Underwood International College

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Higher Education (International and Comparative Higher Education), Boston College – Chestnut Hill, MA, 2020
• M.A., International Educational Development, Teachers College, Columbia University – NY, New York, 2016
• B.A., Economics, Boston College – Chestnut Hill, MA, 2004

Profile

Edward Choi (Ph.D., Boston College) is an Assistant Professor at Underwood International College (UIC), Yonsei University. He serves as an editorial board member of Educazione. Giornale di pedagogia critica. He worked as a Research Assistant at the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, a research institute devoted to the promotion of international perspectives in higher education scholarship and practice. He has coedited books as well as authored and co-authored articles and book chapters on a range of topics relating to Korean (private) higher education, higher education-government relations, institutional governance structures, traditional Korean education, academic collaboration, the internationalization of higher education, and the global phenomenon of family-owned universities. The bulk of his research focuses on extending the theoretical groundwork and assumptions of the family firm literature to understand the managerial behaviours of kinship groups involved in the ownership and management of higher education institutions.

Education

Ph.D. in Higher Education, May 2020, Boston College
M.A. in International Educational Development, May 2016, Teachers College, Columbia
B.A.in Economics, May 2004, Boston College

Courses and Current Research Areas

Courses taught at Yonsei:

• Research Design and Quantitative Methods (RDQM)
• Sociology of Education

Current research areas: Higher education, university-state relations, internationalization of HE, academic collaborations, family-owned or -managed universities 

Selected Publications

Books

2021. Education beyond Europe: Models and Traditions before Modernities. Brill | Sense. [with Christiano, C., & Woldegiyorgis, A., Eds.]
2020. Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer. [with Teixeira et al., Eds.]
2019. The Global Phenomenon of Family-owned or Managed Universities. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Brill | Sense. [with Altbach, P. G., Allen, M., & de Wit, H., Eds.]

Articles

2023. Shifting Study-Abroad Patterns of South Korean Students. International Higher Education, (116), 24-26. [Kim, K & Choi, E.]
2022. Family-Owned or -Managed Higher Education Institutions: A Key Dimension in Higher Education? Policy Reviews in Higher Education. [with Altbach, P., Allen, M.]
2022. Global South Research Collaboration. International Journal of African Higher Education, 9(3), 63-82. [with Gueye, A., Guzmán-Valenzuela, C., & Gregorutti, G.]
2022. Media review: Jeremy Breaden and Roger Goodman Family-Run Universities in Japan, Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–2030. Organization Studies. [with de Wit, H.]
2022. Internationalization of Medical Education — Motivations and Formats of Current Practices. Medical Science Educator. [with Wu, A., Diderich, M., Shamim, A., Rahhal, Z., Mitchell, M., Leask, B., & de Wit, H.]
2021. Family-Owned Universities: Fit for the Twenty-First Century? International Higher Education. [with Altbach, P. G., de Wit, H., and Allen, M.]
2020. Internationalization of Medical Education—a Scoping Review of the Current Status in the United States. Medical Science Educator. [with Wu, A., Leask, B., Unangst, L, & de Wit, H.]
2020. Needed More than Ever: Internationalization of Medical Education. International Higher Education, no. 104. [with Wu. A., Noel, P. J. C. G., Leask, B., Unangst, L., & de Wit, H]

 Book Chapters

2022. Higher Education-Government Relations under COVID-19: The Korean Case. In Netswera, F., Karabchuk, T., & Woldegiyorgis, A. Eds. Higher Education under the COVID-19. Brill | Sense. [with Kang, S.]
2022. The Korean Case of International Student Recruitment: Remarkable Progress but Internally Flawed. In de Wit, H., Minaeva, E., & Wang, L. Eds. International
Student Mobility and Recruitment in non-English speaking countries, Global Trends and Strategic Choices for Russian Higher Education. Routledge.
2021. Education in Premodern Korea: Commitment, Resiliency, and Change. In Christiano, C., Choi, E., & Woldegiyorgis, A. Eds. 'Early Modern' Education: Global Perspectives beyond Europe (pp. 48-70). Brill | Sense. [with Hwang, S.]
2019. Family Involvement in University Management. In Altbach, P., Choi. E., Allen, M., & de Wit, H. Eds. The Global Phenomenon of Family- Owned or Managed Universities (pp. 29-41). Brill | Sense [with Allen, M.]
2019. Family-Owned Universities and Colleges: A Dark Future of Speculation. In Altbach, P., Choi, E., Allen M., & de Wit, H. Eds. The Global Phenomenon of Family- Owned or Managed Universities (pp.182-197). Brill | Sense.
2019. A Model of Family-Based Higher Education Management—Challenges and Opportunities. In Altbach, P., Choi, E., Allen, M., & de Wit, H. Eds. The Global Phenomenon of Family-Owned or Managed Universities (pp. 257-280). Brill | Sense. [with Allen, M., de Wit, H., & Altbach, P.]