Lisa Unangst
Biographic Data
| ID | 2067446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Unangst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Unangst |
| SIGNATURE | UNANGST L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6478-9333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access
In recent years, humanitarian crises have displaced millions of people across the globe. This mixed-methods project examines US refugee resettlement agency (RRA) support for displaced individuals seeking to access postsecondary education. Drawing on survey data and complemented with key stakeholder interviews, we characterize how agencies frame their current populations of clients and their interests in postsecondary education, as well as the pro…
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees: Pathways, Policies, and Community Cultural Wealth
A Textual Analysis of Community College Internationalization Plans in the U.S. and Canada
Internationalization in the community college sector serves many purposes that align with the local and national contexts in which an institution is situated. One method of assessing how international efforts have become institutionalized is through the analysis of internationalization plans. Prior research examining internationalization plans and agendas is centered on the four-year sector, and studies on the two-year sector and comparative stud…
New developments in internationalisation of higher education
New developments in internationalisation of higher education
Supporting displaced students in US higher education: Examining institutional policy and practice
Despite welcoming millions of displaced individuals over the past 50 years, there is limited policy consideration of US higher education access for displaced learners. This study threads together Critical Race Theory and racialized organization theory to examine institutional websites and key administrator interviews to consider institutional policies and practices centering on displaced learners – refugees, asylees, and Temporary Protected Statu…
State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education
Higher education for displaced students is rarely the focus of academic literature in the context of the United States, despite 79.5 million people displaced worldwide as of December 2019 and 3 million refugees resettled in the United States since the 1970s (UNHCR, 2020). An estimated 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in the US by September 2022, and the executive branch has requested $6.4 billion in funds from Congress to support this resettlemen…
Coloniality in the German Higher Education System: Implications for Policy and Institutional Practice
This article focuses on the public German higher education sector as a site upon and through which coloniality is enacted. This status quo indicates exclusionary effects and merits interrogation. We briefly discuss the history of German colonialism to understand how coloniality pervades higher educational structures in the German context today. Two proposals addressing coloniality in German higher education are made: the development of structures…
Higher Education for Refugees: A Need for Intersectional Research
Refugees pursuing higher education in the context of host countries face numerous challenges, but the literature is sparse on relevant university supports. This article evaluates the existing transnational literature using quantitative textual analysis to point toward the need for scholarship on intersectional programs serving refugee students. We then move to outline examples of such university structures, probing how intersectional programs und…
Non-profit Organizations, Collaborations, and Displaced Student Support in Canada and the USA: A Comparative Case Study
Internationalization aimed at global social justice
The increased immersion of global higher education in a competitive, economy-oriented paradigm calls for perspectives on international interaction that are explicitly aimed at shaping cooperative, sustainable, and alternative futures. In Brazil, higher education internationalization efforts driven by the Brazilian government have historically been attached to the State's development interests. As they have consolidated in a hegemonic way (mainly …
International alumni affairs and an emerging trans-national public service landscape
International alumni affairs is a relatively new addition to the landscape of higher education, particularly outside the elite sphere of the Ivy League and Oxbridge. These privileged institutions have seen comparatively high numbers of international students enrol for many years and have gradually developed a formalised alumni presence in any number of countries worldwide. This paper analyses the current public or community service operations of …
Internationalization aimed at global social justice
The increased immersion of global higher education in a competitive, economy-oriented paradigm calls for perspectives on international interaction that are explicitly aimed at shaping cooperative, sustainable, and alternative futures. In Brazil, higher education internationalization efforts driven by the Brazilian government have historically been attached to the State's development interests. As they have consolidated in a hegemonic way (mainly …
Supporting displaced students in US higher education: Examining institutional policy and practice
Despite welcoming millions of displaced individuals over the past 50 years, there is limited policy consideration of US higher education access for displaced learners. This study threads together Critical Race Theory and racialized organization theory to examine institutional websites and key administrator interviews to consider institutional policies and practices centering on displaced learners – refugees, asylees, and Temporary Protected Statu…
State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education
Higher education for displaced students is rarely the focus of academic literature in the context of the United States, despite 79.5 million people displaced worldwide as of December 2019 and 3 million refugees resettled in the United States since the 1970s (UNHCR, 2020). An estimated 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in the US by September 2022, and the executive branch has requested $6.4 billion in funds from Congress to support this resettlemen…
Coloniality in the German Higher Education System: Implications for Policy and Institutional Practice
