scholarly journals Alma mater, ¡Talithá kum!

2021 ◽  
pp. 415-436
Author(s):  
Manuel Villegas Rodríguez

Resumen: La Universidad, la Alma Mater, como cualquier otra entidad, en este caso dedicada a la Enseñanza Superior, tiene sus compromisos ante sí misma, ante la Sociedad en la que se encuentra, y ante la Comunidad de Estudiantes. No solo mientras los alumnos asisten a sus aulas, sino también, cuando ya preparados (o más bien titulados), ejercen su personal y peculiar actividad en la Sociedad. Con las evidentes diferencias, a causa del tiempo transcurrido cuando san Agustín ejerció su enseñanza, convendría que una Universidad (real o ficticia), tuviera en cuenta e imitara la forma y la esencia del Magisterio Agustiniano.Abstratct: The University, the Alma Mater, like any other entity, in this case dedicated to Higher Education, has its commitments before itself, before the Society in which it is located, and before the Student Community. Not only while the students attend their classrooms, but also, when already prepared (or rather graduates), they carry out their personal and peculiar activity in the Society. With the obvious differences, because of the time that passed when Saint Augustine taught, it would be convenient for a University (real or fictitious) to take into account and imitate the form and essence of the Augustinian Magisterium.Palabras clave: Obras de San Agustín. Historia de las Universidades. Legislación y Ley positiva. Ciencia y Sabiduría. Democracia. Keywords: Works of Saint Augustine. History of the Universities. Legislation and Positive Law. Science and Wisdom. Democracy 

NASPA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Herdlein

The scholarship of student affairs has neglected to carefully review its contextual past and, in the process, failed to fully integrate historical research into practice. The story of Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos and the history of the Dean of Women’s Program at the University of Pittsburgh,1919–41, helps us to reflect on the true reality of our work in higher education. Although seemingly a time in the distant past, Thyrsa Amos embodied the spirit of student personnel administration that shines ever so bright to thisd ay. The purpose of this research is to provide some of thatcontext and remind us of the values that serve as foundations of the profession.


Author(s):  
Brianne H. Roos ◽  
Carey C. Borkoski

Purpose The purpose of this review article is to examine the well-being of faculty in higher education. Success in academia depends on productivity in research, teaching, and service to the university, and the workload model that excludes attention to the welfare of faculty members themselves contributes to stress and burnout. Importantly, student success and well-being is influenced largely by their faculty members, whose ability to inspire and lead depends on their own well-being. This review article underscores the importance of attending to the well-being of the people behind the productivity in higher education. Method This study is a narrative review of the literature about faculty well-being in higher education. The history of well-being in the workplace and academia, concepts of stress and well-being in higher education faculty, and evidence-based strategies to promote and cultivate faculty well-being were explored in the literature using electronic sources. Conclusions Faculty feel overburdened and pressured to work constantly to meet the demands of academia, and they strive for work–life balance. Faculty report stress and burnout related to excessively high expectations, financial pressures to obtain research funding, limited time to manage their workload, and a belief that individual progress is never sufficient. Faculty well-being is important for the individual and in support of scholarship and student outcomes. This article concludes with strategies to improve faculty well-being that incorporate an intentional focus on faculty members themselves, prioritize a community of well-being, and implement continuous high-quality professional learning.


2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-505
Author(s):  
David S. Busch

In the early 1960s, Peace Corps staff turned to American colleges and universities to prepare young Americans for volunteer service abroad. In doing so, the agency applied the university's modernist conceptions of citizenship education to volunteer training. The training staff and volunteers quickly discovered, however, that prevailing methods of education in the university were ineffective for community-development work abroad. As a result, the agency evolved its own pedagogical practices and helped shape early ideas of service learning in American higher education. The Peace Corps staff and supporters nonetheless maintained the assumptions of development and modernist citizenship, setting limits on the broader visions of education emerging out of international volunteerism in the 1960s. The history of the Peace Corps training in the 1960s and the agency's efforts to rethink training approaches offer a window onto the underlying tensions of citizenship education in the modern university.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Peters

