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Jenny J. Lee is a professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education and College of Education Dean's Fellow for Internationalization at the University of Arizona. She is also the Vice President-Elect for Division J: Postsecondary Education for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and is co-editor of the book series, Studies in Global Higher Education. She formerly served as a NAFSA Senior Fellow, US Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, the Chair for the Council of International Higher Education and Board of Directors for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). She has participated as a distinguished Global Professor at Korea University and as an international visiting scholar at City University of London, the University of Pretoria, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Professor Lee's research examines how migration policies, geopolitics, and social forces shape inequities in higher education, in the US and abroad. Professor Lee has investigated university internationalization and partnerships, student and scholar mobility, and scientific collaboration, to name some. Based on her comparative research in the US, Southern Africa, and East Asia, she has introduced widely cited critical frameworks, such as neo-racism and neo-nationalism, to the field. In addition, Dr. Lee’s expertise is regularly sought by national and international news outlets. NPR, Nature, Science, the New York Times, ABC News, Al Jazeera, and the Chronicle of Higher Education are among the prominent news networks that have quoted Professor Lee and featured her research. Her latest research focuses on the geopolitics of global science, which is covered in her award-winning edited book, “U.S. Power in International Higher Education,” published by Rutgers University Press in 2021. Currently, she is undergoing two major studies, one funded by NSF (with PhD student John Haupt) and another in partnership with the Committee of 100 (with PhD student Xiaojie Li), on how international research collaboration can overcome current US-China tensions and the racial profiling of Chinese scientists and students in the US.

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Courses
  • VCPP
    Values, Consciousness and Professional Practice

  • RDHE
    Research Design in Higher Education

  • CAS
    College Access and Success

  • HEAW
    Higher Education Across the World

  • VME
    Values and Mindfulness in Education

  • FL
    Foundations of Leadership

  • ICHE
    Introduction to Comparative Higher Education

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    RAPID International Type I: Understanding the Nature of US-China Research Collaborations on COVID-19

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $200.0K
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News
  • UA Launching Upward Bound Program With DOE Grant

    2017

  • Project SOAR to See New Collaborations in the Fall

    2016

  • UA Alumna Receives White House Honor

    2015

  • Festival Emphasizes Literacy, Love of Learning

    2013

  • Tucson Festival of Books Seeks UA Authors

    2011

  • Lecture Series to Focus on Higher Education and the Economy

    2010

  • UA College of Education’s Project SOAR Takes Off

    2007

Publications (109)
Recent
  • Faculty International Engagement: Examining Rationales, Strategies, and Barriers in Institutional Settings

    2022

  • US–China Geopolitical Tensions: Implications for Universities and Science

    2022

  • World view

    2022

  • Intra-Africa student mobility in higher education: Strengths, prospects and challenges

    2021

  • Understanding the attraction of the microcampus: A quantitative investigation of students’ motivations to enroll in transnational education

    2021

  • International higher education as geopolitical power

    2021

  • Scientific globalism during a global crisis: research collaboration and open access publications on COVID-19

    2021

  • US Power in International Higher Education

    2021

  • Research on internationalisation and globalisation in higher education—Reflections on historical paths, current perspectives and future possibilities

    2021

  • Neo-racism and the criminalization of China

    2020

  • Scientific Globalism During A Global Crisis:Research Collaboration and Open Access Publications on COVID-19

    2020

  • Scientific Collaboration on COVID-19 Amidst Geopolitical Tensions between the US and China

    2020

  • The future of international HE in a post-mobility world

    2020

  • International Research Collaborations on COVID-19 Amidst Geopolitical Tensions with China

    2020

  • Winners and losers in US-China scientific research collaborations

    2020

  • Global rankings at a local cost? The strategic pursuit of status and the third mission

    2020

  • Shifting positionalities across international locations: Embodied knowledge, time‐geography, and the polyvalence of privilege

    2020

  • International Students Seeking Political Stability and Safety in South Africa

    2020

  • Marketing to international students: Presentation of university self in geopolitical space

    2019

  • Knowledge production for All

    2019

  • Beyond Trumpism: the underlying US political climate for international students and scholars

    2019

  • University Student Aff airs Staff and Their Spiritual Discussions with Students

    2019

  • Stratified University Strategies: The Shaping of Institutional Legitimacy in a Global Perspective

    2019

  • Examining rankings and strategic planning: Variations in local commitments

    2018

  • International graduate student labor as mergers and acquisitions

    2018

  • Academic Mobility, Inequities in Opportunity and Experience

    2018

  • When internationalization funding feels tight: Satisfaction with funding and campus internationalization strategies

    2018

  • Neo-nationalism in higher education: Case of South Africa

    2017

  • Neo-Racism and Neo-Nationalism Within East Asia: The Experiences of International Students in South Korea

    2017

  • Exploring mentors’ perceptions of mentees and the mentoring relationship in a multicultural service-learning context

    2017

  • Global: Neo-nationalism: Challenges for international students

    2017

  • Sliding doors: strategic ambiguity in study visas to South Africa

    2017

  • Neo-nationalism: Challenges for international students

    2016

  • Exploring Social Network Ties of US Academics: The Importance of Employee Status, Institutional Type, Discipline, and Geography

    2016

  • Exploring social network ties of U.S. academics: The importance of employee status, institutional type, discipline, and geography

    2016

  • The CINHEKS comparative survey: Emerging design, findings, and the art of mending fractured vessels

