The University Population in World Society and University Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
David John Frank ◽  
John W. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
General Capacity ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
University Population ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

This chapter presents the exploding numbers and broadening capacities of students and professors that skyrocket over time, especially as the hyper-modern society assembles around the university-based knowledge system. It discusses how schooling is seen as relevant for more and more sorts of people and points out how the dimensions of people are activated and incorporated. It also looks at people that are involved and seen not simply as passive entrants but as executors of ever more legitimate interests and capacities that is above all the general capacity for empowered choice or actorhood. The chapter describes the properly schooled person that is imagined to be a dramatic social actor, fit to master and change the world and not simply to be a carrier of received culture. It applies a neo-institutional perspective to the expansion of the university populations of reconstructed individual people.

The University of Groningen in the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Berkel ◽  
Guus Termeer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
International University ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

The University of Groningen has been an international university since its foundation in 1614. The first professors formed a rich international community, and many students came from outside the Netherlands, especially from areas now belonging to Germany. Internationalization, a popular slogan nowadays, is therefore nothing new, but its meaning has changed over time. How did the University of Groningen grow from a provincial institution established for religious reasons into a top-100 university with 36,000 students, of whom 25% come from abroad and almost half of the academic staff is of foreign descent? What is the identity of this four-century-old university that is still strongly anchored in the northern part of the Netherlands but that also has a mind that is open to the world? The history of the university, as told by Klaas van Berkel and Guus Termeer, ends with a short paragraph on the impact of the corona crisis.

scholarly journals The Continuing Education of Faculty as Teachers at a Mid-sized Ontario University

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine M Carter ◽  
Bettina Brockerhoff-Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
North American ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Groupes De Discussion ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

The findings outlined in this paper are the result of focus groups conducted with faculty at a mid-sized Ontario university. These nine faculty, all of whom have received awards of excellence from their university for their teaching, shared their insights about how they developed as teachers over time. More specific topics explored were as follows: how they first learned about teaching; how they continue to learn about teaching; resources that might have helped early in their teaching careers at the university; and advice they have about teaching for new university teachers, mid-career teachers, and teachers approaching retirement. While many of the observations offered here are specific to Ontario and some of the literature review is North American in focus, the paper offers valuable insights into how faculty learn to be teachers which may be helpful to universities around the world. Cet article présente les résultats d’entrevues menées avec des groupes de discussion composés de membres du corps professoral d’une université ontarienne de taille moyenne. Les 9 professeurs participant ont tous reçu des prix d’excellence de leur université pour leur enseignement. Lors de ces rencontres, ils ont expliqué comment ils ont évolué à titre d’enseignants au fil du temps. Les sujets particuliers suivants ont été abordés : leurs premiers apprentissages en matière d’enseignement; leurs apprentissages subséquents; les ressources qui les ont aidés tôt dans leur carrière d’enseignant à l’université; les conseils qu’ils ont à offrir aux enseignants universitaires qui viennent de débuter leur carrière, à ceux qui sont à mi-parcours et à ceux qui approchent de la retraite. L’article fournit un aperçu utile sur la façon dont les membres du corps enseignant apprennent à devenir des enseignants. Même si bon nombre des observations présentées sont spécifiques à l’Ontario et si une partie de la recension des écrits est d’origine nord-américaine, ces informations peuvent servir aux universités à l’échelle internationale.

scholarly journals Students’ learning can be enhanced via Centres of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A quick view all over the world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Asimakopoulos ◽  
Thanassis Karalis ◽  
Katerina Kedraka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
University Population ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

This paper studies the Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL) of the 100 top Universities in the world and investigates their role and services. The vast majority of these Centers is located in educational institutions of the US, the UK, Australia and Canada. CTL services cover many areas and target several portions of the university population. They try to meet contemporary requirements and aim to enhance teaching, learning and research processes.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF ROMANIAN IT INDUSTRY; STRATEGIC DIAGNOSTICS USING MICHAEL PORTER'S MODEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Cătălina Florentina ALBU ◽  
◽  
Ștefan Cătălin POPA ◽  
Ana Alexandra GORA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Michael Porter ◽  
The World ◽  
Favorable Change ◽  
Over Time

The information technology (IT) sector represents a phenomenon of modern society, which has led to a favorable change in the economic course, in most countries of the world. This study aims to establish the attractiveness of the IT industry in Romania, as well as the factors that led to the development of the competitive environment, through a strategic diagnosis using a tool for strategic analysis and diagnosis - the model of the five forces, developed by Michael Porter. The results of the study indicate that all five strengths of Michael Porter's model exert significant influence, but in different proportions, on the competitive environment and the degree of attractiveness of the IT industry. Although Porter's model offers a clear strategic frame of the IT industry, it is quite static, and the manifestation of the five forces does not maintain its validity over time.

scholarly journals ISSUES OF THE NOTARIAL SYSTEM IN THE RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM IN MODERN CONDITIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Georgiy I. Pescherov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rational Solution ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
The Law

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problems of notaries in the law enforcement system of Russia in modern conditions. The author adheres to the scientific position of a wide range of the “law enforcement system”, where any activity in society should be aimed at ensuring the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens. Based on this, identifying the problems of notaries and their causes is the key to finding a rational solution towards the formation of the institution of notaries that meets the requirements of modern society. The main disputes of specialists are concentrated in the fluctuations between public and private notaries, as well as in the choice of a direction of development like the Latin notary and the introduction of the model of an active notary, where each direction has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, the process of development of society is endless and the ongoing globalization processes in the world require the unification of the activities of the notary, taking into account the national, ethnic and historical characteristics of states, which, ultimately, will significantly simplify economic and business cooperation between peoples of different countries.

