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Director of the Centre for the Study of Canadian & International Higher Education

Glen A. Jones is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, and former dean of the 91��. A globally recognized scholar in the field of higher education, Jones is a prolific contributor to the Canadian and international literature on higher education and a frequent public speaker and commentator on higher education issues. He has received numerous awards for his research and contributions to higher education scholarship, including an honorary degree. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Vivek Goel Citizenship Award. Prof. Jones teaches in the higher education program.

Research interests: Canadian higher education, governance, and politics; academic work

Core Faculty

Academic profession in the knowledge society study; teaching and learning in higher education; comparative and international higher education; international branch-campuses; internationalization; college student development; regional identity; higher education in Malaysia and the Arab Gulf

Globalization; neoliberalism; privatization of higher education, internationalization, and sustainable development

Large-scale assessments; admissions processes; evaluation systems

Postsecondary access; education policy; racially minoritized students; quantitative methods

Comparative & international higher education; comparative education theory; international academic relations; Chinese higher education

Curriculum theory; design and development; teaching and learning strategies; organization development; education research; leadership and change in education

Higher education administration and management; organizational leadership, decision-making, and change; administrators’ recruitment, careers, and performance

Maíra Tavares Mendes

Student transitions; Student experience; Access and retention policies in higher education; Critical pedagogy / popular education; Social movements/ Community-led institutional change

Science & technology policy; universities and economic development; entrepreneurship; organizational studies; policy analysis; research use

Native American/Indigenous college student experiences; Native American student affairs; Indigenous methodologies; critical race theories

Associate Members

Sandra Acker

Changes in academic work; the social production of academic research; gender and academe; women academics in leadership positions; doctoral student and graduate experiences; university tenure and other evaluative practices

Research and scholarship aimed at improving institutional performance, mainly in the areas of management, planning, budgeting, organization, and accountability

Relations between college (vocational) and university (higher) education in developed Anglophone countries

Sociology of knowledge and professions; minoritized faculty; non-dominant ways of knowing

Factors influencing design of higher education systems, and implications of different system designs for accessibility, quality, innovation, costs, and effectiveness of higher education in meeting social needs

Vocational education and training; community college; curriculum studies; labour market pathways; skills

Research Associates

Mary Catharine Lennon

International and comparative higher education research and policy development in areas including system design, accountability, quality assurance, and evaluation

Diane Barbarič

Canadian, international, and comparative higher education; higher education systems; public policy; outbound student mobility (student exchanges, internships abroad); education data; mixed methods

Cassidy Gong

Alison Elizabeth Jefferson

Doctoral and graduate student experience; equity and inclusion in higher education; the academic profession; sociology of education, with a specific focus on Bourdieu; governance and management of higher education systems and institutions

Leping Mou

Liberal arts education/general education; higher education teaching and learning, comparative international higher education; sociology of education; research methodology

Previous Visiting Scholars & Postdoctoral Fellows

Silvia Annen

Recognition of qualifications and competencies; informal and non-formal learning; qualification requirements in the commercial sector; international comparative (vocational) education research

Sociology of education; higher education policy; university governance and management; organizational studies

Yijia Jin

History of higher education in modern China; higher education policy in modern China; the relationship between the university and the government; history of women's education in modern China

Jakob Kost

Educational and labour market pathways; upper secondary and higher education policy; relation between education and labour market policy; international comparative (vocational) education research

Stephen MacGregor

Knowledge mobilization; research impact; mixed methods; network analysis; higher education institutions; research policy

Roger Pizarro Milian

Social Stratification; Organizational Behavior

Higher education policy; university governance and administration; international and comparative education; decolonization in higher education contexts