    2016

  • Internationalization as mergers and acquisitions: Senior international officers’ entrepreneurial strategies and activities in public universities

    2015

  • The false halo of internationalization

    2015

  • Regional, continental, and global mobility to an emerging economy: the case of South Africa

    2015

  • Engaging International Students Jenny J. Lee

    2014

  • Engaging International Students

    2014

  • University Service: Conceptions and Enactments of University Service in the Knowledge Economy: Case Studies from STEM Faculty in the USA

    2014

  • Conceptions and enactments of university service in the new knowledge economy: Case studies from STEM faculty in the US

    2014

  • The emergence of a regional hub: Comparing international student choices and experiences in South Korea

    2014

  • Student affairs capitalism and early-career student affairs professionals

    2013

  • Career goals, pathways and competencies of geography graduate students in the USA

    2013

  • La falsa aura de la internacionalización

    2013

  • What is the greater good? The discourse on public and private roles of higher education in the new economy

    2013

  • The global sorting machine: An examination of neoracism among international students and postdoctoral researchers

    2012

  • International student security

    2012

  • Aging: Is your patient taking too many pills?

    2012

  • S. Marginson, C. Nyland, E. Sawir, and H. Forbes-Mewett: International student security: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010

    2012

  • Teaching mindfulness at a public research university

    2012

  • A Critical Agency Network Model for Building an Integrated Outreach Program

    2012

  • Cost-utility analysis of biologic treatments for moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease

    2012

  • Coming to America: Challenges and difficulties faced by African student athletes

    2011

  • Student affairs staff and their spiritual discussions with students

    2011

  • 'Departmental climate and student experiences in geography graduate programs': Research for enhancing departments and graduate education

    2011

  • ‘Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Geography Graduate Programs’: Research for Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education

    2011

  • Understanding resistance: Reflections on race and privilege through service-learning

    2011

  • University student affairs staff and their spiritual discussions with students

    2010

  • International students’ experiences and attitudes at a US host institution: Self-reports and future recommendations

    2010

  • Faculty Diversity: Current Trends, Issues, and Practices

    2010

  • Redefining nontraditional students: Exploring the self-perceptions of community college students

    2010

  • Critical community service

    2010

  • Unseen Workers in the Academic Factory: Perceptions of Neoracism Among International Postdocs in the United States and the United Kingdom

    2010

  • Critical community service: Beyond individual gains and towards social change

    2010

  • Brain gain or brain circulation? U.S. doctoral recipients returning to South Korea

    2010

  • Jussi Valimaa, Oili-Helena Ylijoki (Eds): Cultural perspectives on higher education

    2009

  • Departmental climate and student experiences in graduate geography programs

    2009

  • Cultural perspectives on higher education

    2009

  • Exploring the orientations of international students in Mexico: Differences by region of origin

    2009

  • The Shaping of the Departmental Culture: Measuring the Relative Influences of the Institution and Discipline1

    2009

  • Beyond borders: International student pathways to the United States

    2008

  • The reliability of rating conversation as a measure of functional communication following stroke

    2008

  • Using web surveys to reach community college students: An analysis of response rates and response bias

    2008

  • Neo-Racism toward International Students: A critical need for change

    2007

  • Bottom line—Neo‐racism toward international students

    2007

  • Welcome to America? International student perceptions of discrimination

    2007

  • Welcome to America? Perceptions of neo-racism and discrimination among international students

    2007

  • " Strangers" of the Academy: Asian Women Scholars in Higher Education

    2007

  • Moving Toward a Global Community

    2007

  • The shaping of the departmental culture: Measuring the relative influences of the institution and discipline

    2007

  • Moving toward a global community: An analysis of the internationalization of student affairs graduate preparation programs

    2007

  • International student experiences: Neo-racism and discrimination

    2006

  • Preparing Student Affairs Practitioners for the Global Community

    2006

  • Global citizenship: Extending students' knowledge and action to the global context

    2006

  • Refinancing the College Dream: Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers

    2006

  • The political economy of international student flows: Patterns, ideas, and propositions

    2006

  • Home away from home or foreign territory?: How social class mediates service-learning experiences

    2005

  • Professors as knowledge workers in the new, global economy

    2005

  • Exploring spirituality and culture in adult and higher education

    2005

  • Comparing institutional relationships with academic departments: A study of five academic fields

    2004

  • Understanding students’ religious and spiritual pursuits: A case study at New York University

    2004

  • Faculty entrepreneurialism and the challenge to undergraduate education at research universities

    2004

  • Understanding students' parental education beyond first-generation status

    2004

  • Tangles in the tapestry - Cultural barriers to graduate student unionization

    2004

  • Understanding differences among community college students across varying levels of parental education

    2004

  • How risky are one-shot cross-sectional assessments of undergraduate students?

    2003

  • University reference group identification among community college faculty

    2002

  • A social outcast: The social construction and deconstruction of religion in the curriculum

    2002

  • Helping students adapt to graduate school: Making the grade

    2002

  • Changing worlds, changing selves: The experience of the religious self among catholic collegians

    2002

  • Religion and College Attendance: Change among Students

    2002

  • The conscience of the campus: Case studies in moral reasoning among today's college students

    2002

  • Panethnicity and collective action among Asian American students: A qualitative case study

    2002

  • Changing worlds, changing selves: The experience of the religious self among Catholic collegians.

    2001

  • Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemintism; Sexism, Heterosexism, Albleism, and Classism

    2001

  • Changing Religious Beliefs among College Students.

    2000

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