scholarly journals A Tale of Garbage

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Ian McTaggart
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

In 1973, an American archaeologist named Dr. William Rathje sought to create a method that would help his students understand the intricacies of archaeological fieldwork. Dr. Rathje recognized that his students at the University of Arizona were having a difficult time understanding cultural remains from the past (Rathje, 1979, p. 4), so his idea was to use contemporary cultural material waste as a study tool. He named this method “The Garbage Project.” Given that the project took place during 1970s and students of the time were far removed from potsherds and post holes, it made sense to articulate archaeological sites in a contemporary way. Over time, this process would come to be known as garbology, which has come to inform both past research and present-day disciplines such as economics and public policy. This paper will outline the cross-discipline benefits that archaeology brings to modern society, including how it informs us about sustainability issues and how human societies interact and identify with their waste.

Institutional Leadership and Governance

2016 ◽  
pp. 316-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muritala Olakitan Awodun
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context ◽  
Leadership Context ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Over Time

This chapter, which is about institutional leadership and governance, examines leadership from the institutional perspective, but, in the African context. Context is virtually important because it shapes the opportunity structure of any time (Mayo & Nohria, 2005). The peculiarity of the African continent would require that the chapter examines leadership and governance as most of the economies of Africa are still practically dominated by government activities in so many dimensions where governance is poor. Neglecting governance therefore would mean not doing justice to the leadership context. Since leadership in context is not leadership that emerges solely from the qualities of the human character, but leadership that springs forth from an appreciation and understanding of one's situation in the world, and the situation, in this respect includes; economic, social and political conditions that change over time, and these changes require distinct leadership styles and approaches for success, the tripod of institution, leadership and governance are therefore critical for success.

scholarly journals The International experience of ensuring cybersecurity in the country and possibility of its application in Ukraine.

Dixi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Revista Dixi ◽  
Oksana Vasilievna Pchelina ◽  
Yevhenii Deoniziyovych Skulysh ◽  
Iurii Buglak ◽  
Roman Victorovich Myroniuk
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Characteristic Features

The purpose of this article is to reveal the essence and characteristic features of cybersecurity as one of the most important components of stable functioning of the modern society. Examples of successful experience of developed foreign countries on cybersecurity are considered, and possible ways of its use in Ukraine are offered. In particular, the public’s attention is focused on extremely important issues such as national defense in cyberspace, protection of private legitimate interests of individuals in the network and effective information policy by the state towards citizens. It is noted that the cybersphere has long been one of the most important components of the world society and the world economy. This statement is primarily based on the fact that today more and more banking, trade and other settlement or logistics operations, both within one country and in international relations, are carried out using modern computer, telecommunications and other innovative technologies and devices. It is stated that the sphere of public life, which is outlined in this article, is in dire need of its clear and unambiguous legal regulation. This is especially true in developing countries, including Ukraine. After all, their state system and legal framework are not yet stable and stable. The authors’ definitions of “cybersecurity”, “cyber-subjectivity” and “network sovereignty” are offered. In addition, the relationship between the level of development of the cybersphere in a particular country and the level of its economic development and general financial well-being was studied. It is determined that it is extremely important for Ukraine to adopt the successful experience of some developed foreign countries in the field of protection and processing of information in cyberspace.

The Center for International Biomedical Communications Research

1966 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
A. Kent ◽  
P. J. Vinken
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Excerpta Medica Foundation

A joint center has been established by the University of Pittsburgh and the Excerpta Medica Foundation. The basic objective of the Center is to seek ways in which the health sciences community may achieve increasingly convenient and economical access to scientific findings. The research center will make use of facilities and resources of both participating institutions. Cooperating from the University of Pittsburgh will be the School of Medicine, the Computation and Data Processing Center, and the Knowledge Availability Systems (KAS) Center. The KAS Center is an interdisciplinary organization engaging in research, operations, and teaching in the information sciences.Excerpta Medica Foundation, which is the largest international medical abstracting service in the world, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Buenos Aires, will draw on its permanent medical staff of 54 specialists in charge of the 35 abstracting journals and other reference works prepared and published by the Foundation, the 700 eminent clinicians and researchers represented on its International Editorial Boards, and the 6,000 physicians who participate in its abstracting programs throughout the world. Excerpta Medica will also make available to the Center its long experience in the field, as well as its extensive resources of medical information accumulated during the Foundation’s twenty years of existence. These consist of over 1,300,000 English-language _abstract of the world’s biomedical literature, indexes to its abstracting journals, and the microfilm library in which complete original texts of all the 3,000 primary biomedical journals, monitored by Excerpta Medica in Amsterdam are stored since 1960.The objectives of the program of the combined Center include: (1) establishing a firm base of user relevance data; (2) developing improved vocabulary control mechanisms; (3) developing means of determining confidence limits of vocabulary control mechanisms in terms of user relevance data; 4. developing and field testing of new or improved media for providing medical literature to users; 5. developing methods for determining the relationship between learning and relevance in medical information storage and retrieval systems’; and (6) exploring automatic methods for retrospective searching of the specialized indexes of Excerpta Medica.The priority projects to be undertaken by the Center are (1) the investigation of the information needs of medical scientists, and (2) the development of a highly detailed Master List of Biomedical Indexing Terms. Excerpta Medica has already been at work on the latter project for several years.

Globalization and interconfessional communications

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Set ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Rapid Appearance

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.

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