Alexandra Bristow is a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research focuses on the changing nature of academic work, identity and knowledge within the increasingly managerialist and neoliberalist global Higher Education context. Prior to taking up her position at Surrey, she had been a PhD researcher at the Lancaster University Management School, UK. Her doctoral thesis, which investigated the work of academic journal editors, is a co-winner of the Academy of Management Best Dissertation Award (2011), in the Critical Management Studies Division.
Jason Chih-Yu Chan currently serves as Professor in the College of Education and as the Dean of Academic Affairs, National Chengchi University (NCCU). He ever served as the Dean of the College of Education (2008–2012), Dean of the Center for Creativity and Innovation Studies (2006–2008), Director of the Department of Education (2004–2006), and Principal of the Experimental Elementary School Affiliated to NCCU. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1991). His research areas of interest include creativity study, educational psychology, methodology and philosophy of science. He has published a total of more than 100 items of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and technical reports, mostly in mandarin.
(Kent) Sheng Yao Cheng is Professor in the Graduate Institute of Curriculum Studies and Center for Teacher Education at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. Dr Cheng also serves as the Director of Institute for Disadvantaged Students’
Learning at CCU, the Board Member of Chinese Comparative Education Society- Taipei, Program Chair of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) SIG: Higher Education (2009–2013), International Advisor of the National Center for University Entrance Examinations (Japan), Co-Director of Global Education, Training, and Leadership Institute, Affiliated Faculty in the Institute of International Studies in Education at University of Pittsburgh, Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2011–2102), and the Executive Editor of Journal of Comparative Education. Dr.
Cheng received his Ph. D. in the Division of Social Science and Comparative Education at UCLA in 2004 and the topic of his dissertation focused on the Politics of Identity and Indigenous Schooling between Taiwan Aborigines and American Indians. Dr. Cheng’s recent research interests are Higher Education, Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, International Educational Reforms, and Remedial Teaching Programs.
Gregory S. Ching is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Educational Leadership and Development at the Fu Jen Catholic University of Taiwan.
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to international students in Taiwan. His research interest includes globalization and higher education, international student mobility, student engagement, human behavior in organizations, and bibliometrics.
Chou, Chuing Prudence is Professor in the Department of Education at National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan. She has been a Fulbright Scholar (2006–07, and 2012–13) visiting Harvard University and University of Miami. As a part-time professor at Akita International University (AIU) and Tohoku University, Japan, Chou demonstrated her specialty in applying a new framework as “cross-straitization” in dealing with conflicts and peace among rivalry countries. Her research interests include educational exchanges between China and Taiwan, study abroad programs from comparative perspective, and education reforms and citizenship education under the influence of neo-liberalism, globalization and localization. Her book entitled “Taiwan Education at the Crossroad” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) details Taiwan’s most recent education reform policy in the era of globalization.
W. James Jacob is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include higher education management; HIV/AIDS multisectoral prevention, capacity building, and principles of good governance; indigenous education issues of culture, language, and identity as they relate to post-secondary education. He is the co-editor of two book series: International and Development Education (Palgrave Macmillan) and Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education (Sense Publishers). His most recent books include Indigenous Education: Language, Culture, and Identity (with Sheng Yao Cheng and Maureen Porter, Springer, 2013), Policy Debates in Comparative, International, and Development Education (with John Hawkins, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Chia Nian Lee currently serves as Head of Student Affairs Department in Phor Tay High School, Penang, Malaysia. He graduated from University Of Technology Malaysia as Bachelor of Chemical Engineering. However, he was determined to become a science school teacher and served as form teacher, and Head of Academic Department in Keat Hwa High School, Kedah, Malaysia. Lee later moved to Taiwan and graduated from Graduate Institute of Education at National Chengchi University. His research interest includes alternative education and humanistic education in Malaysia and Taiwan.
June Yichun Liu, graduated from the Department of English, Purdue University, U.S.A., is currently Associate Professor of Foreign Language Center at National Chengchi University. She specializes in L2 writing; she is especially interested in Writing for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Rhetoric, World Englishes, Discourse Analysis, cognitive writing process and CMC. She has papers published in various international journals including Journal of Second Language Writing, International Journal of English Studies, and College Composition and Communication. Her recent research focuses are service learning, Facebook application, writing for scholarly publication, teacher’s belief, teacher’s community.
