This article examined the effects of scholarships on academic persistence in distance learning en... more This article examined the effects of scholarships on academic persistence in distance learning environments. Student persistence is one of the most important measurements for both institutional management and student success amidst the changing educational landscape in higher education. It is a particularly important issue for open and distance universities where the student retention rates are much lower than in conventional face-to-face education. To this end, this study aimed to understand how the provision of scholarships may contribute to students' persistence, especially focusing on distance adult learners. Data was collected from a Korean public open university regarding students' academic and scholarship information who were enrolled in the first and second semesters in the year of 2019. Logistic regression models were applied to identify the relationship between scholarship types and students' persistence. The finding suggested that students who received need-ba...
This study attempts to compare the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on college stud... more This study attempts to compare the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on college students' lifestyles and mental health conditions in South Korea and Taiwan. As the COVID-19 outbreak has spread across the globe, it has brought significant changes to college campuses worldwide. College students have been heavily affected by the closure, as online learning has become increasingly common in higher education institutions. Using data collected from college students in South Korea and Taiwan in the spring of 2020, this study examines the effects of pandemic-related lifestyle changes on mental health conditions for college students in the two countries. The results were 3-fold. First, compared to college students in Taiwan, college students in South Korea reported greater decreases in time spent traveling, being with friends, eating at restaurants, and engaging in part-time employment, and greater increases in online shopping and ordering food for delivery. Second, college ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the organizational changes in higher education instit... more The purpose of this study is to investigate the organizational changes in higher education institutions across different regional contexts, with a special focus on the trends towards marketization in South Korea and Hong Kong. The study employs a qualitative case study approach to understand the organizational responses to the marketization from the selected research sites. Using data collected through semi-structured interviews with participants from each case, the study applies cross-case synthesis to evaluate similarities and differences related to organizational changes and management practices at universities in these two contexts in Asia. The findings underscore two principal themes: market influences and trends towards marketization, and organizational and management changes on campuses. The findings suggest that both South Korea and Hong Kong represent excellent cases through which to explore organizational responses to the marketization of higher education institutions and to highlight the reshaping of higher education in Asia.
This study examined the effects of governance in higher education on the changing structures of u... more This study examined the effects of governance in higher education on the changing structures of universities, focusing on three major aspects: the marketization of higher education, new circuits of academic capitalist knowledge, and the quality of higher education. To do so, the study employed time-series-cross-sectional (TSCS) data analysis with random effects models. The primary focus was to conduct empirical research utilizing comparative indicators and analytical tools for cross-national analysis, and to complement existing qualitative studies on the changing nature of universities. The results suggest the following: First, reductions in public subsidies for higher education may encourage higher education institutions to enter into market activities. Second, the results provide evidence that new circuits of knowledge, namely, academic capitalist knowledge regimes, are more highly associated with market activities such as university–industry collaboration and R&D performance comp...
This paper compares education policies and outcomes during the periods of modernization in Turkey... more This paper compares education policies and outcomes during the periods of modernization in Turkey and South Korea. Though the modernization era in these countries occurred at different periods of time-in Turkey from 1923 to 1938 and in South Korea from 1963 to 1979-both were implemented under the centralized authoritarian leadership. Controversial leaders, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey and Chung-hee Park in South Korea, each initiated that drastic reforms aimed at building a modern nation state, and new education policies acted as an important means for both to achieve their modernization objectives. However, despite a shared goal of modernizing society, the process and contents of education policy were strikingly different in Turkey and South Korea, and the outcomes also differed sharply. This paper argues that the religious context of Turkish society, and the conflict between secularism and Islam in particular, constitutes a major reason for slower progress in economic growth and development there compared to Korea.
This article examined the effects of scholarships on academic persistence in distance learning en... more This article examined the effects of scholarships on academic persistence in distance learning environments. Student persistence is one of the most important measurements for both institutional management and student success amidst the changing educational landscape in higher education. It is a particularly important issue for open and distance universities where the student retention rates are much lower than in conventional face-to-face education. To this end, this study aimed to understand how the provision of scholarships may contribute to students' persistence, especially focusing on distance adult learners. Data was collected from a Korean public open university regarding students' academic and scholarship information who were enrolled in the first and second semesters in the year of 2019. Logistic regression models were applied to identify the relationship between scholarship types and students' persistence. The finding suggested that students who received need-ba...
This study attempts to compare the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on college stud... more This study attempts to compare the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on college students' lifestyles and mental health conditions in South Korea and Taiwan. As the COVID-19 outbreak has spread across the globe, it has brought significant changes to college campuses worldwide. College students have been heavily affected by the closure, as online learning has become increasingly common in higher education institutions. Using data collected from college students in South Korea and Taiwan in the spring of 2020, this study examines the effects of pandemic-related lifestyle changes on mental health conditions for college students in the two countries. The results were 3-fold. First, compared to college students in Taiwan, college students in South Korea reported greater decreases in time spent traveling, being with friends, eating at restaurants, and engaging in part-time employment, and greater increases in online shopping and ordering food for delivery. Second, college ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the organizational changes in higher education instit... more The purpose of this study is to investigate the organizational changes in higher education institutions across different regional contexts, with a special focus on the trends towards marketization in South Korea and Hong Kong. The study employs a qualitative case study approach to understand the organizational responses to the marketization from the selected research sites. Using data collected through semi-structured interviews with participants from each case, the study applies cross-case synthesis to evaluate similarities and differences related to organizational changes and management practices at universities in these two contexts in Asia. The findings underscore two principal themes: market influences and trends towards marketization, and organizational and management changes on campuses. The findings suggest that both South Korea and Hong Kong represent excellent cases through which to explore organizational responses to the marketization of higher education institutions and to highlight the reshaping of higher education in Asia.
This study examined the effects of governance in higher education on the changing structures of u... more This study examined the effects of governance in higher education on the changing structures of universities, focusing on three major aspects: the marketization of higher education, new circuits of academic capitalist knowledge, and the quality of higher education. To do so, the study employed time-series-cross-sectional (TSCS) data analysis with random effects models. The primary focus was to conduct empirical research utilizing comparative indicators and analytical tools for cross-national analysis, and to complement existing qualitative studies on the changing nature of universities. The results suggest the following: First, reductions in public subsidies for higher education may encourage higher education institutions to enter into market activities. Second, the results provide evidence that new circuits of knowledge, namely, academic capitalist knowledge regimes, are more highly associated with market activities such as university–industry collaboration and R&D performance comp...
This paper compares education policies and outcomes during the periods of modernization in Turkey... more This paper compares education policies and outcomes during the periods of modernization in Turkey and South Korea. Though the modernization era in these countries occurred at different periods of time-in Turkey from 1923 to 1938 and in South Korea from 1963 to 1979-both were implemented under the centralized authoritarian leadership. Controversial leaders, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey and Chung-hee Park in South Korea, each initiated that drastic reforms aimed at building a modern nation state, and new education policies acted as an important means for both to achieve their modernization objectives. However, despite a shared goal of modernizing society, the process and contents of education policy were strikingly different in Turkey and South Korea, and the outcomes also differed sharply. This paper argues that the religious context of Turkish society, and the conflict between secularism and Islam in particular, constitutes a major reason for slower progress in economic growth and development there compared to Korea.
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