Recruiting Foreign Teachers in Colleges and Universities: Talent Strategy and Implementation Path under the Background of Globalization

Recruiting foreign teachers in colleges and universities: talent strategy and implementation path in the context of globalization

Under the background of accelerating internationalization of higher education, the demand for foreign teachers in colleges and universities has shifted from a single language teaching to a multi-dimensional drive of discipline construction, scientific research innovation and cross-cultural communication. How to attract high-quality teachers with both academic strength and cultural adaptability has become a core issue for universities to enhance their international competitiveness. The following is to discuss the innovative practice of efficient recruitment of foreign teachers in colleges and universities from four aspects: recruitment orientation, screening mechanism, cultural integration and long-term development.

1. precise positioning: constructing discipline-oriented recruitment standards

1. matching of academic ability and research direction
• quantitative evaluation of scientific research achievements :< br/> except for the requirement of doctor's degree, it is necessary to focus on indicators such as the number of papers published by candidates in top international journals, the proportion of highly cited papers, and the experience of hosting scientific research projects, and give priority to the introduction of leading talents at the forefront of academic research.
• interdisciplinary background is preferred :< br/> for emerging interdisciplinary subjects (such as artificial intelligence and medicine, environmental science and policy), teachers are required to have interdisciplinary research experience, such as compound scholars with both engineering and public management background.

1. teaching ability combined with local needs
• bilingual teaching ability certification :< br/> candidates are required to provide full English teaching video or student evaluation report, and to examine their ability to design Chinese-assisted teaching programs to ensure that they can meet the language acceptance of Chinese students.
• curriculum localization design experience :< br/> give priority to the introduction of teachers who have participated in the localization of international courses, such as transforming MIT open courses into practical cases suitable for the teaching mode of Chinese universities.

2. efficient filtering: technology-enabled whole process optimization

1. AI-assisted preliminary screening system
• intelligent analysis of academic achievements :
  uses natural language processing technology to extract data such as paper topic, citation frequency, cooperation network, etc., automatically generates academic influence reports, and quickly identifies high potential candidates.
• video interview behavior analysis :
  through speech emotion recognition, eye contact frequency and other technologies, evaluate teachers' communication ability, academic enthusiasm and cultural openness, and reduce artificial evaluation deviation.

1. multi-dimensional evaluation mechanism
• in-depth review by academic committee :< br/> organize internal academic leaders and international peer experts to form a review panel, comprehensive scoring from the perspective of research originality, teaching feasibility, team fit and so on.
• student representatives participated in the trial lecture :
  students of relevant majors were invited to participate in the 15-minute simulated class to feedback key indicators such as clarity of teaching logic and rationality of interactive design from the perspective of learners.

3. cultural integration: create an inclusive academic ecology

1. adaptive support before employment
• pre-training on academic norms :< br/> provide online courses such as Chinese scientific research ethics and definition of academic misconduct to help teachers understand the rules of the local academic environment and avoid compliance risks caused by cultural differences.
• digital platform for life services :
  develop APP that integrates rental, medical care, children's schooling and other functions, and embed guidelines for dealing with cultural differences (such as "how to build trust with local colleagues" and "social skills for academic conferences").

1. sustainable development support system
• cross-cultural tutor plan :< br/> provide each new teacher with academic tutor and cultural tutor, the former is responsible for scientific research direction guidance, the latter helps to solve the problem of life adaptation and forms a dual-track support mechanism.
• academic salons and workshops :
  thematic activities such as "Chinese academic tradition and modern research methods" and "cross-cultural team management" are regularly held to promote the ideological collision and experience sharing between Chinese and foreign teachers.

4. long-term development: build talent retention ecology

1. personalized career path planning
• ability development map :< br/> based on big data analysis, generate ability evaluation report including scientific research, teaching, social service and other dimensions for teachers, recommend customized development programs (such as "Young Scholars International Visit Program" and "Industry-University-Research Cooperation Project Incubation").
• diversified promotion channels :
  set up multi-track promotion paths such as "teaching professor", "scientific research professor" and "social service professor", clarify the evaluation criteria of each path, and stimulate teachers' differentiated development momentum.

1. academic resources and platform support
• international joint laboratory construction :< br/> build laboratories with top overseas universities to provide foreign teachers with opportunities for transnational scientific research cooperation, and supporting special funds to support the purchase of equipment and personnel exchanges.
• incentive for transformation of academic achievements :
  set up mechanisms such as patent application subsidy and technology transfer income sharing to encourage teachers to apply research results to industrial practice and enhance their sense of professional achievement.

5. industry value extension: promote the ecological upgrading of higher education

1. coordinated development of regional education
• distance teaching resource sharing plan :
  through 5G + holographic projection technology, high-quality foreign teachers' courses are delivered to neighboring universities in real time to solve the problem of unbalanced regional resources.
• teacher training public welfare project :
  workshops such as "international academic writing" and "cross-cultural curriculum design" are regularly held for local colleges and universities to improve the overall level of teachers in the region.

1. education quality evaluation system innovation
• student growth data tracking :< br/> to establish evaluation models of students' innovation ability, global vision and other dimensions in conjunction with third-party institutions, quantify the teaching effect of foreign teachers and provide the basis for recruitment optimization.
• international certification docking mechanism :
  align the recruitment criteria for foreign teachers with international ranking indicators such as QS and THE. for example, the proportion of newly recruited teachers with working experience in top overseas universities is required to be not less than 30%, so as to enhance the international reputation of the school.

After a "double first-class" university implemented the above strategy, the 6-month retention rate of foreign teachers increased to 82%, and the number of international cooperation projects in scientific research increased by 65%, student international academic competition award rate increased by 40%. This practice shows that the core of recruiting foreign teachers in colleges and universities is to build an ecological closed loop of "precise introduction-deep integration-long-term development"-through discipline-oriented screening, cultural tolerance support, and resource empowerment incentives, to build a team of international teachers that can not only promote academic innovation, but also promote mutual learning among civilizations. In the future, with the penetration of meta-universe, Web3.0 and other technologies, colleges and universities will further break through the physical boundaries and build a new form of global academic workplace that integrates virtual and real.