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Sheng-Ju Chan is professor of Higher Education in the Graduate Institute of Education and chief
executive officer of the International Program in Educational Leadership and Management
Development at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His areas of special interest are
higher education policy, comparative education, and higher education management. He is the
author of over a dozen publications in Chinese and English and also a higher education policy
advisor to the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Specializing in education in East Asia, Professor
Chan is the associate editor of the international journal Asian Education and Development Studies
published by Emerald. He is also the coeditor of a book series, Higher Education in Asia, sup-
ported by Springer. Professor Chan is substantially involved with the comparative education stud-
ies community and is the former secretary general of the Chinese Taipei Comparative Education
Society in Taiwan receiving the Society’s research award in 2011.
Ting-May Huang is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Institute of Education Entrepreneurship and
Management at National University of Tainan in Taiwan and also a full-time project assistant in the
University Learning Ecosystem for Taiwan Program at National Chiayi University. She received a
master degree at National Chung Cheng University and worked as a part-time research assistant.
Her Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the cross-border higher education mobility between Taiwan and
ASEAN. Academically, her research interest lies in the field of higher education, transnational
higher education, comparative education and higher education policy.
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