University System Research Articles

Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism

Is memory studies experiencing an activist turn? What discourses and practices surround such a pronouncement, and what forms of forgetting might such an assertion usher in? This commentary explores recent claim-making around memory studies’ activist turn and seeks to understand its provocations and critiques. It anchors these discourses within a wider constellation of scholar-activism, paying particular attention to citational politics and memory, activist forms of knowledge making, resource distribution, and the politics and precarities of the contemporary university system.

Scientometric analysis of global cyber security research output based on Web of Science

Objective. This study aims to analyze global cyber security research using various scientometric indicators for 25 years, from 1999 to 2023. Design/Methodology/Approach. The study used the Web of Science international citation database to retrieve a total of 5,640 records. The records were extracted in the CSV file format and further analyzed using an MS-Excel spreadsheet, VosViewer, and Biblioshiny software. Findings. The findings revealed that a 300% annual growth rate was recorded for the publications in 2002. The USA emerged as the top contributor (31.15%) among the countries. The authors affiliated with the State University System of Florida have more publications (107 contributions). Authors Lingfeng Wang of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo of the University of Texas at San Antonio have contributed the equal and highest number of (21) papers. Originality/Value. Cyber security research helps to guardian the individual or nation’s digital sovereignty, protecting it against sophisticated cyber threats and potential attacks. The discipline has become the subject of global research. This study helps cyber security experts, software or web developers, and researchers identify the primary research evidence and its impact on the research community and policymakers for evidence-based policymaking to combat invisible global threats.

Implementation of Internal Quality Audit at IKesT Muhammadiyah Palembang

The Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI) in universities has an important role in the implementation and improvement of the quality of educational services provided by universities. One of the ways to evaluate the fulfillment of the higher education standards in question is through the Internal Quality Audit (AMI) process. The implementation of AMI at IKesT Muhammadiyah Palembang has been carried out well and has had a positive impact on improving the quality of higher education implementation and has also referred to SPMI and the PPEPP cycle. The Quality Assurance Institute (LPM) reported the results of the AMI training to the Rector of IKesT Muhammadiyah Palembang and invited all leaders of faculties, study programs and work units to present the results of the AMI that had been implemented, with this the rector can know where the weaknesses and shortcomings need to be improved and improved in order to create Good University Governance (GUG).

Construction and Practice of Education and Teaching Quality Assurance Systems in Applied Colleges and Universities under the Background of Digital Intelligence

This paper discusses the optimization strategy of education and teaching quality assurance systems in applied colleges and universities under the background of digital intelligence. It first summarizes the relevant theories of digital intelligence transformation and analyzes the impact of digital intelligence transformation on higher education. Secondly, this paper puts forward the principles of constructing the quality assurance system of applied colleges, including strengthening the quality assurance consciousness, improving teachers’ digital literacy, and implementing digital intelligence governance. From the practical perspective, this paper expounds on strategies such as optimizing educational teaching resource allocation, constructing a diversified evaluation system of teaching quality, strengthening the construction and training of teaching staff, and innovating teaching management methods. Specific optimization measures are put forward, such as improving policies, regulations, and system guarantees, strengthening cooperation between schools and enterprises, integrating industry, school, and research, building an educational information platform, and improving the monitoring and feedback mechanism of educational quality.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ISSUES OF IMPROVING NATIONAL LEGISLATION ON COUNTERING EXTREMISM

The article examines the legislation of foreign countries – China, Moldova, Belarus, dedicated to countering extremism, as well as the provisions of the Model Law «On Countering Extremism» adopted at the thirty-second plenary session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS member States; the concepts of «extremism» and «terrorism» in national legislation are analyzed. The authors note that the definition of the concept of «extremism» in the current Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «On Countering Extremism» has a number of disadvantages that contribute to the confusion of the concepts of «extremism» and «terrorism». This, in turn, generates a number of conflicts in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan: some crimes can be attributed to both extremism and terrorism. And ultimately, this can lead to a distortion of statistics on these crimes. Based on the results of the comparative analysis, it is proposed to introduce a number of novelties into the national legislation on countering extremism, including a new article regulating prosecutor's supervision as the highest supervision in the field of countering extremism. The authors assign an important place in countering extremism to its prevention. Special attention should be paid to preventive measures among schoolchildren and young people as the most vulnerable and psychologically immature part of the population. In particular, a tangible effect is expected from the introduction of the relevant subject into both the school curriculum and the university education system. In general, among the measures to counter extremism, the authors highlight the improvement of legislation; public involvement in countering extremism; initiatives aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue, increasing media literacy and strengthening interpersonal ties.