This special issue focused on ‘Digital Media and Contested Visions of Education’ provides an opportunity to examine the tendency to hypothesise a rupture in the history of the university. It does so by contrasting the traditional Humboldtian ideals of the university with a neoliberal marketised version and in order to ask questions concerning evaluations of the quality of higher education within a knowledge economy. Theorising the rupture has led to a variety of different accounts most of which start from an approach in political economy and differ according to how theorists picture this change in capitalism. Roughly speaking the question of whether to see the political economy of using social media in higher education from a state perspective or a network perspective is a critical issue. A state-centric approach is predisposed towards a reading that is based on a critical realist approach of Marxist political economy (Jessop 1993). By contrast an approach that decentres the state and focuses on global networked finance capitalism ironically grows out of a military-university research network created by the U.S. government. Arguably, networks, not states, now constitute the organising global structure (Castells 2009) and while state-centric theory with hierarchical structures are still significant, relational, selforganising and flexible market networks have become the new unit of analysis for understanding the circuits of global capital (Peters 2014; Peters 2009). However, states still have a role to play in norming the networks or providing the governing framework in international law.


2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM WHYTE

ABSTRACTBetween 1957 and 1977 the University of Leeds engaged in a massive programme of rebuilding. Employing the architects Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon, Leeds transformed itself – becoming, in the words of one commentator, ‘Our first contemporary urban university’. Previously ignored by historians, this development in the history of the university illustrates a number of important themes. In the first place, it exemplifies the significance of architecture in defining higher education. Secondly – and more particularly – it shows how both academics and architects hoped to use Brutalist architecture to express the modernity of the University of Leeds. Thus the decision to employ avant-garde designers in the late 1950s and the resolution to dismiss them twenty years later both came from the same modernizing impulse. Thirdly, it shows how personal connection secured architectural patronage in this period. The Development Plan also highlights the way in which architects of the British modern movement used universities as laboratories in which to experiment with ideas about community and proper urban design. The modernist moment at Leeds, then, can be seen as representative of wider trends in British building, not least because it lasted for such a short period of time.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Van Wyhe

Where we have been can tell us a great deal about where we are going. If we wish to direct the future, then understanding the past can help us see how much we actually influence that direction. Ignorance of the past, on the other hand, allows unrealistic expectations and creates unnecessary frustration. The history of accounting higher education in the United States is most informative for anyone who wants to influence the future direction of our profession. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the history of accounting higher education in the U.S., from its beginnings to its settled position in the university. This historical overview informs us that the profession of public accounting had everything to do with establishing and growing accounting education. Around the time of the Second World War, however, forces were set in motion that would try to pull accounting education from the grasp of public accounting. The belittling of public accounting, first in the name of the new management accounting and then by the Foundation Reports, combined with public accounting leaders' ongoing desire for a five-year education requirement above all other educational reforms, resulted in accounting higher education's inability to single-mindedly identify its goals and work toward them.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Frijhoff

