The Future Is in the Past: How Land-Grab Universities Can Shape the Future of Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Stewart-Ambo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Here to Stay

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-174
Author(s):  
Lenora M. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Contingent Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Contingent faculty are an important part of the workforce in higher education because they are mainly tasked with teaching entry-level undergraduate courses. However, there is not much knowledge regarding their rise to majority faculty appointments in U.S. colleges and universities, the constitution of this new faculty, the past and present issues they face regularly, or what the future holds for them. This chapter will review the literature about the historical growth of non-tenure-track hiring in U.S. colleges and universities, provide a description of the composition of this faculty, and outline specific issues they deal with while addressing opportunities advancement as well as their overall satisfaction with their work conditions.

scholarly journals Strategy and narrative in higher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannie Holstein ◽  
Ken Starkey ◽  
Mike Wright
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Strategy Formation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
The Uk

In this article, we apply the idea of narrative to strategy and to the development of strategy in the higher education context. We explore how strategy is formed as an intertextual narrative in a comparative study of higher education in the UK. Existing research suggests that competition between narratives, such as that in higher education, should be problematic in strategy terms. We show that this is not necessarily the case. Unlike in other settings where new strategy narratives tend to drive out previous narratives, in higher education it is the on-going interaction between historical and new narratives that gives the content of strategy its essential voice. We show how apparently competing narratives are accommodated though appeals to emotion and values. The maintenance of strategic direction requires hope and a synthesis of societal values that maintains access to the past, the future, and multiple narrators. This approach helps us understand how universities perform the complex task of adapting the strengths of the university’s past to the challenges of external policy developments in strategy formation.

Between the Silence of the Past and the Future

Światowit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reconstruction Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Research

Archaeomusicological research currently con- ducted at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, institutionalised thanks to the financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant NPRH), gave the opportunity to develop a wider field of research. The project includes not only the documentation of musical instruments but first and foremost experimental studies. We started with completely new research on idiophones (e.g. on the sounds of lithophones and rattles), returned to previously closed topics (e.g. gusli from Opole), and developed reconstruction methods using state-of-the-art technology (e.g. the reconstruction of flutes).

A History of U.S. Higher Education in Accounting, Part I: Situating Accounting within the Academy

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Van Wyhe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Public Accounting ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

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.

scholarly journals Position Description Analysis: A Method for Describing Academic Roles and Functions

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
K. Edward Renner ◽  
Ronald J. Skibbens
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Year 2000

Similar to the 1960s, higher education is once again in a period of rapid social chance in which new demands and expectations are being made on colleges and universities. This time, however, new money is not available for the transition to be achieved though additional growth. In this paper, the methodology of Position Description Analysis is presented using Dalhousie University as a case study. Position Description Analysis is a tool for assessing the discrepancy between the status quo and the specializations needed for colleges and universities to meet the new demands and expectations which are being made of them. It is concluded that there is a need for dramatic realignement of fields of specialization in order to shift from the emphases of the past to those of the future. However, because the faculty higher in the 1960s are now tenure, but no due to retire until after the year 2000, higher education must find internal strategies for chance or face externally imposed solution to their current lack of flexibility.

scholarly journals Levelling the playing field: the future of the FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (10) ◽  
pp. 344-345
Author(s):  
B Caesar ◽  
L David
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Formal Assessment ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Orthopaedic Trainee ◽  
Shed Light

The processes of formal assessment and examination in the UK have become increasingly convoluted over the past few years, whether at school, in higher education, or as a senior orthopaedic trainee sitting the ISB examination at fellowship level in trauma and orthopaedics. Although rationalising the ever-expanding methods of assessment inflicted upon medical students and postgraduate doctors by various government departments is not within our remit, we can endeavour to shed light on the current issues surrounding the FRCS (Tr & Orth) examination.

Lessons for Assistance to Iraqi Libraries Derived from Similar Efforts to Assist Bosnian Libraries after the 1992-1996 War

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Spurr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successes And Failures

The building of a library is a fundamental gesture of hope, if not in the perfectibility of humankind, at least in its mission to affirm and make accessible the legacy of scholars, researchers and creative minds of the past and present and the capacity of that legacy to guide and inspire the future, and thus to advance the prospects of all individuals and society as a whole. No serious education – particularly higher education – is possible without adequate libraries. Those who do not have such access for whatever reason are condemned to the most limited purchase on the possibilities the world has to offer. This essay addresses the fate of Bosnian libraries, efforts to ameliorate their condition, successes and failures in that regard, and reflections upon the state of similar institutions in Iraq and current efforts to address their plight, following a few thoughts concerning libraries and politics.

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