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Chris R. Glass
Program Director, Higher Education, Ed.D.
Professor of the Practice
Chris R. Glass
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion 205B
Telephone: 617-552-4285
Email: chris.glass@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., Michigan State University
- B.A., University of Texas at Austin
Courses
Leading Teaching and Learning
Global Perspectives on Student Affairs
Executive Doctoral Seminar I and II
Research Interests
AI & Governance
Geopolitics of Knowledge
Global Student Mobility
Leadership Formation
Expertise
- Comparative & International Education
- Educational Leadership & Policy
- Higher Education
Department
Profile
Chris R. Glass is Professor of the Practice at 艾可直播 College, where he directs the Executive Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Higher Education. He studies how universities lead through technological and geopolitical change, as artificial intelligence, demographic change, and declining public trust reshape what higher education is, who it serves, and how it is governed.
His research focuses on artificial intelligence, internationalization, global student mobility, and the future of higher education. Rather than treating these as separate conversations, he seeks to understand how they interact as parts of the same changing system. Beneath each lies a broader question: how can institutions cultivate human agency, sustain public trust, and advance human flourishing in an age of increasingly intelligent technologies?
He has served on UNESCO's Action Group on the Futures of Higher Education, the ASHE Presidential Commission on Artificial Intelligence, and 艾可直播 College's AI Steering Committee. He is a frequent analyst for major publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post,听Nature, Foreign Policy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more. He writes on AI, leadership, and the future of higher education on , , and .
In the Executive Ed.D., he works with experienced leaders on the long work of leading well: developing the judgment, agency, and moral imagination to lead through uncertainty without losing their public purpose.
Select Publications
- Glass, C. R., & Minaeva, E. (2025). Four eras of international student mobility (1945鈥�2025): Multipolar securitization, strategic education blocs, and the rise of middle powers. Journal of Global Higher Education, 1(1), 69鈥�88.听
- Kaya-Ka艧谋kc谋, S., Glass, C. R., Camero, E. C., & Minaeva, E. (2025). University positioning in AI policies: Comparative insights from national policies and non-state actor influences in China, the European Union, India, Russia, and the United States. Higher Education Quarterly, 79(4), e70062.听
- Glass, C. R., Kaya-Ka艧谋kc谋, S., Camero, E. C., & Minaeva, E. (2025). National AI security strategies: Impacts on universities. International Higher Education.听
- Glass, C. R., & Blanco, G. (2025). The new analytics-industrial complex in higher education: Data, governance, and power. International Higher Education.
- de Wit, H., Altbach, P. G., & Glass, C. R. (2025). Global higher education transformation: The 2025 international crisis. International Higher Education.听
- Kaya-Ka艧谋kc谋, S., & Glass, C. R. (2025). Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: A social network approach. Higher Education, 89(3), 573鈥�589.听
- Glass, C. R., & Cruz, N. I. (2022). Moving towards multipolarity: Shifts in the core-periphery structure of international student mobility and world rankings (2000鈥�2019). Higher Education, 85(2), 415鈥�435.听
- Woodman, T. C., Whatley, M., & Glass, C. R. (Eds.). (2023). Digital internationalization in higher education: Beyond virtual exchange. Routledge.