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Ting Du
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2021.04.002
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Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
As the most vivacious agents of internationalization, international students and their expanded enrollment have inevitably impacted the institutional diversity of higher education system, among which programmatic diversity bears the utmost prominence. As a critical structure of internationalization, programs reflect and reflect on institutional change of higher education institutions. When it comes to analyzing internationalization in higher education, systematic studies have been completed from the prospective of the institution itself, market and government. In terms of analyzing the contributors of institutional diversity, the bulk of studies target organizational theory as the efficient explanatory framework for diversity of higher education institutions. By combining internationalization analytical framework and organizational theory, the former perspective helps to explain programmatic diversification in institution’s opinion and the latter one can work for government and market. Based on these two theories, five hypotheses are proposed as signals to lead the whole thesis. In order to figure out (a) what factors contribute to the diversification process of programs; (b) what effects have been caused by the expansion enrollment of international students to programmatic diversity in Canada, this paper opts for a most-likely case study—the University of Toronto (U of T). As an empirical study, this paper has testified five hypotheses and concludes that (a) international students have significant correlation with programmatic diversification; (b) but, the effect of its expansion enrollment is mainly economic; (c) administrative directives and other factors like academic norms still dominate some faculties.
KEYWORDS
internationalization, programmatic diversity, higher education, organizational theory, case study
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