SIG Newsletter

August 2025

Dear SAIS Community, 

We are excited to be starting the 2025-2026 academic year. With each new year comes another CIES. This one will be hosted in San Francisco, CA, USA, from March 28 to April 1, 2026. There are now only a few days left until the deadline to submit! We hope that you will submit your work on international students or study abroad to our SIG (read the SIG conference call on our website). Thank you. 

-SAIS SIG Leadership Team

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A. HIGHLIGHTED ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. CIES PROPOSALS DUE AUGUST 26, 2025: You can read the full conference call on the CIES official website. The submission portal can be found at the All Academic site. Please make sure to pay attention to submission formats and requirements when submitting.  

2. CIES REVIEW VOLUNTEERS: Please also consider signing up to be a reviewer for CIES proposals and volunteer as a discussant/ chair for panels. It is this early work that makes the conference run smoothly. We need you. 

B. MEMBER NEWS / RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Mianmian Fei gave a talk titled "Racial Learning of International Students in the United States" about my two recent publications (including one published on JCIHE), which is made available as part of the New Research Brief video series of the Research with International Students network: Research with International Students. (2025, June 28). Mianmian Fei: Racial learning of international students in the United States [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdxGlcJTuo

2. Manaseri, H., Sustarsic, M., & Montano, R. L. (2025). Bridging Research to Practice: Transformative Inclusive Postsecondary Training through a Visual Lens. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 1–16.

3. Allen, R. M. (2025). Elite, Open-Access, or Predatory Journals? Conceptualizing the Full Spectrum of Global Academic Publishing in Higher Education. In Transforming Educational Research (pp. 164-184). Routledge.

4. Allen, R. M., & Chan, S. J. (2025). How Digital Exclusion Brings Higher Education Scandalization: Predatory Publishing in Taiwanese Universities. In Digitalisation, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Higher Education: Reflections on Theory and Practice, 38.

5. Open Call for SAIS SIG Newsletter Content: Don't forget to send us your requests for announcements and professional updates using our submission form!

C. OPPORTUNITIES

1. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education has several opportunities in upcoming issues: 

   1. EMERGING SCHOLARS Research Summaries 2026 Issue 18(3). This issue shares thesis or dissertation work-in-progress or original research in 1,000 - 1,600 words. Submissions are DUE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 

   2. SUMMER 2026: Examining Race, Racism, and Racialization in the Internationalization of Higher Education from Global Perspectives. Guest Editors: Louise Michelle Vital, Jing Yu, Punita Lumb & Benjamin Denga. Papers will examine dynamics through which race and racism and the processes of racialization shape and are shaped by internationalization practices in higher education across global contexts. Center race as an analytical lens in examining internationalization practices. Proposals are DUE: JULY 11 2025 

   3. SUMMER 2027: International Faculty in East Asia: Evolving Roles, Identities and Realities. Guest Editors: Peter G. Ghazarian and Jonathan Damiani. The Special Issue examines the lived realities of international faculty working in East Asia and how they navigate, shape, and are shaped by institutional and cultural contexts in which they work. Proposals are DUE: DECEMBER 12, 2025

2. CALL FOR CHAPTERS: The upcoming edited book, Generative AI for Supporting International Student Well-Being in Higher Education (IGI Global), welcomes chapter proposals from current and former international students, as well as from researchers, instructors, and staff who have worked with this population. Proposals due: September 17, 2025 Details and link: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9166

3. AWARDS & GRANT COMING: Be on the lookout for our upcoming SIG awards and grant announcements. You can look at some of our previous awards and awardees on our official SAIS website, as well as past grantees.   

4. EXEC MEETING: The SAIS leadership team will have its executive meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 4:00-4:45 PM PST.  All members are welcome to join this one. Zoom Link: https://soka-edu.zoom.us/j/95586996003 Meeting ID: 955 8699 6003