scholarly journals Academic Governance and Leadership in Malaysia: Examining the National Higher Education Strategic Initiatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Chang Da Wan ◽  
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Morshidi Sirat ◽  
Dzulkifli Abdul Razak ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Governance ◽  
Strategic Initiatives

Invisible Injustice

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Raquel M. Rall ◽  
Demetri L. Morgan ◽  
Felecia Commodore
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Governance ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Demographic Shifts

Given the juxtaposition of student demographic shifts in public higher education with the near stagnancy of postsecondary leadership demographics, this chapter illuminates and critiques scholarship at the intersection of equity and academic governance, specifically focused on boards of higher education. Implications, grounded in a comprehensive literature review, frame a new conceptually focused research agenda concerned with (1) challenging homogeneity and hegemony that slow institutional change efforts, (2) pushing for a board representative of and accountable to the public, and (3) extending the research, knowledge, and conversation centered on higher education boards in general and diversity of boards in particular. The chapter per the authors first highlights the prominence of higher education governing boards then shifts to a critique of how governance has traditionally been researched. Afterward, the authors discuss why a concentrated look at issues of diversity and equity within the governance context is of paramount importance.

scholarly journals Competitiveness and Research-Oriented Teaching in Romanian Universities: The Neo-Liberal Transformation of the Higher Education System

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorin Gog
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Academic Governance ◽  
Role Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Management ◽  
Structural Mechanisms

Abstract This paper focuses on the recent neo-liberal transformation in the Romanian education system and analyzes the genealogy of a new form of academic governance that has been implemented in higher education institutions in the past decade. It examines the role quality indicators and supplementary funding have played in the gradual embedding and naturalization of neo-liberal disciplinary reforms in universities and the specific quality enhancement policies that aimed at increasing the productivity of academic workers by stimulating the competition among them. The main argument of the paper is that in order to understand the extensive academic management based on scientometrics and recurrent evaluation of academics we need to look at the structural mechanisms that have shaped higher education institutions in accordance with market rules and at the generalization of competitiveness throughout the system in the context of budget cuts and decreasing resources allocated to education.

scholarly journals World-Class Universities: Lessons for Slovenia

2015 ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Small Populations ◽  
Academic Governance ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

Slovenian universities are arguably the best in the central Europe. Slovenia's higher education context—and as- pirations—has relevance not only for other countries with small populations but also for universities with a traditional continental European pattern of academic governance and administration.

scholarly journals Charting Ahead: Navigating Threats and Challenges to the Urban-Serving Research University Mission

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desiree D. Zerquera ◽  
Erin E. Doran
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research University ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban Regions ◽  
Strategic Initiatives ◽  
University Mission ◽  
University Identity ◽  
The Cost

The higher education context that our CUMU institutions must navigate is complex and begets challenges resulting from the distinct mission our institutions seek to uphold. The implications of these challenges give rise to impacts on everyone within the institution and consequently our constituents within the cities we seek to serve. Bringing together literature, emerging research, and points from discussions at the 2016 CUMU conference, this paper analyzes challenges and their implications and highlights the strategies being employed to navigate them. We consider the tensions inherent in the urban-serving university identity, the cost of serving urban regions, and the state structures that provide funding. All of these tensions have implications for commitment to mission, access for historically marginalized students, and the experiences of faculty within the institution. We also discuss strategic initiatives and efforts that reflect collaboration, strategic alignment, and innovation. This work is of value for those working within urban-serving universities, those who work to uphold their mission in higher education, and policy makers that shape the context of these institutions’ work.

scholarly journals The “new spirit of academic capitalism”: Can scientists create generative critique from within?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena I. Kremakova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Academic Governance ◽  
Convention Theory ◽  
Potential Tool

The 21st-century university is a contested site of neoliberal transformation. Its role is moving away from that of a hub of culture, knowledge and critique to that of a provider of skills and employability for the market. The move towards a lean business model in the management of knowledge production is not an isolated phenomenon, but integral to the shifting economic, political and moral landscapes of global capitalism and the knowledge society. The literature discussing the changes in higher education, which could be collectively termed “critical studies of academia”, remains fragmented and is yet to yield tangible resistance or envision viable alternative models of academic governance. This article discusses the possibility of generating constructive critique of “the new spirit of academic capitalism” from within. French Convention Theory is employed as a conceptual toolbox for unpacking the worlds of worth, conventions and justifications which operate beneath the surface of the marketisation, acceleration and casualisation of scientific labour – and suggested as a potential tool for building a generative sociology of critique.

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