Academic Degrees for Monks: Sera Je and the Challenges of Integrating Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Education into the Indian University System

Although there have been concerted efforts to integrate Tibetan Buddhist monastic education into the Indian university system since the 1960s, the attainment of academic accreditation has tended to require significant curricular trade-offs. The majority of Tibetan Buddhist monastic colleges have therefore eschewed the potential advantages of academic accreditation—including greater opportunities for monastic graduates in universities and other secular contexts—in order to preserve the rigour of traditional scholastic programmes. However, through its affiliation to the University of Mysore in 2022, the Geluk monastery of Sera Je is now able to award accredited Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees even without making significant changes in practice to its traditional curriculum and pedagogy. This article examines the structure and content of Sera Je’s new programmes and contextualises what may prove to be a landmark development against the backdrop of previous attempts to negotiate the boundary between Tibetan Buddhist monastic education and university education in India. It suggests that the accreditation of research programmes raises further challenges in addition to those associated with the accreditation of taught programmes. Nonetheless, the urgency of solving these longstanding issues appears to have been heightened by a developing crisis in Tibetan Buddhist monastic recruitment. In investigating the topic of academic accreditation, this article throws light on an issue that has driven notable evolutions in Tibetan Buddhist monastic education in India but has previously received little scholarly attention.

An Exploration of the Legal Aid System in Colleges and Universities in the New Era from the Perspective of Realist Legal Education

The construction of university legal aid is an important part of China’s legal aid system, and also an important reform task in deepening the reform of the judicial system proposed by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. However, as China’s legal education mode is still dominated by traditional theoretical teaching and case teaching methods, teachers’ pure compulsory guidance, as the main body of legal aid organizations in colleges and universities, will inevitably increase their research pressure. Students’ voluntary participation takes up a lot of time and increases their academic pressure, and the development of legal aid organizations in colleges and universities also falls into a dilemma. From the perspective of realistic legal education, this paper deeply studies the development model of legal aid center, pursues the rationality of the legal aid system in colleges and universities, and proposes to formulate the grading standard of legal aid in colleges and universities from the construction and ontology dimension of legal aid system in colleges and universities. The legal aid system of colleges and universities should be improved from four aspects: party building, social union, student organization, and network operation. This puts forward the university legal aid “1+4” solution measures. Through exploring the common measures of legal aid construction in universities, the legal aid of universities has become an important force in the development of public legal service causes in the country.

Large language models, social demography, and hegemony: comparing authorship in human and synthetic text

Large language models have become popular over a short period of time because they can generate text that resembles human writing across various domains and tasks. The popularity and breadth of use also put this technology in the position to fundamentally reshape how written language is perceived and evaluated. It is also the case that spoken language has long played a role in maintaining power and hegemony in society, especially through ideas of social identity and “correct” forms of language. But as human communication becomes even more reliant on text and writing, it is important to understand how these processes might shift and who is more likely to see their writing styles reflected back at them through modern AI. We therefore ask the following question: who does generative AI write like? To answer this, we compare writing style features in over 150,000 college admissions essays submitted to a large public university system and an engineering program at an elite private university with a corpus of over 25,000 essays generated with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to the same writing prompts. We find that human-authored essays exhibit more variability across various individual writing style features (e.g., verb usage) than AI-generated essays. Overall, we find that the AI-generated essays are most similar to essays authored by students who are males with higher levels of social privilege. These findings demonstrate critical misalignments between human and AI authorship characteristics, which may affect the evaluation of writing and calls for research on control strategies to improve alignment.

A persistent gender pay gap among faculty in a public university system.

Despite movements towards gender parity within academia, women faculty continue to be paid less than men. While previous research has explained the gap using academic rank/seniority and productivity, existing findings are limited by either their examination of base pay or reliance on self-reported data. Here we extend the analysis beyond base pay, link faculty salary records of one public university system in the U.S. to the OpenAlex bibliometric database, and separately analyze the gender pay gap in the base (grade) and other pay (off-grade). Using stepwise regression models, we find that faculty rank accounts for a significant gap in the base pay while performance-based variables such as H-index or specialization do not play a crucial role. For other pay, no variables stand out in explaining the substantial pay gap between women and men faculty. Our results suggest that a primary source of the remaining gender pay gap is the off-grade pay. Different policy approaches are required to reduce the gender pay gap depending on the specific type of salary being targeted.

