Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Within the complex global contexts of educational internationalization, governments, non-profit organizations and higher education both collaborate and compete for control of international educational exchange programs. This paper expands upon Knight’s framework “Internationalization at Home and Abroad” to examine the role of an American university in implementation of an outreach program originating in Japan. The Japan Outreach Initiative at the University of Kentucky, externally funded by the Japan Foundation for Global Partnerships, will serve as case study to examine a program that serves as ‘internationalization abroad’ from the Japanese perspective and ‘internationalization at home’ for the Kentucky campus. The focus will be on issues that arise as the university interprets and implements the initiative in negotiation with its Japanese partner, with the campus’ own strategic framework for internationalization and with the external Kentucky constituencies it engages. Finally, the paper will consider how this case study further informs the three models of campus internatonalization posited by Chan and Dimmock -- internationalist, translocalist and globalist, which differently balance international, national and institutional contexts.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Every year, hundreds of American college students are the victims of bias-motivated verbal and physical assaults. Hate crimes occur on large and small, urban and rural college campuses. However, little research explores whether there is a systematic pattern to the hate crimes that occur on college campuses. In this paper, we study why some college campuses experience ethnic/racial hate crimes while others do not. We explore the possibility that college campuses may sometimes be defended neighborhoods – that when the composition of the student population on a campus changes, some majority group members react violently to protect the status quo. Through a statistical analysis of the hate crimes reported to the FBI by 351 colleges, we find that ethnic/racial hate crimes are more likely to occur on predominantly Anglo college campuses that have experienced a large increase in their minority student population. We also find that ethnic/racial hate crimes are more likely in states that have seen a large increase in their minority population, suggesting that students react to changes within both their immediate and broader social environments. These findings suggest that scholars must look beyond the neighborhood to fully understand how demographic change influences ethnic conflict. This research represents one of the first empirical studies of college campus hate crimes, as well as a rare quantitative examination of how social context influences the incidence of hate crimes.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Despite recent tragic events on college campuses, the federal student privacy law continues to impede information-sharing critical to campus safety. FERPA was amended in 1992 to allow access to campus law enforcement records following the Student Press Law Center v. Alexander decision. This paper reviews court cases and legislative action to address how FERPA has been applied in questions involving access to campus security since that amendment.

Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: Extra-curricular campus activities mirror the effects of associational life on political participation (Kuh, 1995; Pascarella, Ethington & Smart 1988; Verba, Schlozman & Brady, 1995). As encouraging student participation in such activities can be difficult (Kuh, Schuh, Whitt, Andreas, Lyons, Strange, Krehbiel, & MacKay, 1991), this project describes an effort to promote peer enhancement of campus life. Students in a persuasion course developed a campaign to increase participation on campus. Pre and post semester questionnaires, as well as focus groups, reveal that students anticipated participating in more campus and community activities, and their attitudes toward the purpose of college expanded broadened. Self efficacy regarding several political tasks also improved. Students in a control group experienced no similar changes, suggesting that classroom activities can address current college students’ political apathy

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the influence productions of the Vagina Monologues have on a campus community. At a time when “post”-feminism has been declared and young women and men are portrayed as rejecting feminist ideas, we examine how two college campuses react to the Vagina Monologues. On one campus, we find the Monologues serve as an awakening for individuals through the reclamation of language and sexuality and can foster a sense of feminist community. On the other campus the reaction to the Monologues are mixed with some students embracing them and others dismissing them as exclusionary and one-dimensional. We argue that these different reactions illustrate the complexity and vitality of contemporary feminism.