguaging worldwide.

Of course, open-access!

By Rosalind Latiner Raby, Published on 09/18/25

09/24/2025

⏱️ Deadline approaching!! Don't miss submitting to our 2026 Emerging Scholars Research Summaries by October 6!

One of the unique issues that the JCIHE publishes annually is the Emerging Scholars Summaries. Emerging Scholar Summaries are written by Graduate Students who are currently studying in a doctoral program or are recent PhD graduates. Each submission undergoes a double-masked peer review to ensure quality and continuity. The purpose of the Emerging Scholars Research Summaries is to share cutting-edge research that is of broad significance to the field of comparative and international higher education. For 2025, JCIHE published 13 articles that can be found here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/vol17/iss3/

📰 Submit your max 1,000-word summary (excluding references and tables) by 6 October 2025.

Articles must include a literature review, a theoretical focus, and a strong methods section. Articles must also share how the research contributes to the field of comparative and international higher education. Submissions must include a Letter of Support from the student’s Supervisor/chair indicating their approval for the publication.

💻 Submission link: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/policies.html

❓ Please send direct questions Dr. Rosalind Raby, the editor-in-chief, via email: [email protected]

09/24/2025

✨ Get involved with JCIHE!!!✨ We are seeking new volunteers to serve as peer reviewers, copy editors, or in our production team!

In our production team, you will contribute to the journal by formatting accepted articles in galley format and preparing them for publication.

Copy editors receive 1-3 articles annually to read for grammar, flow, APA, and context.

Peer Reviewers help evaluate submissions and provide recommendations with the intent of shaping the volume with coherence and depth of offerings.

To get involved, complete our registration form at https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/get-involved.html

For any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to the Editor-in-Chief, Rosalind Raby, at [email protected]

09/16/2025

[Call for Proposals] Submit your proposal to our Special Issue on 'International in East Asia: Evolving Roles, Identities and Realities'
The editors, Peter G. Ghazarian and Jonathan Damiani, welcome submissions exploring a wide range of topics, including:
- Identity, belonging, and pedagogy in diverse cultural contexts
- The impact of geopolitics and post-COVID adjustments on academic roles
- Labour precarity and the evolving landscape of faculty work
- The growing divide between "global" and "local" academic roles

The Special Issue will include research from across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Submit your paper here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/

09/02/2025

📢 Call for Submissions: 2026 Emerging Scholars Research Summaries

One of the unique issues that the JCIHE publishes annually is the Emerging Scholars hashtag Summaries. Emerging Scholar Summaries are written by Graduate Students who are currently studying in a doctoral program or are recent Ph.D. graduates. Each submission undergoes a double-masked peer review to ensure quality and continuity. The purpose of the Emerging Scholars Research Summaries is to share cutting-edge research that is of broad significance to the field of comparative and international higher education. For 2025, JCIHE published 13 articles that can be found here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/vol17/iss3/

Submit your max 1,000-word summary (excluding references and tables) by 30 September 2025.

Articles must include a literature review, a theoretical focus, and a strong methods section. Articles must also share how the research contributes to the field of comparative and international higher education. Submissions must include a Letter of Support from the student’s Supervisor/chair indicating their approval for the publication.

Submission link: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/policies.html

Please send direct questions Dr. Rosalind Raby, the editor-in-chief, via email: [email protected]

09/02/2025

🎉 Drumroll, please... Our brand-new website has officially landed! 🎉 Now you can easily find all the important author info for your submissions and browse volumes packed with great articles right here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/

So go ahead—grab your favorite snack, settle in, and dive into our latest 📜 Volume 17, Number 3 (2025) Special Issue: Emerging Scholars 2025.

Happy reading!

The Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education (JCIHE) (Print ISSN 2151-0393, Online ISSN 2151-0407) is an open-access, independent, and peer-reviewed journal that publishes original work in the field of comparative and international higher education.

07/01/2025

✨ Fresh off the press! Our new Emerging Scholars Research Summaries are out. ✨ This volume includes 13 articles from PhD students and early-career researchers from across the world, including:

Nidhi Piplani Kapur, Don O’Neill , Helen Murphy, Suzanne Denieffe (2025) Embedding Internationalization at Home – What do Irish HEIs need?

