Enhancing quality and productivity in Illinois higher education : faculty roles and responsibilities /

Agenda item #5a from September 8, 1993, board meeting minutes.

Fiscal year higher education budget recommendations:

Mode of access: Internet.

Fiscal year higher education budget recommendations: capital improvements.

Mode of access: Internet.

Higher education budget recommendations : operations, grants and capital improvements /

Fiscal year 2006.

Master plan for Illinois higher education 1991 /

"September 1991."

Minority participation in Illinois higher education /

"July 10, 1984."

Report of the Committee on the Study of Undergraduate Education.

"September 1986." --Cover.

Report on female student participation in Illinois higher education /

Description based on: 1990.

Report to the Governor and General Assembly on underrepresented groups in Illinois higher education /

Some vols. have title: Report to the Governor and General Assembly on underrepresented groups in public institutions of higher education in Illinois.

Report to the Governor and General Assembly on underrepresented groups in Illinois higher education /

Tables.

Staff recommendations for a master plan for higher education in Illinois /

Cover title.

Statistical report on female and minority employment in higher education : fall 1987 and trend data for 1979-1987 /

Caption title.

The Long and Winding Road: Heterogeneity in the Form and Timing of Postsecondary Education

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Ambivalent 'selves': Japanese women's diasporic experiences in Australian higher education

In an age of globalisation and internationalisation, how women learn to represent themselves in terms of their cultural, social and gender identities in the wider world is significant. A group of 17 Japanese women studying in postgraduate courses in three Australian universities were interviewed for part of this longitudinal project, and their case studies are presented in this paper to portray the women's lived experiences and interpret how higher education overseas affects their reconstruction of their 'selves' and traditional Japanese femininity. I set my analytic framework through a discussion of the forceful globalisation of higher education and discourses of identity and 'self', and then analyse the present status of Japanese women in contemporary Japan. I then provide excerpts of the women's narratives which indicate ambivalent 'selves' in transition. Two possibilities have arisen from their narratives to illuminate this ambivalence - one possibility is that women's positive experiences in Australia and their increased and diverse exposure to and experience of other cultures may influence cultural change such as the transformation of constructs of women at home, and challenge existing identity and femininity discourses in Japan. The second possibility is that negative aspects of their 'diasporic experiences' can also articulate other complex identity politics, such as Japanese women's 'double marginalisation' which means being both a woman and a member of an ethnic minority group, conflicts between the homogenisation of 'Asian women' and representations of 'new Japanese women', and their sense of belongingness to their original culture. These contradictory phenomena of identity formations within Japanese women have the potential to shift the debate and challenge current essentialist views of hegemonic homogenisation of regional identities.

Gender and subject in higher education

This thesis is concerned with the issue of gender inequality in higher education. It examines the relationship between gender and subject specialisation, looking in particular at the reasons for the predominance, at undergraduate level, of men in the physical sciences, and of women in the humanities. It investigates ideas of `masculinity' and `femininity' and how these relate to constructions of `science' and `arts'. The thesis argues that students choose which subject to study on the basis of certain qualities these subjects are seen to hold, and that these qualities have close connections with beliefs about `masculinity' and `femininity'. It examines this through an interview study of male and female students on six higher education courses: two university courses of physics, two university courses of English, a polytechnic course in communications and a polytechnic course in physical science. The interview study demonstrates that the science subjects are perceived by science students as more certain, more useful and more important than the humanities, and emphasise the value of their degree in gaining a well-paid and important job. Female science students, however, experience conflict between being `a good scientist' and being `feminine'. English and communications students emphasise the breadth, uncertainty and individuality of their subjects, and find science restrictive and narrow. They make little link between their degree and their future career. Men, however, feel no conflict between their identity as men and their chosen subject. It is argued that there is a close link between the construction of masculinity and the construction of physical science, but that English and communications are more ambivalent: in some senses `masculine', in some `feminine'. Men are advantaged in these subjects because of their greater visibility and assertiveness. The thesis concludes that the division between `science' and `arts' reinforces ideas of masculinity and femininity, and argues that female `failure' in education is in part the result of higher education's inability to transcend that division.