Abstract: The University history of the Low Countries is largely tributary of the different fate of the two halves of that region. In the South (present-day Belgium), in fact a unitary state from the 16th century onwards, the University of Louvain, initially founded for the whole Low Countries, was long the only institution of higher education. It was temporarily joined by that of Douai (later incorporated into France). In the North (the present-day Netherlands), universities and other institutions of higher education were only founded from the independence in the late 16th century onwards, but then in huge numbers, due to the confederal character of the Dutch Republic. In the revolutionary and Napoleonic era, the whole university landscape was thoroughly altered, and most of the institutions in the North suppressed. After 1815, new universities were founded on the same footing in both countries, then again temporarily united. Although the Netherlands and Belgium went their own way ever since their separation in 1830, both countries show a similar institutional evolution, in  spite of the linguistic problems in the South. This is reflected in the cooperation between scholars on university history of the whole Low Countries region. In this article, I first sketch briefly the political evolution of the Low Countries and that of the university landscape and its institutional provisions, compulsory for a good comprehension of the university historiography. After a survey of the process of institutionalisation of university history in the European context ever since the 1980s, the (bi-)national associations and the renewal of the focus on the social dimension of university history and the history of science are briefly discussed. Throughout the article, the most important studies and memorial volumes of the last decades are quoted.Resumen: La historia de la Universidad de los Países Bajos es en buena medida heredera del destino diverso de cada una de las dos mitades de la región. En el Sur (actualmente Bélgica), de hecho, un estado unitario desde el siglo XVI en adelante, la Universidad de Lovaina, fundada inicialmente para el conjunto de los Países Bajos, fue durante mucho tiempo la única institución de educación superior. Se unió temporalmente por ello a Douai (más tarde incorporado en Francia). En el Norte (Holanda hoy en día), universidades y otras instituciones de educación superior sólo se fundaron a partir de la independencia, a finales del siglo XVI en adelante, cuando crecerían exponencialmente, debido al carácter confederal de la República Holandesa. En la era revolucionaria y napoleónica, todo el panorama universitario quedó alterado y la mayoría de las instituciones del Norte  suprimidas. Después de 1815, se fundaron nuevas universidades en el mismo nivel en ambos países, que otra vez quedarían temporalmente unidos. Aunque los Países Bajos y Bélgica siguieron sus propios caminos desde su separación en 1830, ambos países muestran una evolución institucional similar, a pesar de los problemas lingüísticos en el Sur. Esto se refleja en la cooperación entre los estudiosos de la historia de la universidad de los Países Bajos en toda la región. En este artículo, primero presento un breve esquema de la evolución política de los Países Bajos y de la universidad y sus disposiciones institucionales, algo obligatorio para una buena comprensión de la historiografía universitaria. Después de un estudio del proceso de institucionalización de la historia universitaria en el contexto europeo desde la década de 1980, las asociaciones (bi)nacionales y la renovación de la atención a la dimensión social de la historia universitaria y la historia de la ciencia se discutirán brevemente. A lo largo del artículo, se darán cita también los estudios más importantes y volúmenes conmemorativos aparecidos en las últimas décadas.Keywords: historiography, Low Countries, universities, colleges, Latin schools.Palabras clave: historiografía, Países Bajos, universidades, colegios, escuelas latinas.


Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Mª Carmen Campos Mesa ◽  
Santiago Romero Granados ◽  
Gloria González Campos

La implantación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, dentro de una nueva cultura de la calidad en la enseñanza superior, nos hace plantearnos sobre qué aspectos son los que dan calidad a la misma. Entre los factores de calidad de la enseñanza superior se encuentran, la orientación en las Universidades y el análisis de la inserción laboral de los egresados. En el texto presentamos una investigación llevada a cabo a seis promociones de egresados de Magisterio especialistas en Educación Física en la Universidad de Sevilla (N=292). A partir de los datos obtenidos observamos que un 95% de la población encuestada no pide orientación laboral o profesional durante la carrera y que un 63% encuentra un primer trabajo relacionado con el mundo de la actividad física y el deporte, mientras que un 37% su trabajo está relacionado con otros temas. Por tanto, concluimos que la mayoría de los egresados de Magisterio especialistas en Educación Física no reciben orientación para su inserción laboral por lo que no todos consiguen empleos relacionados con el mundo de la actividad física y el deporte.Palabra clave: Orientación profesional, tránsito hacia la vida activa, egresados y Educación Física.Abstract: The introduction of the European Higher Education Area in a new culture of quality in Higher Education, makes us ask about the aspects that give quality to it. Among the quality factors in Higher Education we can find: University guidance and analysis of the graduate´s incorporation into the labour world. In this article we present the research we did in conducted at the six classes of graduates of Teaching in Physical Education from the University of Seville (N = 292). From the data we obteined, we can observe that 95% of the surveyed population does not ask for work or professional guidance during their degree and 63% of the surveyed population find their first job connected with the world of sport and physical activity, while 37% of this population has a work connected with other topics. Thus, we can conclude that most graduates of Teaching in Physical Education do not receive guidance for their incorporation into the labour world. This is why no everygraduate can get a job connected with the world of sport and physical activity.Key words: Career guidance, transition to working life, graduates and Physical Education.


