Opening the university culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-155
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Huck
2019 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Lu Feng

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's higher education and campus construction have made historic achievements. This paper reviews the history of this process in the 40 years, while summarises the characteristics and requirements of current new campus by comparing multiple new campuses in china. The paper uses East China University of Science and Technology as an example, to analysis the problems of neglecting the regional characteristics and far-fetched embodiment of university culture. This paper puts forward the concept of using regional characteristics to strengthen university culture, and unfolds in natural features, evolution process and farming habits within two specific plots.


2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Pearce ◽  
Barry Down ◽  
Elizabeth Moore

Through the use of narrative portraits this paper discusses social class and identity, as working-class university students perceive them. With government policy encouraging wider participation rates from under-represented groups of people within the university sector, working-class students have found themselves to be the objects of much research. Working-class students are, for the most part, studied as though they are docile bodies, unable to participate in the construction of who they are, and working-class accounts of university experiences are quite often compared to the middle-class norms. This paper explores how working-class students see themselves within the university culture. Working-class students' voices and stories form the focus of this paper, in which the language of ‘disadvantage’ is dealt with and the ideologies of class identity explored.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Adelina Rodríguez Pacios

Resumen. Desde la Sociología del Trabajo, la Antropología, la Sociología de Género, la Sociología de la Educación, se viene denunciando los procesos de segregación laboral a los que están sometidas las mujeres: horizontal y vertical. Desde la década de los ochenta del siglo XX, las aulas universitarias españolas están feminizadas. Proporcionalmente, las alumnas son mayoría entre los egresados, pero siguen teniendo más dificultades que sus compañeros para encontrar un trabajo, salir de la precariedad laboral, recibir el mismo salario por el mismo trabajo, tener las mismas oportunidades de promoción, etc. Y nos preguntamos si una institución como la Universidad, formalmente igualitaria, sede de la ciencia, la objetividad, la racionalidad, mantiene mecanismos de cierre y exclusión social que dificultan el acceso de las mujeres a la docencia universitaria, y de las profesoras a la promoción, especialmente la promoción al cuerpo de catedráticos de universidad, produciendo y reproduciendo lo que conocemos como techos de cristal. Se comprueba, a la luz de los datos, que las profesoras universitarias se concentran en determinadas Ramas de Conocimiento (segregación horizontal) y en determinadas categorías docentes (segregación vertical). El acceso y la promoción en la Universidad se asientan en la meritocracia, de ahí, su imagen de objetividad, neutralidad, igualdad de oportunidades. Es difícil entender y hacer entender que la propia cultura universitaria tiene sesgos, códigos de género, que aplican mecanismos de discriminación hacia las docentes. Es importante conocer las situaciones concretas que se viven dentro de las universidades. Y esto es lo que nos hemos propuesto para la Universidad de León (ULE).Adoptando la perspectiva de género y realizando un análisis de datos secundarios, comprobamos la segregación horizontal y vertical a la que están sometidas las docentes. Asimismo, descubrimos la existencia del techo de cristal: la proporción de catedráticas en la ULE es inferior a la media nacional.Palabras clave: género, enseñanza superior, discriminación, igualdad de oportunidades, universidad.Abstract. From the Sociology of Labor, Anthropology, Gender Sociology, and Sociology of Education, the processes of labor segregation to which women are subjected (horizontal and vertical) are being denounced. Since the eighties of the 20th century, Spanish university classrooms have been feminized. Proportionally, female students are the majority of the graduates, but they still have more difficulties than their peers to find a job, get out of job insecurity, receive the same salary for the same job, have the same opportunities for promotion, etc. In addition, we ask ourselves if an institution such as the university, formally egalitarian, seat of science, objectivity, rationality, maintains mechanisms of closure and social exclusion that hinder women’s access to university teaching, and female professors to promotion, especially the promotion to the body of university full professors, producing and reproducing what we know as glass ceilings. In the light of the data, it is verified that female university professors concentrate on certain branches of knowledge (horizontal segregation) and on certain categories of professors (vertical segregation).Access and promotion in the University are based on meritocracy, hence its image of objectivity, neutrality, equal opportunities. It is difficult to understand and make understand that the university culture itself has biases, gender codes, which apply mechanisms of discrimination towards female professors. It is important to know the concrete situations that are lived within the universities. Moreover, this is what we have proposed for the University of León (ULE).By adopting a gender perspective and analyzing secondary data, we verify the horizontal and vertical segregation to which the female professors are subjected. Likewise, we discovered the existence of the glass ceiling: the proportion of female professors in the ULE is lower than the national average.Keywords: gender, higher education, discrimination, equal opportunities, university.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Grira ◽  
Louis Jaeck

We investigate the determinants of students’ misconduct at university. Using a sample of 310 surveyed students, we find that students are more likely to cheat when they have previous misconduct records, when they perceive academic integrity policy as being poorly enforced, and when they perceive that instructor tolerance toward misconduct incidents is high. Moreover, misconduct behavior tends to increase with students’ seniority and the perceived level of course difficulty. Surprisingly, students’ motivations toward reading, writing, and learning do not seem to have a valuable impact on the likelihood of their misconduct. Our findings have important policy implications that relate to the university culture of academic integrity, instructors’ tolerance vis-à-vis students’ misconduct behavior, and the effectiveness of punitive actions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Santos Amâncio Cabral

