International Education and the Next-Generation Workforce

Victor C. X. Wang, a tenured associate professor, joined the faculty at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Dr. Wang’s research and writing activities have addressed workforce education, the foundations of adult education, adult teaching and learning, training, transformative learning, cultural issues in vocational and adult education, distance education, human performance technology, instructional/administrative leadership, assessment and evaluation of learning, and curriculum development. He has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters and books, including two encyclopedias and one handbook of research (each over 1,000 pages long) in 10 years and has been a reviewer for five national and international journals. He is the founding editor (Editor-in-Chief) of the International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology. He has won many academic achievement awards from universities in China and in the United States, including the Distinguished Faculty Scholarly & Creative Achievement Award. Dr. Wang has taught extensively as a professor in Chinese universities (1989-1997) prior to coming to study and work (Kansas, Arkansas and California, 1997-2011) in the United States. He has taught across the curriculum for the past 23 years in university settings. He has had extensive experience in chairing and mentoring doctoral dissertations. Three of the books he has written and edited have been adopted as required textbooks by major universities in the United States, and in China. In addition, numerous universities worldwide including some Ivy League Universities have cataloged his books and journal articles.