The purpose of the CIHE Research Award is to recognize a highly significant research outcome in the field of international higher education. Unlike a lifetime achievement award, or an award that focuses on a particular form of research (e.g., a dissertation award), the CIHE Research Award is focused on state-of-the-art knowledge and scholarship, whether it is manifested in a journal article, book, edited volume, research initiative, or other top quality contribution which significantly changed the existing thinking on a topic in the field.