This article focuses on the public German higher education sector as a site upon and through which coloniality is enacted. This status quo indicates exclusionary effects and merits interrogation. We briefly discuss the history of German colonialism to understand how coloniality pervades higher educational structures in the German context today. Two proposals addressing coloniality in German higher education are made: the development of structures…
Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access
In recent years, humanitarian crises have displaced millions of people across the globe. This mixed-methods project examines US refugee resettlement agency (RRA) support for displaced individuals seeking to access postsecondary education. Drawing on survey data and complemented with key stakeholder interviews, we characterize how agencies frame their current populations of clients and their interests in postsecondary education, as well as the pro…
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees: Pathways, Policies, and Community Cultural Wealth
Non-profit Organizations, Collaborations, and Displaced Student Support in Canada and the USA: A Comparative Case Study
International alumni affairs and an emerging trans-national public service landscape
International alumni affairs is a relatively new addition to the landscape of higher education, particularly outside the elite sphere of the Ivy League and Oxbridge. These privileged institutions have seen comparatively high numbers of international students enrol for many years and have gradually developed a formalised alumni presence in any number of countries worldwide. This paper analyses the current public or community service operations of …
International alumni affairs and an emerging trans-national public service landscape
International alumni affairs is a relatively new addition to the landscape of higher education, particularly outside the elite sphere of the Ivy League and Oxbridge. These privileged institutions have seen comparatively high numbers of international students enrol for many years and have gradually developed a formalised alumni presence in any number of countries worldwide. This paper analyses the current public or community service operations of …
Higher Education for Refugees: A Need for Intersectional Research
Refugees pursuing higher education in the context of host countries face numerous challenges, but the literature is sparse on relevant university supports. This article evaluates the existing transnational literature using quantitative textual analysis to point toward the need for scholarship on intersectional programs serving refugee students. We then move to outline examples of such university structures, probing how intersectional programs und…
Non-profit Organizations, Collaborations, and Displaced Student Support in Canada and the USA: A Comparative Case Study
Internationalization aimed at global social justice
The increased immersion of global higher education in a competitive, economy-oriented paradigm calls for perspectives on international interaction that are explicitly aimed at shaping cooperative, sustainable, and alternative futures. In Brazil, higher education internationalization efforts driven by the Brazilian government have historically been attached to the State's development interests. As they have consolidated in a hegemonic way (mainly …
Coloniality in the German Higher Education System: Implications for Policy and Institutional Practice
This article focuses on the public German higher education sector as a site upon and through which coloniality is enacted. This status quo indicates exclusionary effects and merits interrogation. We briefly discuss the history of German colonialism to understand how coloniality pervades higher educational structures in the German context today. Two proposals addressing coloniality in German higher education are made: the development of structures…
State-Based Policy Supports for Refugee, Asylee, and TPS-Background Students in US Higher Education
Higher education for displaced students is rarely the focus of academic literature in the context of the United States, despite 79.5 million people displaced worldwide as of December 2019 and 3 million refugees resettled in the United States since the 1970s (UNHCR, 2020). An estimated 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in the US by September 2022, and the executive branch has requested $6.4 billion in funds from Congress to support this resettlemen…
A Textual Analysis of Community College Internationalization Plans in the U.S. and Canada
Internationalization in the community college sector serves many purposes that align with the local and national contexts in which an institution is situated. One method of assessing how international efforts have become institutionalized is through the analysis of internationalization plans. Prior research examining internationalization plans and agendas is centered on the four-year sector, and studies on the two-year sector and comparative stud…
New developments in internationalisation of higher education
New developments in internationalisation of higher education
Supporting displaced students in US higher education: Examining institutional policy and practice
Despite welcoming millions of displaced individuals over the past 50 years, there is limited policy consideration of US higher education access for displaced learners. This study threads together Critical Race Theory and racialized organization theory to examine institutional websites and key administrator interviews to consider institutional policies and practices centering on displaced learners – refugees, asylees, and Temporary Protected Statu…
Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access
In recent years, humanitarian crises have displaced millions of people across the globe. This mixed-methods project examines US refugee resettlement agency (RRA) support for displaced individuals seeking to access postsecondary education. Drawing on survey data and complemented with key stakeholder interviews, we characterize how agencies frame their current populations of clients and their interests in postsecondary education, as well as the pro…
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees: Pathways, Policies, and Community Cultural Wealth
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Higher education (8 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Business (4 works)