Academic Medicine—The Elephant in the Room

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Holden Thorp ◽  
Buck Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Academic Medicine ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vannevar Bush ◽  
Influential Paper ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Funding Research ◽  
Endless Frontier

The war on disease has been a primary animating purpose of higher education and the partnership with the public ever since Vannevar Bush wrote the influential paper, Science: The Endless Frontier, that led to the formation of the federal funding research enterprise. The academic medicine function of universities is politically popular and often seen as separate from the ideas that obtain in undergraduate education. Nonetheless, it is important for presidents and trustees to see the relationship closely. The governance of academic medicine is complex and can involve interlocking lay boards and tricky relationships with the board, chancellor or president, and provost.

1. The Neoliberal Logic of Service-Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Snider Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

<?page nr="1"?>Abstract This article investigates the ways in which service-learning manifests within our neoliberal clime, suggesting that service-learning amounts to a foil for neoliberalism, allowing neoliberal political and economic changes while masking their damaging effects. Neoliberalism shifts the relationship between the public and the private, structures higher education, and promotes a façade of community-based university partnerships while facilitating a pervasive regime of control. This article demonstrates that service-learning amounts to an enigma of neoliberalism, making possible the privatization of the public and the individualizing of social problems while masking evidence of market-based societal control. Neoliberal service-learning distances service from teaching and learning, allows market forces to shape university-community partnerships, and privatizes the public through dispossession by accumulation.

Faculty Are Not Employees

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Holden Thorp ◽  
Buck Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Tenured Faculty ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The role of faculty forms the heart of the university in terms of its scholarship, patient care, and teaching. It is important that the university and the faculty rededicate themselves to outstanding teaching; the erosion of teaching by tenured faculty is contributing to the strain in the relationship with the public. Tenure, academic freedom, and shared governance are all indispensable concepts in the functioning of a great university that are mysterious to those outside the academy. Communicating the importance of these concepts is a critical need for higher education.

scholarly journals Islamophobia in education: perceptions on the use of veil/niqab in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Hanif Cahyo Adi Kistoro ◽  
Badrun Kartowagiran ◽  
Eva Latipah ◽  
Ngainun Naim ◽  
Himawan Putranta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

The phenomenon of the development of the veil in Indonesia, especially among higher education has become a concern lately. This is due to the view of the public about the relationship between the use of the veil with the influence of certain ideologies. This research aims to determine the reasons and motivations for the use of the veil among female students, perceptions received in the surrounding environment, and obstacles encountered. This research uses a phenomenological approach as part of qualitative research. Participants in this research were 12 female students from private universities in Yogyakarta. The method of in-depth interviews using interview guide instruments becomes a technique in collecting data. Data analysis using semantic reduction is done by identifying important statements from the results of the interview, determining the theme of the discussion, and describing the significance of the whole experience of veiled students. The results showed that there were five main themes in the use of the veil in higher education, namely the average age of female students who used veil, motivation and reasons for using a veil, perceptions from within themselves and their environment, constraints encountered, and consistency in wearing a veil. Some of the findings obtained are certainly new references that need to be further developed. Therefore, knowledge about Islamophobia especially the perception of the phenomenon of the veil is important for educational institutions in determining policy and for the community to be a reference in dealing with the phenomenon.

scholarly journals Quality of higher education and incidence of learning styles

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
Nuri Mohamad M. Otman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
The Relationship

This study presents a review of the Quality of Higher Education through the incidence of learning styles. The quality is important l element the private sector, as well as for the public sector since it evaluates services, supply and working conditions, and the relationship with the environment where they carry out their activities. Therefore, higher education organizations cannot be exempt from the importance of quality. However, there are several factors that affect the quality of education, being one of the most important learning styles. Generally, from this background, the main objective of this study to define the role and quality concepts of higher education the analysis of the key aspects of quality assurance and its relationship with student learning styles, by briefly reviewing the literature in this regard that allows for defining this relationship and its importance. The results showed through these studies that there is no single style of learning, and that this must be flexible within the classroom to improve the educational experience of students, but that this cannot lead to the choice of a single style considered as suitable.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Holden Thorp ◽  
Buck Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

American higher education is envied around the world and owes its success to an extraordinary partnership with the federal government. Despite this, there is significant political strain in the relationship between the public and higher education. This is due in part to a number of misunderstandings about who goes to college and how much they pay.

scholarly journals The Death of the Public Community College

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
William E. Piland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internal Forces ◽  
Governmental Institutions

<p>Community colleges have been in existence for over 100 years in the United States. They began by offering the first two years of undergraduate education for students in local communities. Over the decades they evolved into comprehensive institutions of higher education with a multi-faceted mission. Today, in an era of accountability and mistrust of governmental institutions, they are under siege. There are external and internal forces that are causing their troubles. Perhaps, the unthinkable could happen and they might cease to exist if bold steps aren’t taken to save them. There appears to be little time to waste.</p>

scholarly journals The influence of public procurement policies on the implementation of procurement best practices in South African universities

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnie Dlamini ◽  
Intaher M. Ambe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
South African ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Development ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between public procurement policies and procurement best practices (PBPs) in higher education institutions is inevitable. Higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa play a crucial role in contributing to the economic, social and environmental development of the country. Hence the implementation of PBPs has a key role in creating a competitive advantage for higher education. The purpose of this article is to determine the influence of public procurement policies on the implementation of PBPs in the public HEIs in South Africa. The article employs a theoretical review of related literature on public procurement and PBPs. The article articulates that public procurement policies influence the implementation of PBPs in public HEIs in South Africa.

scholarly journals Structural Change in Higher Education: Implications for Research

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
David B. Schweikhardt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research System ◽  
Food Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Change In Higher Education ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Agricultural Research System ◽  
Funding Research

The political and economic environment in which agricultural research is conducted is changing. The methods of funding research are changing, food markets are international in scope, and the public is demanding greater accountability in higher education. These trends are creating new tensions within the agricultural research system, and the heightening of these tensions requires that a new equilibrium be established between the system's public mission and the competing public demands on the system (Danbom). This new equilibrium will determine the structure and performance of the agricultural research system in the coming decade.

Challenging the "Apartheids" of Knowledge in Higher Education through Social Innovation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Reflections

In order to understand the relationship between social innovation and the reimagining of the knowledge economy necessary to reorient higher education most fully towards the public good, we must draw from the experiences of those working on the front lines of change. This collection represents diverse voices and disciplines, drawing together the critical reflections of academics, students and community partners from across South Africa. The book seeks to bring together theoretical and practical lessons about how research methods can be used in socially innovative ways to challenge the ‘apartheids’ of knowledge in higher education and to promote the democratisation of the knowledge economy.

scholarly journals Higher Education Pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-145
Author(s):  
Kanika Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Good ◽  
South African ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
The Public

A book review of Higher Education Pathways: South African Undergraduate Education and the Public Good Edited by Paul Ashwin and Jennifer M. Case. 

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