scholarly journals The Ties that Corporatize: A Social Network Analysis of University Presidents as Vectors of Higher Education Corporatization

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tressie McMillan Cottom ◽  
Sally Hunnicutt ◽  
Jennifer A. Johnson

In this paper we demonstrate how social network analysis can model the extent and type of corporatization theorized to be occurring in U.S. higher education by tracing presidents’ career histories from a heterogeneous sample of U.S. colleges and universities (n=215) across not-for-profit public universities, for-profit universities and corporations.

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Hwa Liou ◽  
Alan J. Daly

PurposeThis study responds to major administrative and policy priorities to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education by investigating a multi-sector ecosystem of regional organizations that support a STEM pipeline for education and careers.Design/methodology/approachWe use social network analysis to investigate an entire region within a geographic region of California which included 316 organizations that represent different stakeholder groups, including educational institutions (school districts, schools and higher education), government, private companies, museums, libraries and multiple community-based organizations. This STEM ecosystem reflects a systems-level analysis of a region from a unique social network perspective.FindingsResults indicate that organizations have a surface-level access to STEM-related information, but the deeper and more intense relationship which involves strategic collaboration is limited. Further, interactions around information and collaboration between organizations were purportedly in part to be about education, rarely included PK-12 schools and district as central actors in the ecosystem. In addition, while institutions of higher education occupy a central position in connecting and bridging organizations within the ecosystem, higher education's connectivity to the PK-12 education sector is relatively limited in terms of building research and practice partnerships.Originality/valueThis research has implications for how regional-level complex systems are analyzed, led and catalyzed and further reflects the need to intentionally attend to the growth of STEM networks.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1339 ◽  
pp. 012029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hamirul Hamizan Roslan ◽  
Suraya Hamid ◽  
Mohamad Taha Ijab ◽  
Sarah Bukhari

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Geraldo Magela Rodrigues de Vasconcelos ◽  
Ester Sarah Liandro ◽  
Velcimiro Inácio Maia ◽  
Gustavo Melo Silva

This work has investigated the academic relationships of five classes, 185 students, from an Undergraduate Business Administration course. The Social Network Analysis (SNA) research technique has been used. The results show that homophilia is predominant in the formation of groups. Only in one class does performance have a greater influence. The “cliques” were more clearly defined in only one class. The analysis of the results also indicates that students with social brokerage roles perform better than their peers.


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