THE ORIGIN OF ACADEMIC WRITING STYLE IN KAZAKH LINGUISTICS

It is well known, that academic writing becomes an independent branchof Kazakh linguistics and covers not onlyscientific texts’ writing, as well as all types of written work performed in secondaryschools, special and higher educational institutionsthat areincluded in the academic writing discourse’sscope. In this article we determine the foundations for the development and formation of this field based on the domestic scientists’ worksby conducting the empirical research. The aim of the article isa review of works in the field of stylistics to determine the factors that influenced to the emergence of academic writing in the educational space of our countryand to identify its branching out as a separate scientific style.Theoretical significance of the article contributes to the formation of the foundations and theory of academic writing development in the country, as well as the history of the formation, research of academic writing in Kazakh science. Furthermore, in order to highlight the prerequisitesfor the formation of academic discourselanguage, issues of language terminology arediscussedin presented article.The article is of great practical importance, because the results obtained in the article can be used in a three-level education system (bachelor, master and doctoral) in universities, in teaching students entering into written communication in a new integrated environment.

In the Middle: Work-Life Integration of Mid-Level Women Leaders in a Rural Community College System

In the Middle: Work-Life Integration of Mid-Level Women Leaders in a Rural Community College System

Adoption of virtual library systems and services in university libraries: an empirical investigation from the Punjab, Pakistan

Purpose This study aims to identify the status of virtual library system development in university libraries. It also attempted to examine the availability of virtual library services and reveal the challenges being faced by university librarians of Punjab province, Pakistan in providing virtual library services. Design/methodology/approach The study used a quantitative research method by using a questionnaire to address the study’s objectives. In total, 62 university libraries in Punjab province, Pakistan were the population of the study. A purposive sampling technique was applied to gather the required data from the respondents. Findings Results showed that most of the study’s respondents are well aware of the potential benefits of virtual library systems in universities for the delivery of innovative smart services to library patrons. The libraries delivered different virtual library services to meet the diverse needs of the library patrons. The respondents faced the challenges of funding, expertise, technical support, leadership, strategic planning and training to adopt virtual library systems and services in university libraries. Originality/value The study has provided a framework based on empirical findings of the study to efficiently adopt virtual library systems and services in university libraries for the delivery of smart services to end users. It has provided pertinent theoretical and practical implications.

University system & multiple enrollment policy: dropout and graduation clusters

University system & multiple enrollment policy: dropout and graduation clusters

Anthropologie argentine

Argentine Anthropology is a discipline of disciplines—sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, ethnohistory, folklore and ethnology, biological anthropology and forensic anthropology—whose first academic exponents date back to the end of the 19th century. It accompanied studies in the United States and Western and Central Europe and developed in close relationship with the institutions of the Argentine State, particularly educational, military and those dedicated to population policies and territorial definition. It was characterized by applying to a country that exported temperate products, with little need for intensive and slave labour, with repeated state intervention to the University system, and with an extensive overseas immigrant population. After a relatively conservative period, anthropology became one of the most innovative and reference disciplines in the Argentine social sciences.

Affordable and sustainable clean energy generation potentials from municipal dumpsites: case study of Oke saje dumpsite, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

The operating method of final waste disposal in Oke saje area of Abeokuta is direct open dumping and burning. This study was conducted at a major dumpsite in Abeokuta, to investigate the existing waste management systems, characterize solid wastes generated, and estimate for the sustainable energy generation potentials. Exploratory study design was adopted for a period of six (6) months, May to November, 2023. Seven (7) randomly selected plots of 1sq.m were located on Oke saje dumpsite, from where solid wastes were collected from top to the depth of 300 mm. Waste components were weighed to obtain the weight-based characterizations. Sorting into major waste components was in accordance with College and University Recycling Council (CURC) grouping system with modifications to accommodate peculiar waste stream generated in Oke saje dumpsite. Waste samples were taken to laboratory to carry our necessary physical, chemical and proximate analyses. Estimated total solid waste generation in Oke- saje, dumpsite was 3,718,832.03 kg (3718.83 tonnes). Estimated energy content of solid wastes was 46370.47MJ. This implies that there is possibility of electricity generation up to 12.881MWh from daily steam production. An integrated solid waste management concept adoptable to Oke- saje, dumpsite, has zero waste concept of about 46 % waste material recyclable (from composting, bio-fuel production and recyclables), with electricity generating potential of 5.923 KWh and 56 % energy recovery (from electricity generation, incineration-derived ash and residual ash for landfilling or soil enhancement), of about 6.956 KWh. Considering the high material recyclability, reusability and energy recovery potentials from solid wastes generated from Oke saje dumpsite, it was recommended that the Ogun State Waste Management Authority adopts affordable, sustainable and integrated waste management options of waste minimization and sorting from the source, reuse, recycling, and incineration of solid waste generated from the large communities within the state.

