Global Scholars as Ambassadors of Knowledge
This chapter discusses the challenges that global scholars face in their interactions with peers, students and the community at their destination cultures. It argues that global scholars can become powerful agents of societal change due to their background and unique position in overseas academic communities. A number of values and attributes empowering them to assume an effective moral leadership role are presented. These include espousing the principle of world citizenship to embrace unity in diversity; acquiring a humble posture of learning to develop intercultural competencies; and becoming involved in social action to achieve universal education. The issue of personally re-examining cultural assumptions of knowledge and teaching and learning is illustrated with examples throughout the chapter.
On American and Chinese Higher Education
The main differences between American and Chinese higher education are displayed in administrative system, teaching methods, curriculum, assessment and moral education. However, the two countries also have enlightened each other for the past periods in educational idea and other aspects of higher education. The two countries both have advantages and shortcomings, so they open to each other and take into some advanced ideas and measures that will make great contributions to the rapid development of higher education.
International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy’s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show that international integration of the market for skilled labor aggravates between-country income inequality by harming those which are source economies to begin with while benefiting host economies. When brain drain increases in source economies, public infrastructure investment is optimally adjusted downward, whereas host economies increase it. Evidence from 77 countries well supports our theoretical hypotheses.