The Quality-Profit Assumption

International Higher Education ◽

10.6017/ihe.2013.71.6081 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 12-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kevin Kinser

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Academic Program ◽

Program Quality ◽

Profit Motive ◽

Profit Status ◽

Quality In Higher Education ◽

Service Strategies

The profit motive is typically linked to lower quality in higher education. But there are several routes to profitability that do not presume a decline in quality, but rather take advantage of price and service strategies that generate revenue without significant impact on the academic program. Quality, therefore, is not determined by the profit status of the institution.

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Evaluating Program Quality in Higher Education

Program Evaluation in Language Education ◽

10.1057/9780230511224_11 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 150-160

Author(s):

Richard Kiely ◽

Pauline Rea-Dickins

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Program Quality ◽

Quality In Higher Education

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Classification of University Departments of Industrial Engineering in Colombia: A DEA Application without Explicit Inputs

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University ◽

10.35741/issn.0258-2724.56.2.38 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 469-480

Author(s):

Adel Mendoza-Mendoza ◽

Delimiro Visbal-Cadavid ◽

Enrique De La Hoz-Domínguez

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Academic Program ◽

Industrial Engineering ◽

State Control ◽

Homogeneous Groups ◽

Engineering Programs ◽

University Departments ◽

Quality In Higher Education ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Financing Infrastructure

The article describes the use and applicability of Data Envelopment Analysis without Explicit Input (DEA-WEI) to evaluate the performance in SaberPRO tests of 82 industrial engineering programs in Colombia during 2016-2018. The results obtained can be used as an instrument to strengthen the quality assurance processes in higher education. As a result of applying the DEA-WEI model, the universities could be classified into five homogeneous groups, each with different characteristics. This grouping can be used as a strategic tool for the higher education institutions since it was possible to identify the other institutions' reference universities. In the current environment, evaluating a university's academic program's performance and its comparison with other universities is an essential issue for students, state control agencies, and universities to improve their indicators for accreditation processes. This classification can serve as a comparative measure of the educational quality offered by each university. In some countries, these classification results serve as a reference for allocating resources by the State for financing infrastructure and research projects. In Colombia, one of the indicators of quality in higher education is the standardized tests called SaberPRO, taken by all students in the last year of any academic program.

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Developing Alternative Measures for Service Quality in Higher Education: Empirical Evidence from the School of Physical Education and Sports Sciences

Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-10864-3_102 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 185-185

Author(s):

Suleyman M. Yildiz ◽

Ali Kara

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Physical Education ◽

Service Quality ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Alternative Measures ◽

Quality In Higher Education ◽

Sports Sciences

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Accreditation and Certification: Do They Improve Hospital Financial and Quality Performance?

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9070887 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 887

Author(s):

Matthew Brooks ◽

Brad M. Beauvais ◽

Clemens Scott Kruse ◽

Lawrence Fulton ◽

Michael Mileski ◽

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Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Academic Program ◽

Future Research ◽

Graduate Degree ◽

Healthcare Administration ◽

Professional Certification ◽

The Impact

The relationship between healthcare organizational accreditation and their leaders’ professional certification in healthcare management is of specific interest to institutions of higher education and individuals in the healthcare management field. Since academic program accreditation is one piece of evidence of high-quality education, and since professional certification is an attestation to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of those who are certified, we expect alumni who graduated from accredited programs and obtained professional certification to have a positive impact on the organizations that they lead, compared with alumni who did not graduate from accredited programs and who did not obtain professional certification. The authors’ analysis examined the impact of hiring graduates from higher education programs that held external accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). Graduates’ affiliation with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) professional healthcare leadership organization was also assessed as an independent variable. Study outcomes focused on these graduates’ respective healthcare organization’s performance measures (cost, quality, and access) to assess the researchers’ inquiry into the perceived value of a CAHME-accredited graduate degree in healthcare administration and a professional ACHE affiliation. The results from this study found no effect of CAHME accreditation or ACHE affiliation on healthcare organization performance outcomes. The study findings support the need for future research surrounding healthcare administration professional graduate degree program characteristics and leader development affiliations, as perceived by various industry stakeholders.

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