Countering Bad Press about Higher Education with Institutional Vision

2014 ◽  
pp. 308-334
Author(s):  
Robert Abelman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Institutional Vision

This chapter summarizes findings from several investigations that have performed a DICTION-based content analysis of the mission and vision statements of distinctive types of academic institutions. Key linguistic components found to constitute a well-conceived, viable, and easily diffused institutional vision were isolated, measured, and compared to normative scores gathered from a nationwide sample of colleges and universities. Findings revealed significant stylistic differences across institution types regarding clarity, complexity, pragmatics, optimism, and the ability to unify the campus community. In doing so, they provided a prescription for how mission and vision statements can better serve as guiding, governing, and self-promotional documents, particularly in times of crisis, change, and negative press.

Contra-Diction

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Robert Abelman
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Institutional Vision

This article summarizes findings from several investigations that have performed a DICTION-based content analysis of the mission and vision statements of distinctive types of academic institutions. Key linguistic components found to constitute a well-conceived, viable, and easily diffused institutional vision were isolated, measured, and compared to normative scores gathered from a nation-wide sample of colleges and universities. Findings revealed significant stylistic differences across institution types regarding clarity, complexity, pragmatics, optimism and the ability to unify the campus community, as well as key differences between mission and vision statements. In doing so, they provided a prescription for how mission and vision statements can better serve as guiding, governing, and self-promotional documents, particularly in times of crisis, change and negative press.

Charting the Verbiage of Institutional Vision: Implications for Academic Advising

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Abelman ◽  
Amy Dalessandro ◽  
Patricie Janstova ◽  
Sharon Snyder-Suhy ◽  
Gary Pettey
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Academic Advising ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Academic Advisors ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Vision Statement ◽  
Institutional Vision ◽  
Theory Research

Whether and to what extent a college or university vision is embraced, transformed into action, and dispersed to the campus community by academic advisors is largely dependent on the rhetoric of the vision statement. Through a content analysis of a nation-wide sample of vision and mission statements from NACADA-membership institutions, we isolated key linguistic components that constitute a well-conceived, effective, and easily diffused institutional vision. The prevalence of these components and the types of academic institutions most likely to possess them are discussed. Ways in which this information can be used by advising supervisors to evaluate their own institution's vision and the vision of their advising operation are presented.Relative Emphasis: theory, research, practice

Reimagining the Internship and Practicum Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-155
Author(s):  
Jasmine Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Historically Black Colleges ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Black Colleges And Universities

In this chapter, the author will touch on the necessity of social entrepreneurship within the communication program curriculum. Higher education institutions, especially historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), commit themselves within their mission and vision statements to producing and molding the leaders of today. Since their inception, well-rounded leaders and entrepreneurs have been birthed from those historic halls and navigated their way to the highest heights of society. Therefore, it is imperative that students turned leaders must have an entrepreneurial skillset to make it within the courtroom, boardroom, classroom, and beyond.

scholarly journals A CONTENT ANALYSIS: THE VISION STATEMENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-367
Author(s):  
Chit’Jna Amary Kumang ◽  
Eeng Ahman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Official Site

This research is to find out the strategic plan of higher education institutions in Indonesia by analyzing the vision statements of the top 50 higher education institutions in Indonesia according to the Webometrics version in 2018. All vision statements were accessed through the official site of the higher education institutions and then the content analysis, segmentation based on the types of responsible authority (public-private) and the region (Java Island –outside Java Island) were conducted. The analysis of this study was conducted using Voyant Tools, a web-based application for conducting text analysis. The finding of this study was that there were 11 similar keywords used by nearly all higher education institutions. The visions made by the higher education institutions in Indonesia tend to expect quality improvement by targeting a better rank in the national and international scale education level and being future-oriented. It can be seen that 36% of the higher education institutions specifically make several targets in a particular period.

The Insider's Guide to Working with Universities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Dean ◽  
Deborah Y. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Alumni Associations

Colleges and universities stand to benefit greatly when businesspeople engage with them, whether through governing boards, alumni associations, consulting arrangements, philanthropy, or other channels. But many businesspeople are frustrated by the way institutions of higher education work--or rather, how they don't work. Why do decisions in universities take so long and involve so many people? Why aren't profit and growth top priorities for colleges? Why can't the faculty be managed like any other employees? Shouldn't alumni have a greater say as they continue to invest in their alma mater? As leaders in higher education, James W. Dean Jr. and Deborah Y. Clarke have years of experience addressing these questions for a wide range of professionals outside the academy. This book draws on their expertise to offer real-world guidance for businesspeople who work with and seek to improve colleges and universities. Dean and Clarke differentiate and clarify the motivations and structures that make universities unique among American enterprises. And while they acknowledge the challenges that businesspeople often face when working with academic institutions, they explain that understanding the distinct mission of higher education is essential to being able to effect change within these organizations. Presenting insights from interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, Dean and Clarke give succinct and practical advice for working with universities.

