[KS] New Book: Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul

[Stephanie Kim]

Dear Korean Studies colleagues,

I'm thrilled to share with you that my book is available from The MIT
Press. Titled *Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit
Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545143/constructing-student-mobility/>*,
the book is about the lengths to which universities will go to expand
enrollments as they draw from the same pool of top South Korean students.

The press is offering 10% when ordering and using code MIT10 through Penguin
Random House
<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722490/constructing-student-mobility-by-stephanie-k-kim/9780262545143>.
It will also be available shortly as an open access text that might be
useful for assigning individual chapters in your courses.

Best,
Stephanie

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Constructing Student Mobility
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545143/constructing-student-mobility/>How
Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul

How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student
markets—and how university financials shape students' lives.
The popular image of the international student in the American imagination
is one of affluence, access, and privilege, but is that image accurate? In
this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim challenges
this view, arguing that universities—not the students—allow students their
international mobility. Focusing on universities in the US and South Korea
that aggressively grew their student pools in the aftermath of the Great
Recession, Kim shows the lengths universities will go to expand enrollments
as they draw from the same pool of top South Korean students.

Kim closely follows several students attending a university in Berkeley and
a university in Seoul. They have chosen different paths to study abroad or
learn at home, but all are seeking a transformative educational experience.
To show how student mobility depends on institutional structures, Kim
demonstrates how the universities themselves compel students' choices to
pursue higher learning at one institution or another. She also profiles the
people who help ensure the global student supply chain runs smoothly, from
education agents in South Korea to community college recruiters in
California. Using ethnographic research gathered over a ten-year period in
which international admissions were impacted by the Great Recession,
changes in US presidential administrations, and the COVID-19
pandemic,* Constructing
Student Mobility* provides crucial insights into the purpose, effects, and
future of student recruitment across the Pacific.

Author

Stephanie K. Kim's research on international student mobility emerged from
her work at the University of California, Berkeley and as a Fulbright
scholar at Yonsei University in South Korea. She is Associate Professor of
the Practice in the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University,
where she also directs the master's program in Higher Education
Administration.

Praise
*“Combining broad institutional analysis with granular details and vivid
voices, Constructing Student Mobility provides a compelling—and
changing—portrait of the linchpin of global education. Kim's book is
requisite reading for anyone interested in higher education today.”*

John Lie, C. K. Cho Professor of Sociology, University of California,
Berkeley

*“Innovative and beautifully-written, this book focuses on both
institutional configurations to shape global student mobility and
individual-level student motivations and actions to achieve their own
education mobility. A must-read.”*

Yingyi Ma, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Sociology, Syracuse University; author of *Ambitious and
Anxious: How Chinese Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher
Education*

*“Kim artfully transports readers across the globe in this important,
expertly crafted text. Its relevance and implications reach far beyond
Seoul and Berkeley. Definitely the very best thing I've ever read on
international student mobility.”*

Shaun Harper, Provost Professor, University of Southern California

*“As a fellow Korean American, I am proud that such a book about students
from my homeland exists. As a scholar in the field, I gained a deeper
appreciation of the new future of international student mobility.”*

Jenny J. Lee, Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice,
University of Arizona; editor of *U.S. Power in International Higher
Education*



*Stephanie K. Kim, Ph.D. (she/her)*
Associate Professor of the Practice
Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
640 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
stephanie.kim at georgetown.edu
Faculty Page
<https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0033600001SxHXVAA3/stephanie-kim>

Senior Editor, *Journal of International Students
<https://ojed.org/index.php/jis/index>*

Author of *Constructing Student Mobility
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/constructing-student-mobility> *(The MIT
Press, 2023)
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