Author(s):  
V.S. Akimova ◽  
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S.S. Atlasova ◽  
K.E. Ershova

Japan is a developing country but is getting diffi cult to hold in leadership 21st century. The domestic lack of raw materials fosters the government to count on competitive power of science and the higher education system. Japanese system of higher education must become demanded in the world. The history of Hokkaido University, the oldest institution in the country and is being modernized at present, is reviewed. It is noted that various mid-term and long-term measures have been developed and implemented. The university partakes in diff erent activities to raise the university international rating.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Fernando Roque Fernandes

As universidades têm se constituído espaços de estratégias de afirmação, interação e representação do protagonismo indígena no Brasil. O acesso de indígenas ao ensino superior tem possibilitado a ampliação de debates relacionados às causas indígenas. Pesquisadores e estudantes de diferentes áreas de conhecimento têm desenvolvido trabalhos no âmbito do Ensino Superior, evidenciando a legitimidade e atualidade dos Movimentos Indígenas nas relações que estabelecem com a Formação Superior. Tais fenômenos etnicossociais, os quais temos denominado de etnogêneses, decorrem de longos processos de emergência, valorização e reconhecimento da diversidade étnica no país. Diante do ingresso cada vez maior de indígenas nas instituições de educação superior no Brasil, consideramos oportuno desenvolver algumas reflexões sobre a questão. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste texto é rascunhar algumas considerações sobre o acesso de sujeitos indígenas nas universidades como estratégia de interação com a comunidade envolvente, constituindo-se como oportunidade consistente de articulações necessárias ao fortalecimento dos movimentos indígenas. Para tanto, apresentamos algumas questões que nos permitam refletir sobre os desafios enfrentados pelos acadêmicos indígenas na atualidade.Palavras-chave: Protagonismo indígena contemporâneo. Movimentos indígenas. Ensino Superior.Indigenous movements and the university space: alternatives to indigenous protagonism in the Brazilian AmazonABSTRACTUniversities have been constituted as spaces of affirmation strategy, interaction and representation of the indigenous protagonism in Brazil. The access of indigenous people to higher education has made possible an expansion of debates related to indigenous causes. Researchers and students from different areas of knowledge have developed works in the context of higher education that evidence a legitimacy and an update of the Indigenous Movements in the relations with the creation of a Superior Formation. Ethnogenesis phenomena come from long processes of emergence, appreciation and recognition of ethnic diversity in the country. Faced with the growing number of indigenous people in higher education institutions, in Brazil, considerate about the problem. Our objective is to point out some considerations for thinking about the access of indigenous subjects to the university as a strategy of interaction with a surrounding community, constituting it as a consistent opportunity of articulations for the strengthening of indigenous movements in Contemporary Brazil. Therefore, we present some questions that allow us to reflect on the challenges faced by indigenous academics.Keywords: Indigenous movements. Higher education. Ethnogenesis.Movimientos indígenas y el espacio universitario: alternativas al protagonismo indígena en la Amazonia brasileñaRESUMENLas universidades se han constituido en espacios de estrategia de afirmación, interacción y representación del protagonismo indígena en Brasil. El acceso de indígenas a la enseñanza superior ha posibilitado una ampliación de debates relacionados con las causas indígenas. Investigadores y estudiantes de diferentes áreas de conocimiento son desarrollados trabajos sin enseñanza de enseñanza Enseñanza superior que evidencian una legitimidad y una actualización de los Movimientos Indígenas en las relaciones con la creación de una Formación Superior. Fenómenos de etnogénesis provienen de largos procesos de emergencia, valorización y reconocimiento de la diversidad étnica en el país. Ante el ingreso cada vez mayor de indígenas en las instituciones de educación superior, no Brasil, consideraciones sobre el problema. Nuestro objetivo es apuntar algunas consideraciones para pensar el acceso de sujetos indígenas en la universidad como estrategia de interacción con una comunidad envolvente, constituyéndose como una oportunidad consistente de articulaciones para el fortalecimiento de los movimientos indígenas en el Brasil contemporáneo. Para ello, presentamos algunas cuestiones que nos permitan reflexionar sobre los desafíos enfrentados por los académicos indígenas.Palabras clave: Movimientos indígenas. Enseñanza Superior. Etnogénesis.


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