The Associate Vice Provost in the Gray Flannel Suit: Administrative Labor and the Corporate University

This paper explores the complexity of ‘teaching excellence’ (Kreber, 2002) in contemporary higher education. It describes how a university academic, who has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, questions if they really are an ‘excellent teacher’ and if their student-centered philosophy is sustainable. An analysis of data related to teaching and learning effectiveness over a seven year period highlights a significant weakness in how the academic approached the teaching of undergraduate students. This had a subsequent negative effect on several levels. The paper concludes by describing the merits of academics ‘centering’ themselves between the corporate university and the needs of students in striving for ‘teaching excellence’.

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FAKTOR-FAKTOR KUNCI KESUKSESAN IMPLEMENTASI CORPORATE UNIVERSITY DALAM RANGKA TRANSFORMASI BADAN PENDIDIKAN DAN PELATIHAN KEUANGAN

Jurnal Aplikasi Bisnis dan Manajemen ◽

10.17358/jabm.5.3.466 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Agung Yuniarto ◽

Aida Vitayala Hubeis ◽

Anggraini Sukmawati

Keyword(s):

Corporate University

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Milestone Awal BPSDM Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan Menuju Corporate University

Jurnal Pendidikan Indonesia ◽

10.36418/japendi.v2i2.105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 194-201

Author(s):

Budiman Tahir

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Corporate University ◽

Self Assessment

Penelitian bertujuan mengeksplor perkembangan pemikiran tentang Corporate University melalui metode kulitatif dengan pendekatan content-analysis. Hasil peninjauan menunjukkan bahwa eksistensi Corporate University semakin diakui dapat meningkatkan keunggulan kompetitif suatu organisasi seperti Badan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia (BPSDM) atau Badan Diklat lain. Lembaga tersebut hingga beberapa tahun kedepannya mempunyai tantangan yang sangat kompleks, akibat dari muncul berbagai permasalahan. Oleh karena itu, Corporate University menjadi sebuah keniscayaan. Badan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia (BPSDM) Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan menetapkan milestone awal dengan melakukan pembenahan dan mengkritisi diri sendiri (self assessment) tentang apa yang telah dimiliki, apa yang belum, dan apa yang harus dilakukan untuk mencapainya. Beberapa aspek milestone awal perlu ditindaklanjuti untuk menuju Corporate University.

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The academic precariat post-COVID-19

10.31235/osf.io/acu4n ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aidan Cornelius-Bell ◽

Piper A. Bell

Keyword(s):

Doctoral Students ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Research Literature ◽

Corporate University ◽

Late Capitalism ◽

Sharp Rise ◽

Doctoral Studies ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Academic Employment ◽

The Relationship

The nature of work has changed, in accelerated late-capitalism and as a result of the COVID-19 global health crisis. For academics, casualised and precarious, the sweeping institutional changes of contemporary neoliberal universities, the sharp rise in managerialism, and the political power plays of universities have created further untenable spaces for work and study. In this article we explore the relationship between doctoral studies, precarious academic employment, the pandemic, and the disproportionate effects of the changes in higher education on women. Through exploration of personal experience, as precarious academic workers, researchers, and doctoral students, we provide parallels to research literature across pandemic and post-COVID literature. We provide practical suggestions for the corporate university, to rebuild its catastrophically collapsing systems, and re-centre doctoral students in mentorship as the new future of universities in Australia, and around the world.

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Designing the pedagogical design of the educational environment of the university

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture ◽

10.30725/2619-0303-2021-1-156-162 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 156-162

Author(s):

Elena V. Shirinkina ◽

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Educational Process ◽

Practical Significance ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

International Studies ◽

Corporate University ◽

Pedagogical Design ◽

Integral Element ◽

The University

The relevance of the research is due to the fact that the educational environment of the university is an integral element of the educational process, which is constantly changing, even at a fairly high speed. In this regard, pedagogical design in such conditions concerns not only educational programs, but also the environment itself. The author considers a new category «pedagogical design», defines how the pedagogical designer differs from the methodologist or methodologist; Why is a pedagogical design design mechanism needed? The empirical basis of the study was the data of international studies by Deloitte «Digital Education Survey», Goldman, EFMD, Metaari, Technavio, as well as data from domestic studies by HR-academy and the Sberbank Corporate University. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author presents a mechanism for designing the pedagogical design of the educational environment of the university, based on obtaining, comprehending, checking one’s own experience and analyzing best practices. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the results obtained will allow educational institutions to structure their work in such a way as to calmly relate to changes, responding to requests from the labor market, while making changes made the training solution the most effective.

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Acting, Singing, Dancing, and So Forth: Theatre (Research) in the University

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s0040557404000237 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 263-269

Author(s):

W. B. Worthen

Keyword(s):

Life Forms ◽

Genetically Engineered ◽

Corporate University ◽

Martha Graham ◽

Global Epidemic ◽

Commodity Culture ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

The Arts ◽

Oryx And Crake ◽

The University

About midway through Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel Oryx and Crake, the protagonist Jimmy (later known as Snowman, survivor of a genetically engineered global epidemic induced by his childhood friend, Crake) leaves home for the university, or in this case for the Martha Graham Academy. In a culture driven by the collusion of technology and capital it's not surprising that the best students are sent to lavish technical universities (Crake attends the Watson–Crick Institute), while arts and humanities students listlessly rusticate at Martha Graham, learning the pointless yet “vital arts” of “acting, singing, dancing, and so forth” and how to deploy them in the service of commodity culture (Jimmy's skill with language leads him to major in Applied Rhetoric, eventually writing advertising copy for Crake's new life forms). Like much else in Oryx and Crake, Atwood's vision jibes chillingly enough with the rhetoric of today's corporate university: compared to jet propulsion, cancer research, or even the battle of Appomattox (on my campus, history is a social science), the arts and humanities can be made to seem “like studying Latin, or book binding: pleasant to contemplate in its way, but no longer central to anything” (187).

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