The juridical and social recognition of differences and identities in the field of affirmative action policies aimed to promoting the access of people with disabilities to Brazilian Higher Education is an emerging in the national scenario. Thus, it is understood the need of discussions and theoretical, conceptual and juridical deepening that touches on the problematic. In this sense, the present research focused on the analysis of documents and studies on the subject in the spheres of political sciences, education, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. As result, it weaved a national and international historical contextualization crossed by movements that culminated in the democratization of the access at the Higher Education, tied by problematizations about the material equality of rights, recognition of the difference and the plurality of identities, affirmative action policies, quota system and allusions to the possible interests and mechanisms of state regulations that govern in this process. It is pointed out that affirmative action policies, even though they are recognized as important, do not seem sufficient for the access and permanence of people with disabilities in Brazilian higher education, once the university culture must be willing re-signified itself in this process, building opportunities in which differences and plurality of identities are recognized. 


distinctive character of eighteenth-century evangelicalism, the focus has to be upon the ways in which these four elements were changed, modified or dif-ferently understood, or how they were given an altered significance during this period. Here, the seventeenth-century historian moves beyond his strict sphere of competence and into the realm of speculation. However, it would seem that one key discontinuity between the puritan theology of the seventeenth cen-tury and much of the evangelicalism of the eighteenth is that of the university context. Certainly in the form of English and Dutch puritanism, seventeenth-century Protestantism represented a successful marriage between academic theology and pastoral concern, whereby supremely accomplished learning connected with the life of the everyday believer through the media of ser-mons, catechisms and the pastorates of men who were well versed in scholastic theology. As such, it held two apparently incompatible strands of Protestant thought and life together: the need for a responsible, learned and theological approach to the biblical text and the belief that every individual, from the greatest to the least, had the responsibility to believe in God for their own salvation. Events in the latter part of the seventeenth century, however, served to rupture this relationship. In England the Restoration of 1660 and the subsequent imposition of the Clarendon Code effectively terminated puritanism as a movement and excluded not only serving puritan ministers but also subsequent generations of Nonconformists from both the Anglican ministry and, more importantly, from the universities. When nearly 2,000 puritan ministers left the established church in 1662, they took their theological tradition away from its academic roots in a university culture which stemmed from the Middle Ages and had been modified by the Renaissance. Their heirs in English Nonconformity were often men of formidable intellect – the names of Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge spring immediately to mind – but they were not university men. They were not schooled in the language and thought forms of their puritan forebears and the theology they expounded did not coincide with that of their heritage in some of its most important aspects.


The design studio is the prototype of design education, particularly for architects but more and more for engineers too – though engineers prefer the word “lab” to “studio.” Although the design studio is known today mainly through the “reflection in action” theory of Donald Schön (1984, 1988), this manner of education first developed at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the seventeenth century for the promotion of neoclassical aesthetic values, and it has continued ever since to be used, even by the Bauhaus in Germany in the early twentieth century after function had replaced form as the primary architectural value. The principal value of the design studio for Schön is that it properly emphasizes creativity for designers, instead of analysis and criticism, as preferred by the “technical rationality” of university culture as a whole. The university has responded by criticizing the design studio for being too subjective and therefore isolated within the academic world. In recent years the design studio has also been criticized for being elitist by focusing too much on aesthetic concerns, instead of promoting cultural sensitivity to social justice and environmental sustainability. Other critics complain that the design studio still relies on paper and hand drawings too much, instead of committing fully to ICTs and the virtual reality (VR) of cyberspace. Such criticisms, however, tend to be overstated, and the design studio is likely to continue in its present form for some time to come, because that is where most designing students learn the culture of design and develop a lifelong identification with their instructors and their fellow students.


1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Calabrese

Educational administration programs are in desperate need of change. However, substantive change is unlikely given the rigidity of the university culture and its dysfunctional nature. The demand to change American universities has existed for over a century with little effect. However, faculty resistance, wrapped in a rigid culture, rejects competing ideologies. A new paradigm is needed if university preparation of school administrators is to be credible. One alternative paradigm is based on the relationship between the teacher and learner. In this paradigm, leadership is discovered rather than taught. It is a personal journey for the faculty member and student. The relationship between the teacher and student creates an opportunity for the discovery of different structures grounded in existential theory.


2011 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 234-238
Author(s):  
Jia Li ◽  
Guo Sheng Chen ◽  
Xin Luo

Comprehensive evaluation of university’s cultural soft power for manufacturing engineering made us seen the soft power of the university culture development in-depth understanding. This article used fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to establish the university’s cultural soft power evaluation model, did a comprehensive evaluation to University’s cultural soft power based on four core aspect: the decisive soft power, key soft power, basic soft strength.


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