scholarly journals Hybrid Experiments in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lee Kleinman ◽  
Noah Weeth Feinstein ◽  
Greg Downey ◽  
Sigrid Peterson ◽  
Chisato Fukada
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Norms

In response to the many pressures facing public higher education, public universities are experimenting with business-oriented practices that seem likely to alter their nature and purposes. In this paper, we examine several hybrid experiments—new organizational strategies intended deliberately, sometimes explicitly, to hybridize the traditional norms and practices associated with academia and business at one emblematic public university. These cases illustrate how each hybrid experiment is a tacit response to existing norms and strategies that govern the university–business boundary, initiated as a hedge against the challenging fiscal and political climate. Taken together, they do not lead to a unitary and/or linear spread of business codes and practices. Instead, what some have referred to as “business logic” appears multifaceted, having many elements that are deployed, institutionalized, and perceived differently in different contexts, even within a single university.

The Changing Mission and Nature of Partnerships in Public Universities

2013 ◽  
pp. 726-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo ◽  
Kristin Brittain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
New Business ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

Reasons for public education are many; however, to crystalize and synthesize this, quite simply, public education is for the public good. The goal, or mission, of public education is to offer truth and enlightenment for students, including adult learners. Public education in the United States has undergone many changes over the course of the last 200 years, and now public education is under scrutiny and is facing a continual lack of funding from the states. It is due to these issues that public higher education is encouraging participatory corporate partnerships, or neo-partnerships, that will fund the university, but may expect a return on investment for private shareholders, or an expectation that curriculum will be contrived and controlled by the neo-partnerships. A theoretical framework of an academic mission and a business mission is explained, the impact of privatization within the K-12 model on public higher education, the comparison of traditional and neo-partnerships, the shift in public higher education towards privatization, a discussion of university boards, and the business model as the new frame for a public university. A public university will inevitably have to choose between a traditional academic mission that has served the nation for quite some time and the new business mission, which may have negative implications for students, academic freedom, tenure, and faculty-developed curriculum.

scholarly journals Integrated actions of information and knowledge management in the accountig sector of a public university

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzana de Lucena Lira ◽  
Emeide Nóbrega Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Public University ◽  
Methodological Aspect ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The University ◽  
Information And Knowledge Management

It discusses the relevance of information and knowledge management in an institution of public higher education. It focuses on the stimulus, which can be implemented through assertive actions in the creation and maintenance of organizational knowledge, and as a general objective, analyzing the actions of the management of information and the knowledge of the technical coordination of Accounting and Finance of the University. In the methodological aspect, the research is characterized as study of case and field, configured as a study of qualitative and quantitative, exploratory and descriptive nature. It uses as a tool for data collection an individual questionnaire, without identification, which allowed us to recognize the actions of IKM, through the ‘diagnosis of knowledge management’, in the perspective of Bukowitz and Williams, adopted as a parameter. For the organization and analysis of data, the analysis of content was made. The results obtained reveal that the findings of the survey were positive for the shares of IKM, although there is a need for improvement with regard to encouraging the sharing of knowledge in the areas that make the Coordination of Accounting and Finance of the University.

scholarly journals Wpływ wykorzystania dotacji ministerialnych i  funduszy unijnych na kształtowanie się zbiorów w bibliotece uczelni niepublicznej na  przykładzie biblioteki Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Toruniu

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Julita Niedźwiecka-Ambroziak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Education System ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The impact of ministerial grants and EU fundson the library of a non-public higher education institution as seen in the Library of the WSB University of ToruńThe article presents an outline of the legal basis of the operation of non-public higher education institutions and their place in the Polish education system. This is the background for the author’s analysis of the library and information systems of business schools that are part of the TEB SA group. The author focuses on extrabudgetary forms of expanding the library of anon-public univer­sity through the use of ministerial and EU grants. The case study presented in the article is that of the Library of the WSB University of Toruń. The author examines, on the basis of books inventoried in 2011–2016, the volume and percentage share of books acquired thanks to EU funds and ministerial grants. She demonstrates how the Library — which, owing to the business nature of the University, has specialist collections at its disposal — acquires new forms of books e-books in mobi and pdf files, e-book readers, audiobooks etc. as well as educational aids. She presents examples of how extrabudgetary funds can support and complement the main budget of the library of anon-public university in its initiatives aimed at creating amodern facility.

