scholarly journals Evolution of Academic Freedom in the US Higher Education System as Part of Constitutional Principles

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mindia Ugrekhelidze ◽  
Ekaterine Bakaradze
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Us

FEATURES OF FUNDING AND THE RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITIES OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE USA (1919 – 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 225-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.N. MINAT ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Retrospective Assessment ◽  
The Us

The purpose of the study is to identify trends that determine the dynamics and structure of funding for the US higher education system. The subject of this study is the dynamics and structure of funding for the US higher education system. The relevance of the topic of the article lies in the substantiation of possible threats to the use of financial instruments that have passed the path of evolutionary development in America. In accordance with the purpose, a retrospective assessment of these trends has been carried out over a long period of time. To analyze the vast theoretical and statistical material on the stated problems, such methodological techniques and tools as retrospective assessment, statistical and economic analysis, comparative assessment, generalizations, and the inductive method were used. The results obtained reflect not only the stages of spatio-temporal evolution in the development of the American higher education system, but also reveal indicators that make it possible to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of this system over a century of research. The identified trends highlight the contradictory nature of funding for universities in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. On the one hand, the instruments and results of funding reflect the distinct American way of combining centralization and decentralization in the evolutionary development of a complex higher education system. On the other hand, they confirm the worldwide, ambiguous in qualitative assessment, practice of financing universities - reducing the share of government spending by increasing private investment.

scholarly journals How Much is a Full Professor Worth? The Challenge of Attracting the Best Talent

2015 ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Marcelo Knobel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Education System ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The State ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Higher Education System

There are many factors that motivate the pursuit of an academic career, including academic freedom, prestige, stability, curiosity, among others. However, salary is also key to the future career choices of young talent. In the State of São Paulo, in Brazil, the salary of all public servants is currently tied to the salary of the governor, that, for political reasons, is kept at a rather low value. This fact is already having an effect on thousands of faculty members in the higher education system of the State. In this paper, I discuss how this salary limitation can influence the decision of young talent to follow an academic career and, put at risk a rather well developed higher education system. Furthermore, I discuss this issue in a broader context of strong regulation, a lack of competitiveness to support career development, and how this all undermines the commitment and morale of qualified professors.

scholarly journals Chukanova S. О. Library Science and Information Science in the US Higher Education System: Monograph. Index of contents

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Dmytrenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library Science ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Us ◽  
Professional Mobility

The monograph discusses the organizational and methodological foundations of the professional training of specialists in library science and informology in the US higher education system: structure and content, forms of organization, orientation of professional training to ensure the professional mobility of these specialists. The directions of using the US experience in modernization of professional training of specialists of information, library and archives in Ukraine are defined and substantiated.

scholarly journals Approximation to a model of governance in public Universities of the province of Pichincha of Ecuador

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Betzabé del Rosario Maldonado Mera ◽  
José Javier Buenaño Cabrera ◽  
Karla Viviana Benavides Espinosa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
Institutional Representation

In the last decade, Ecuador's higher education system observes substantial changes, whose dynamics has stressed marked transformations within universities. This work follows the research from the perspective of internal governance, to make an approach to the prevailing models in universities involved in the study. The analysis considers a systemic approach, where the term governance is associated with the government's ability to define the work of higher education institutions and forms of internal organization to fulfill the role granted. The study is documentary type eminently qualitative, based on sources of information obtained from official websites of universities and various higher education organizations. In a complementary manner, a questionnaire was applied through a survey to advisers from the same institutions to confirm or contrast the conclusions generated. The principles of governance considered in the study are autonomy, academic freedom, accountability, participation and institutional representation. The results show that the control mechanisms implemented by the State influence within universities and shape differences in models exercised governance.

scholarly journals On the academic freedom in the times of crisis of liberal democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-743
Author(s):  
Janina Godłów-Legiędź
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Education System ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The University

Motivation: The crisis of liberal democracy reveals a new dimension to the dispute over the role of the university. Declining trust in elites and the growing uncertainty during the pandemic challenge the belief that the key aim of the university reform should be to subject it to the global mechanism of competition as well as to introduce modern management principles. In the American society, there is a growing belief that the higher education system in the United States is heading in the wrong direction and that universities are politically biased. Despite this, the American system inspires higher education all over the world, including Poland. Even during the pandemic, the attention of the academic community in Poland is focused on the lists of journals constituting the basis for the evaluation of universities and academics. Aim: The aim of the article is to demonstrate the threats posed by a higher education system governed by the dominant economic and political forces. The author evaluates the economic forces behind the parameterisation and ranking system, challenging the rationality of the Polish higher education reforms. The source of the arguments for academic freedom is the political economy that places economic goals in the perspective of long-term universal goals and examines the complex relationships between the economic, political and moral aspects. Results: Academic freedom is not a privilege of the academic world, but one of the foundations of the successful development of a democratic society because science and education cannot be subject to existing patterns of thinking and current economic and political forces. But modern universities are driven to act like firms in competitive market places and they are following trends set by short-term economic and politic interests. Political economy is an effective tool for analysing functioning of higher education operating in quasi-market conditions, imposed by the dominant market players and the state. Understanding the forces underlying the reform of universities requires an analysis of the processes of interpenetration of economic and political processes, which means that the paradigm of political economy is gaining importance. In view of the requirements imposed on universities, dictated by short-term interests, the most important thing is the awareness that the necessity of state financing means that no solution will guarantee autonomy, if there is no responsibility of the academic community and self-discipline of its members.

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