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153 Ka Ho Mok is Chair Professor of Comparative Policy and concurrently Associate Vice President and Director, Centre for Greater China Studies of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). As an internationally recognized scholar, Mok sits on numerous editorial boards, and in key scholarly societies. Mok also worked creatively across the academic worlds of sociology, political science and public and social policy while also developing expertise on China and the greater China region.
He has published extensively in the fields of comparative education policy, and social development in contemporary China and East Asia. Mok is a founding editor of Journal of Asian Public Policy and Asian Education and Development Studies, as well as Comparative Development and Policy in Asia Book Series.
Shao-Wen Su received her Ph.D. degree in Education from The University of Newcastle in Australia, a master’s degree in English Literature and Language, and a BA in Foreign Literatures and Languages. She teaches in Department of Applied English at National Chin-Yi University of Technology in Taiwan, holding an associate professor position. She has been teaching EFL in colleges and universities for over the last twenty years. Her research interests include areas of EFL writing, English literature and ESP instructions as well as curriculum design and evaluation.
Currently, she has embarked on exploring issues of research capacity of teaching faculty in fields of humanities and social sciences. Her further study is to focus on the correlation between teaching efficiency and academic performance.
Huei-Huang Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in public administration, Syracuse University. Wang’s research interests include: the role of insecurity in the formation and sustenance of social institutions, including governing coalitions and public and private bureaucracies; science and technology policy and their impacts on the following areas: competitive advantage of nations, the governance structure of businesses, public organizations, NPOs, academia, and local governance; theory of bureaucratic organizations, bureaucratic politics and developmental state.
Li-ying Wu is Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of English at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She received her doctorate (2007) from Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, narrative inquiry, new literacy studies as well as critical issues in higher education.
Shen-Keng Yang is Chair Professor in the Department of Education at National Taiwan Normal University. Dr Yang also served as the Vice President, Chair Professor, Dean of School of Education at National Chung Cheng University (2003–2008), Vice President of Comparative Education Society of Asia (2001–2005), the President and Board Member of Chinese Comparative Education Society-Taipei, and Director of Graduate Institute of Comparative Education at National Chi-Nan University in Taiwan (1996–1998). Dr. Yang received his Ph. D. in Athens University, Greece in 1972 and his current research interests focus on Higher Education, Comparative Education, Teacher Education, and Philosophy of Education.
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Autobiography
Dr. Shao-Wen Su received her Ph.D. degree in Education from The University of Newcastle in Australia, a master’s degree in English Literature and Language, and a BA in Foreign Literatures and Languages.
She teaches in Department of Applied English at National Chin-Yi University of Technology in Taiwan, holding an associate professor position. She has been teaching EFL in colleges and universities for over 20 years.
Her research interests include areas of EFL writing, English literature and ESP instructions as well as curriculum design and evaluation. Currently, she has embarked on exploring issues of research capacity of teaching faculty in fields of humanities and social sciences. Her further study is to focus on the correlation between teaching efficiency and academic performance.
key words: academic colonization, academic performance, academic research, empirical study, higher education evaluation, Humanities and Social Sciences, “I”
idolization, interviews, “I”-oriented evaluation, SCI, SSCI, teacher evaluation
‘Dr. Huei-Huang Wang earned his Ph.d degree in public administration from Syracuse University. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Political Science at the Soochow University, Taiwan. He teaches public administration theories, metropolitan governance, and industrial development. His research interests cover comparative bureaucratic politics, comparative industrial policy and organizations, and comparative metropolitan governance.’