scholarly journals Strengthening Higher Education Space in Africa through North-South Partnerships and Links: Myths and Realities from Tanzania Public Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnson Ishengoma
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Public University ◽  
The North ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Capacity Building ◽  
Shed Light

Governments' cuts in research and development funding for public universities in Tanzania has compelled these institutions to establish and develop extensive partnerships and links with universities, and research centers in the North. The establishment of the North-South partnerships has also coincided with the dominance of external and heavy dependence on external donors for funding of research and development activities in the majority of Tanzania public universities. This article, using the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), public university, seeks to shed light on whether or not partnerships make any significant contribution to the institution’s capacity building. The thesis of this paper is that although N-S partnerships are instrumental in institutional capacity building; they have not significantly contributed to the strengthening of higher education space at UDSM and apparently at other public universities in Tanzania because of inherent structural imbalances and inequalities embedded in the partnerships. .

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-153
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Miami University ◽  
The University ◽  
Prime Directive

Teresa A. Sullivan of University of Virginia reviews “Saving Alma Mater: A Rescue Plan for America's Public Universities” by James C. Garland. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Examines how to reform the economic model of public higher education, drawing upon the example of Miami University of Ohio. Discusses where the money comes from; market forces in higher education; why public universities cannot restrain costs; the university prime directive; whether the faculty are ….”

scholarly journals Uwarunkowania wprowadzania programów naprawczych w publicznych szkołach wyższych

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Pisarska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
The University ◽  
Financial Balance ◽  
Core Activity

Universities and colleges prepare financial plans that are their budgets, and are obliged to control the costs, revenues and financial results. This study presents the determinants of preparing reorganization programmes leading to financial balance in public higher education institutions. The authors examined public universities, divided into 10 groups according to the method used by Central Statistical Office in Poland. The paper presents analysis of costs, revenues and financial results of the universities for the years 2007–2011. The analysis of basic dimensions of the universities’ activeness, with special emphasis on the educational and scientific dimension as well as associated with the development of the economic/local community, revealed the problem of too high costs or achieving too low earnings. On one hand, this is probably due to too small expenditures on higher education, on the other hand, because of ineffective use of the university resources. If there is no strict supervision over the level of costs of basic tasks carried out by universities, introducing a recovery programme may, in the future, concern most public universities. It will happen if their core activity (mainly educational) is not brought to balance between revenue and costs.

scholarly journals MEDIA EDUCATION AS AN ACADEMIC SUBJECT IN POLISH PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION

10.13166/jms/ ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Alina Gut
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
University Websites ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of the article is to discuss the issues related to teaching the subject of media education at Polish public universities. The article contains the analysis of the syllabuses of subjects from the 2019/2020 academic year, published on the university websites under USOS system, The basic research question, undertaken in the article, refers to the mutual compliance of the program contents described in individual syllabuses.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of public university expansion in Brazil: comparison between the situation of graduated and dropout students

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (107) ◽  
pp. 457-479
Author(s):  
Alexandre Nascimento de Almeida ◽  
Ivonaldo Vieira Neres ◽  
André Nunes ◽  
Celso Vila Nova de Souza Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Public University ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
University Expansion ◽  
Admissions Process ◽  
Expansion Policy

Abstract Starting in 2007 with the implementation of the Support Program to Restructure and Expansion Plans of Federal Universities (Reuni, acronym in Portuguese), Brazil doubled the number of admissions in public higher education within a decade, while also making the admissions process more inclusive. However, this rapid expansion has led to criticism regarding the loss of quality in public higher education. The objective of this study is to compare the labor market performances of successful graduated and dropout students who majored in four disciplines that encompass this expansion policy. The nonparametric Binomial and Mann-Whitney tests were used to compare the performances of the groups of students who had successfully graduated and those who had dropped out of their courses at the Planaltina campus of the University of Brasilia (UnB-FUP). The performance of the graduated students in our sample was worrisome, as our results show that there is a high number of unemployed students and, that among those employed, few work in the area they majored in, raising doubts about the effectiveness of the policy to expand the number of admissions in higher education held in Brazil.

We Want the Deal You Got

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Louis S. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
State Funding ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The University

How students and their supporters should respond to the collapse of state funding for public higher education in California, especially at the University of California.

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