This paper focuses on aspirations to study abroad, using the case of Vietnamese international students (VISs) in Japan. A qualitative research study based on 23 in-depth interviews applied the 'aspirations-capabilities' framework (de Haas, 2021) and revealed that while economic factors play a significant role in motivating Vietnamese students to…

President Trump and his administration aim to change U.S. visa and immigration policy for international students in the next several months. These changes could significantly affect the physical sciences community. This brief report utilizes data from AIP's core surveys of physics and astronomy departments, students, and recent degree recipients…

Intrinsic inequity in assessment refers to sources of harmful discrimination inherent in the design of assessment tools and systems. This study seeks to understand intrinsic inequity in assessment systems by studying assessment policies and associated procedures in residency training, using general pediatrics as a discourse case study. Foucauldian…

This paper investigates the effects of migration and work experience on university-to-work transitions of German university graduates. We use a job search model, signaling and social network theory to discuss different links between the duration of labor market entry, graduate mobility and work experience. We apply event history analyses and make…

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted the education landscape between recent college and university graduates and pathways to graduate degrees. In my perspective article, I wish to share the challenges, reflections, and a call-to-action framework in ways we can support and advocate for postbaccalaureate persons excluded because…

Student experiences of closeness in teacher-student relationships can be of profound influence. Better understanding the personal and emotional contexts of such a phenomenon are of critical importance, especially in online and blended learning environments where students and teachers are physically or geographically separated. Such physical…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to establish a moderated mediation model to examine the paradoxical effect of new college graduates' employability on their career decision-making difficulties, with the mediating role of perceived overqualification. We also examined the moderating role of perceived COVID-19 crisis strength to strengthen this…

This study explores the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in graduate education within the context of the discourse on human capital. It draws on the phenomenology design, one of the designs in qualitative research. To choose the participants, the purposeful sampling technique was applied. Foundation universities and research public…

Globally, countries often view PhD training as building research capacity and may encourage international mobility of potential PhDs as they expect them to return home -- not considering individuals as agents negotiating their own intentions. We examined the interaction between such structural factors and 36 PhD graduates' efforts (from 13 African…

An autoethnographic exploration of critical ecofeminist theory and pedagogy, by four students and their professor, provides strategies for creative teaching, learning, writing, and publishing.

Determining best practices for graduate enrollment requires continuous dedication by graduate enrollment personnel to identify innovative and relevant recruitment strategies to attract potential graduate applicants. The dynamic landscape of higher education creates further complexity as these best practices must also align with institutional…

Master-level postgraduate professional development (PPD) programs have grown rapidly in many parts of the world. Being able to complete written assignments successfully is a significant concern for students pursuing PPD studies. Yet the nature of written assignments in such programs has been under-researched. This paper reports a study conducted…

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is the method of choice for thermodynamic binding profiling. As a label-free in-solution technique, ITC experiments do not require modified or immobilized proteins or ligands and hence can be performed under close-to-native environmental conditions. It directly follows the released heat of the molecular…

Many educational researchers discuss policy implications of their work and aspire to have an impact on policy. However, shaping policy requires academics to step away from the "comfort zone" of critique in the academy and into the world of politics, where they must act in unfamiliar ways and understand their role and positioning as…

In 2017, the University of Utah experienced a tragedy that accelerated already proposed changes to the physics and astronomy graduate program. This article outlines the changes made to the graduate program and discusses students' experiences with the early implementation of the new policies. In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted with…