Key words: sci and ssci, peer-based and bibliometric methods, basic research, applied research, imitation, academic networks or communities
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INDEX
Academe, vii, viii, x, xi, xiii, xvii, 81–86, 89–91, 94
academic autonomy, x, xi, 12, 21 academic colony, xiii, 43, 66, 67, 74,
75, 154
academic fi elds, xiii, 26, 84–86, 89–91, 93, 97–99, 106, 134
academic freedom, xiii, xix, 20, 28, 76 academic networks, 32–34, 154 academic performance, xii, xvii, xix,
25–27, 32, 51, 56, 75, 128, 129, 131, 133, 153, 154
academic profession, xii, xiv, 17, 19, 20, 131, 146
academic publication, vii, 26, 55, 57, 58, 81, 82, 86, 111, 113, 120, 122, 128
academic research, xii, xiv, 5, 25–29, 36, 54–56, 58, 61, 63, 66, 67, 71, 73–76, 77, 129, 143, 145, 146, 154
academic reward, xiii, 57, 58, 72, 76 applied research, 154
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), viii, 54, 55, 59, 61, citation index, viii, xiii, 43, 52, 58, 77,
81, 82, 85–88, 91–93, 97–106, 109, 141, 146, 148
commodifi cation, 129, 155
commercialization, 129, 155
competition, vii, x–xii, xix, 6, 14, 19, 25, 26, 42, 45, 46, 49, 57, 76, 106, 124, 143–145
democratization, xii, 3, 33, 36
empirical study, 13, 59, 81, 82, 93, 154 Engineering Index (EI), xiv, 18, 26–30,
35, 43, 88, 141, 143 English hegemony, xi, 113
evaluation criteria, xi, xv, xix, 28, 146, 147 Executive Yuan Education Reform
Commission, ix, 3, 35
Faculty, vii, x–xiii, xviii, 17, 19, 25, 27, 32, 42, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 56, 58,
google scholar, 12, 82, 87, 88, 93, 94, 148 HEEACT, 15, 127, 129, 131, 137,
139, 155
higher education evaluation, 15, 18, 51, 76, 77, 127, 154
humanities and social sciences, viii, x, xiii, xix, 6, 7, 27–30, 51, 61, 62, 85, 153, 154
imitation, 34, 46, 113, 154
impact factor (IF), xiii, 53, 55, 63, 87, 91–93, 98, 100–106, 122, 129, 135, 138, 142
indexization, x, xvii
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institutional autonomy, xii, xix, 4, 8, 12, 13
international journals, x, xi, xiii, xix, 52, 54, 58, 61–67, 72, 74, 77, 97–99, 103–106, 109, 111, 114, 115, 123, 124, 129, 152
internationalization, ix, 17, 19, 20, 51, 61, 90, 109, 122, 128
“I” idolization interviews, 154
“I”–oriented evaluation, 59, 154 3–I syndrome, xiv, 127–130, 155 journal citation database, xiv, 146 journal citation index, 43, 52, 58, 81,
85, 88, 91, 92, 93, 100, 103, 105, 106, 109, 129, 138, 139, 141, 142, 146
journal publication, xiii, 58, 74, 97, 99, 106
justice, xiii, 67, 76, 141, 143 localization, ix, xi, 97, 152 L2 writing, 110, 121, 152
McDonaldization of academia, 130, 155 market economy, vii, xi
neo-liberalism, 2, 3, 19, 20, 152 new higher education, ix, 127, 128, 155 New Higher Education (NHE), xiv,
127–131, 133, 136–138, 139, 155 on–line petition, xi, xiv
open access, xiii, 81, 82, 88, 90, 94 peer–based review, vii, 31, 33, 35 perishing Confucius, xiv, 127–138, 139 protest, xi, xix, 128, 130–134, 137,
138, 155 public funding, vii, viii public intellectual, xix, 142 publish or perish, viii, xiv, 74, 81,
127–130, 133, 134, 136–138, 155
quality assurance, 15, 20
quantitative management, 39, 40, 42, 48 ranking, vii, viii, x, xii–xiv, xvii, xix,
1, 3, 6, 8, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 29, 42–46, 49, 53–55, 58, 73, 77, 81, 82, 87, 90, 101, 106, 129, 133, 141, 143, 144, 148
rank promotions, viii, xii
resistance, xiv, 127, 128, 130, 132–134, 137, 138, 139, 155
resource allocation, 46, 109 reward control, 47, 48, 49
Science and non–Science, 82–86, 93 Science Citation Index (SCI), viii, xiii,
xiv, 18, 26, 27–31, 33, 35, 43, 52, 54–59, 67–70, 75, 76, 77, 81, 85, 86, 88, 91–93, 97–103, 106, 109, 128, 141, 143–146, 154 short–term programs, xii, 39, 48 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI),
viii, xiii, 43, 52, 77, 81, 85, 88, 97, 100, 109
social action, xi stratifi cation, x, xiii Taiwanese
Thomson Reuters Institute for Scientifi c Information (ISI), viii, xiii, 58, 77, 81–87, 89–94, 97, 98, 106 university governance, vii, viii, xi, xii,
1–6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19–21 university expansion, 6
University Law, ix, 5, 6, 54, 67, 133 world class university, 6, 52, 54
world class university ranking, x, xix, 144 writing for academic purposes, 152 writing for scholarly publication, 110,
113, 152
zero–sum game, 136, 155