Relationship between artificial intelligence and legal education: A bibliometric analysis

This study aims to explore past research trends and identify key future directions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and legal education. The study’s data were gathered from the Scopus database, comprising 68 selected documents spanning from 1999 to 2024. The research methodology involves the use of VOSviewer software for bibliometric analysis. The results reveal that research on artificial intelligence and legal education, while still limited, has been undertaken in various countries, focusing on five primary research directions, including: (1) Improving technical education systems in colleges and universities through educational technology and modern legal learning systems; (2) Application of artificial intelligence and algorithms in the legal field; (3) Applying computational theory and e-learning technology in legal education; (4) Legal education and legal knowledge; (5) Digital transformation in the field of legal training. Based on the research results, five future research directions on this topic are also proposed, including: (1) Application of artificial intelligence in analyzing and predicting legal trends; (2) Artificial intelligence in personalizing the legal learning experience; (3) Artificial intelligence and legal professional ethics; (4) Development of artificial intelligence tools supporting legal teaching and research; and (5) Integration of artificial intelligence into online learning systems for legal education.

Exploring Economic & Workforce Development Alignment: A Content Analysis of California’s Community College Baccalaureate Program Applications

Objective: Community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs are expanding across the nation, particularly in California—home of the largest and most ethnically/racially diverse community college system in the nation. CCB programs provide many benefits, two of which include providing an accessible and affordable pathway towards baccalaureate attainment, and also meeting economic and workforce development (EWD) goals, particularly for students from historically minoritized communities. While the community colleges of the United States have historically provided accessible education that aligns with EWD, more can be learned about the strategies these institutions use to do so. Methods: Using a content analysis methodology, we examined the application proposals of the first 15 approved CCB programs in California to understand how these community colleges as aligned with EWD. Results: The findings we generated suggest that the first 15 approved California CCB colleges (1) utilized varied information and sources to understand their labor market conditions, (2) rarely acknowledged how their CCB programs would address student inequities in the labor market, and (3) were limited in articulating the specific practices, structures, and systems they would implement to be EWD-aligned. Conclusion: Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers can help ensure successful EWD alignment and equity by improving data systems to better understand labor market conditions, conducting more quantitative and qualitative research to capture students’ labor market experiences and outcomes, and comprehensively aligning college- and career-related practices, programs, structures, and systems.

‘My research agenda may never recover’: pandemic work-life demands and obstacles to career advancement for faculty mothers

ABSTRACT Historically, university systems have maintained gender inequities that facilitate promotion and advancement for Caucasian men, while creating barriers to career advancement for women and marginalised groups. Significant obstacles have existed for faculty mothers who have attempted to fulfill responsibilities as both mother and worker, particularly amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. The purpose of this study is to explore how, during the health crisis, faculty mothers perceived their experiences to impact their research productivity. Based on demographic and open-ended questionnaire data from 134 study participants in the United States, the findings suggest that as supportive duties demanded participants’ prompt attention, research was pushed to the side, resulting in perceived threats to faculty mothers’ careers. Given the value many institutions place on publications in the hiring, tenure, and promotion process, decreased or stalled publications could result in career repercussions. Specifically, participants viewed losses in research productivity as hindering job mobility for adjuncts and instructors; creating barriers to tenure and promotion for tenure-track faculty; and stalling career advancement for tenured faculty.

Digital transformation of the scientific and technical information management system in Chinese universities

Digital transformation of the scientific and technical information management system in Chinese universities

The politics of distraction in English-medium higher education across three global settings: a collaborative autoethnography

ABSTRACT English-medium instruction (EMI) is on the rise around the world due to globalization, internationalization and neoliberal ideologies which equate English with social capital, prestige, and success in the labour market. While many EMI policies aim to equip students with English as a ‘lingua academia’, produce ‘neoliberal subjects’ and compete in university ranking systems, such policies often overlook larger sociolinguistic, sociohistorical, and sociopolitical issues at play. This article shares findings from a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) involving the three authors as participants, who are based in three global contexts: Australia, Bangladesh, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Upon analysis of a series of dialogues amongst the authors, ‘policy distractions’ in EMI higher education were identified which resulted in the sidelining of critical issues related to native-speakerism, translingual discrimination and precarious conditions of students’ translingual practice, (lack of) choice around the medium of instruction, and the postcolonial legacy of unequal Englishes. The paper ends with suggestions for ways in which current EMI policies can be unpacked and disrupted to address larger and more pressing issues connected with complexities and intersections of social and linguistic justice.