The (Mis)Uses of Race in Research on College Students: A Systematic Review

JCSCORE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-41
Author(s):  
Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Higher Education Journals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Race has been one of the most controversial subjects studied by scholars across a wide range of disciplines as they debate whether races actually exist and whether race matters in determining life, social, and educational outcomes. Missing from the literature are investigations into various ways race gets applied in research, especially in higher education and student affairs. This review explores how scholars use race in their framing, operationalizing, and interpreting of research on college students. Through a systematic content analysis of three higher education journals over five years, this review elucidates scholars’ varied racial applications as well as potential implicit and explicit messages about race being sent by those applications and inconsistencies within articles. By better understanding how race is used in higher education and student affairs research, scholars can be more purposeful in their applications to reduce problematic messages about the essentialist nature of race and deficit framing of certain racial groups.

Winning the Argument and Moving the Fight: The Legacy of a Grassroots Humanitarian

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Mary Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Winning Strategy ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Trade Offs

The author of this article argues that the two-decades-long litigation struggle was necessary to push the political actors in Mississippi into a more virtuous than vicious legal/political negotiation. The second and related argument, however, is that neither the 1992 United States Supreme Court decision in Fordice nor the negotiation provided an adequate riposte to plaintiffs’ claims. The author shows that their chief counsel for the first phase of the litigation wanted equality of opportunity for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as did the plaintiffs. In the course of explicating the role of a legal grass-roots humanitarian, Coleman suggests lessons learned and trade-offs from that case/negotiation, describing the tradeoffs as part of the political vestiges of legal racism in black public higher education and the need to move HBCUs to a higher level of opportunity at a critical juncture in the life of tuition-dependent colleges and universities in the United States. Throughout the essay the following questions pose themselves: In thinking about the Road to Fordice and to political settlement, would the Justice Department lawyers and the plaintiffs’ lawyers connect at the point of their shared strength? Would the timing of the settlement benefit the plaintiffs and/or the State? Could plaintiffs’ lawyers hold together for the length of the case and move each piece of the case forward in a winning strategy? Who were plaintiffs’ opponents and what was their strategy? With these questions in mind, the author offers an analysis of how the campaign— political/legal arguments and political/legal remedies to remove the vestiges of de jure segregation in higher education—unfolded in Mississippi, with special emphasis on the initiating lawyer in Ayers v. Waller and Fordice, Isaiah Madison

Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972110269
Author(s):  
Darrell Lovell ◽  
Stephanie Dolamore ◽  
Haley Collins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Remote Communication ◽  
Quality Feedback ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Administrative Communication ◽  
Feedback Channels

COVID-19 is forcing alterations to administrative communication. Higher education institutions transitioning online during the pandemic offers a fertile ground to analyze what happens to organizational communication within administration when the mode is primarily remote. Using a content analysis of emails and participant interviews, this work finds that while administrators intend to communicate empathy, messages fall short of fostering connection with faculty due to failing to cultivate buyin through quality feedback channels. The takeaways of this study of remote communication is that despite its mode, communication must be two way, and the authenticity of organizational communication becomes more important under pressure-filled circumstances.

scholarly journals Cultural Dimension in Internationalization of the Curriculum in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Maria José Sá ◽  
Sandro Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Bibliographic Search ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education

Internationalization in higher education seems to be an unavoidable process, albeit temporarily limited by the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease of 2019) pandemic. Specifically, internationalization of the curriculum in the context of higher education is a dimension of this internationalization that is less valued in published studies. This paper, through critical reflection, sought to contribute to a deeper understanding of internationalization of the curriculum in higher education. The methodology used consisted of a bibliographic search in international databases, and the selected documents were analyzed using the content analysis technique. This analysis allowed concluding that internationalization of the curriculum in higher education is a complex process and involves several actors, with various challenges to be considered. For this process to be successful, it involves the ability to be attentive to the cultural multiplicity that will be experienced in classes where this internationalization of the curriculum exists.

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