Maria Yudkevich is Associate Professor of Economics and Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia.

Philip G. Altbach is Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, USA.

Laura E. Rumbley is Associate Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, USA.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1

International Faculty in 21st Century Universities: Themes and Variations

Philip G. Altbach and Maria Yudkevich

Chapter 2

The Long-Term Mobility of International Faculty: A Literature Review

Georgiana Mihut, Ariane de Gayardon, and Yulia Rudt

Chapter 3

International Faculty in a Brazilian University: International Trajectories in a Nationalized System of Scientific Production

Ana Maria F. Almeida, Mauricio Érnica, Luciano Antonio Digiampietri, and Marcelo Knobel

Chapter 4

International Faculty in Canada: Recruitment and Transition Processes

Diane V. Barbari¿ and Glen A. Jones

Chapter 5

International Faculty in Two Top Tier Chinese Universities:

One Country, Two Types of Internationals

Gerard A. Postiglione and Xie Ailei

Chapter 6

Integrating International Academic Staff into the Local Academic Context in Lithuania and Estonia

Anna-Lena Rose and Liudvika Leišyt¿

Chapter 7

Recruitment and Integration of International Faculty at German Universities: The Case of the University of Konstanz

Martin Bruder and C. Giovanni Galizia

Chapter 8

International Faculty Recruitment in Kazakhstan: The Case of Nazarbayev University

Alan Ruby, Aliya Kuzhabekova, and Jack T. Lee

Chapter 9

Attraction, Integration, and Productivity of International Academics in Mexico

Sylvie Didou Aupetit

Chapter 10

International Academic Recruitment in a Turbulent Environment: The Case of the Higher School of Economics in Russia

Valentina Kuskova and Maria Yudkevich

Chapter 11

International Faculty in Saudi Arabia's Universities

Mohammad A. AlOhali

Chapter 12

International Academics in Africa: The South African Experience

Damtew Teferra

Chapter 13

International Faculty in Higher Education: Common Motivations, Disparate Realities, and Many Unknowns

Laura E. Rumbley and Hans de Wit

About the Contributors

In an interconnected and globally competitive environment, faculty mobility across countries has become widespread, yet is little understood. Grounded in qualitative methodology, this volume offers a cutting-edge examination of internationally mobile academics today and explores the approaches and strategies that institutions pursue to recruit and integrate international teachers and scholars into local universities. Providing a range of research-based insights from case studies in key countries, this resource offers higher education scholars and administrators a comparative perspective, helping to explain the impact that international faculty have on the local university, as well as issues of retention, promotion, salaries, and the challenges faced by these internationally mobile academics.