Public Oral Defense: Sarah M. Pattison

Humanizing the International Higher Education Practitioner-Faculty Relationship

Advisor: Tania D. Mitchell

This study examines how International Higher Education (IHE) practitioners at public universities in the United States perceive interactions with those in the faculty role when working to achieve internationalization aims. Additionally, this study explores the insights these practitioners hold for developing and sustaining generative relationships with faculty members. The findings of this study demonstrate that IHE practitioner-faculty relationships are essential to the advancement of the field, yet are stymied by hierarchy and elitism in higher education. Recommendations for empowering and developing IHE practitioners, emboldening constructive behavioral choices, fostering cooperative cultural values, and establishing egalitarian structures are discussed.

Burton Hall 206G or online via Zoom