Andrea M Lane, Ph.D. Lane (2025) Innovating Higher Education - A Case Study of Challenger Universities in Africa

Torbet McNeil (2025) Comparative Data Science Education Policy and Management: United States and Europe

Iyonka Strawn-Valcy (2025) The Perceptions of Senior International Officers on Internationalization Strategies at Research Universities

Kudakwashe Muchena (PhD) & Tendai Muhle (2025) Ph.D. productions and employment prospects in Zimbabwe; imperative from Education 5.0 heritage-based education system.

Luman Zhou (2025) Reflections of International Chinese Postgraduates' Conceptualisation of Critical Thinking, taking one UK university as a case study.

Fatemeh Gharibi (2025) Highlighting LGBTQ+ International Students Activism via Participatory Theatre

Anas N. Almassri (2025) Decolonizing Links Between International Scholarships and Peace Insights from a Critical Realist Study in Palestine

Long Yat Ding (2025) Exploration of Language and Identities among Study Abroad Participants in Non-Anglophone Context: Experience of Asian International Students Studying Abroad in Belgium

Andreana Pastena (2025) Intercultural Interactions and Transcultural Competence in the Internationalized Classroom: A Mixed-Method Case Study

Sarang Kim (2025) “Even if I’m an international student, I have a voice and I should make a stand”: A Phenomenological inquiry into international students’ development of critical agency in U.S. higher education

Polly Penter (2025) Understanding and experiencing American identity during a single-semester study abroad program in London

Dr. Shilohna Phillanders (2025) Echoes In Autoethnography: A Reflexive Exploration Of Higher Education Service-Learning By A Caribbean Practitioner

Of course, all articles are open-access!

06/13/2025

Submission deadline coming up! Don't miss submitting your paper by July 1 to our Special Issue on , , and in the Internationalization of from Global Perspectives 👇

05/07/2025

✨ Our new 17(2) 2025 Issue is out!! ✨ The issue includes 12 articles and a book review on three broad themes: Systemic Inequities, Student Learning Strategies, and Institutional-Based Issues.

Of course, open-access! https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jcihe

05/07/2025

[Call for Proposals for Summer 2026 Special Issue] Examining , , and in the Internationalization of Higher Education from Global Perspectives

The Special Issue examines dynamics through which race and racism and the processes of racialization shape and are shaped by internationalization practices in higher education across global contexts. We invite contributors to center race as an analytical lens in examining internationalization practices. We define race as a socially, transnationally, and globally constructed system of categorization and hierarchy that impacts structures, institutions, policies, and individuals across global contexts. We recognize that race does not operate in isolation; it intersects with systems of oppression, including colonialism, xenophobia, class, caste, ethnicity, nationalism, nativism, and religion, creating complex, and at times hostile, conditions for those engaged in international academic activity.

Race and racism impact the ways internationalization is experienced through access and services, language dominance, research inequality, cultural imperialism, epistemic inequality, brain drain, superficial engagement, and the everyday experiences of racism and power asymmetry. Yet these ways are underdeveloped in international/comparative higher education literature.

The Special Issue welcomes theoretical analyses, empirical studies, methodological innovations, reflective accounts, and practice-based insights that critically engage with race, racism, and racialization processes in the internationalization of higher education.

We welcome proposals that move beyond U.S.- or Western-centric paradigms and offer insights from underrepresented regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Indigenous or diasporic communities.

Submit a 500-word proposal by July 1, 2025. Authors will be notified of their acceptance by August 1, 2025, with completed articles due by September 30, 2025. All articles undergo a double-masked peer review and must follow the JCIHE guidelines. Proposals can be submitted directly to the Guest Editors, Louise Michelle V., Jing Yu, Dr. Punita Lumb, and Benjamin Denga, at [email protected] or via the JCIHE website.

04/22/2025

📰 Highlighting from our 2024 Emerging Scholars Issue: "The Influences of External and Sideways Factors on the Introduction of English as a Medium of Instruction Programs in East Asian Countries"

The study by Sainbayar Gundsambuu examines the adoption of English as a medium of instruction in institutions in Mongolia, Japan, and South Korea, focusing on the factors that influence global university and international collaborations.

Of course, open access! https://ojed.org/jcihe/article/view/6734