Download or read book University Rationalization Study written by Ghana. University Rationalization Committee and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Rationalization Study written by Ghana. University Rationalization Committee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Presentation to the Commission to Study the Rationalization of University Research written by University of Winnipeg. Institute of Urban Studies and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Rationalisation Study Final report written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Allure of Order written by Jal Mehta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. Over and over again, outsiders have been fascinated by the promise of scientific management and have attempted to apply principles of rational administration from above. What we want, Mehta argues, is the opposite approach which characterizes top-performing educational nations: attract strong candidates into teaching, develop relevant and usable knowledge, train teachers extensively in that knowledge, and support these efforts through a strong welfare state.
Download or read book Quest for Optimum written by L. P. Bonneau and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universities as Agencies written by Tom Christensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and international markets of students, researchers and research projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive data from US universities to show how their internal organization structure is developing over time, related to three types of units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and roles.
Download or read book Wannabe U written by Gaye Tuchman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of observation at a large state university, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such universities wander from job to job and reductively view the students there as future workers in nee...
Download or read book The McDonaldization of Higher Education written by Dennis Hayes and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where not so long ago professors "owned" the tools of scholarship, controlled the labor process, and certified the quality of our product, the process of McDonaldization has torn this relation asunder. Rapidly increasing student faculty ratios, mass classes, and the use of low-wage teaching assistants and adjunct faculty have changed the job of professor (p. 64 ff.). Faculty are pressured to recruit and retain students seen as "customers" (p. 67) and to compete with private for-profit [End Page 368] universities (p. 71-72). With declining government aid for higher education, students increasingly see education as a form of consumption and demand control, choice, and "edutainment" (p. 64 and elsewhere). This is seen most obviously in "course evaluations" which some of the authors refer to as "customer satisfaction surveys" (p. 36, 132, 147). At the same time, faculty are relentlessly pushed to publish, engage in funded research, and develop new technological competencies. Control over product is threatened as universities make demands on ownership of intellectual property including patents and licenses, publications and courseware (p. 79-81). From the perspective of faculty, McDonaldization represents a dramatic loss of pedagogical authority. Simultaneously, the state, which still pays for much of the cost of education as a "public good," is increasing demands for accountability and standards. This takes the form of schemes for standardizing promotion and tenure, quantifying and measuring the product being delivered, and attempting to assure quality.
Download or read book Brief Submitted to the AUCC Commission to Study the Rationalization of University Research written by Social Science Research Council of Canada. Policy and Finance Committee and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BRIEF SUBMITTED TO THE AUCC COMMISSION TO STUDY THE RATIONALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH written by Social Science Federation of Canada. Policy and Finance Committee and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rationalizing Voter written by Milton Lodge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very sensitive to environmental contextual factors such as the title 'President' preceding 'Obama' in a newspaper headline, upbeat music or patriotic symbols accompanying a campaign ad, or question wording and order in a survey, all of which have their greatest influence when citizens are unaware. This book develops and tests a dual-process theory of political beliefs, attitudes and behavior, claiming that all thinking, feeling, reasoning and doing have an automatic component as well as a conscious deliberative component. The authors are especially interested in the impact of automatic feelings on political judgments and evaluations. This research is based on laboratory experiments, which allow the testing of five basic hypotheses: hot cognition, automaticity, affect transfer, affect contagion and motivated reasoning.
Download or read book Brief Submitted to the AUCC Commission to Study The Rationalization of University Research written by Social Science Research Council of Canada. Committee on Policy and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rationalizing Justice written by Wolf V. Heydebrand and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the history and organization of the federal district courts to the emergence of a new technocratic form of justice. The centerpiece of this study is the clash between adjudication -- the traditional model of dispute resolution -- and the introduction of modern management techniques. From the perspective of the federal trial courts, the authors examine the tension between adjudication and administration. They show dramatic changes in the nature of judicial decision-making and the emergence of new forms of court organization. These changes signal a potential crisis of the judicial system, and Heydebrand and Seron provide insights into its nature and direction, and the immense structural forces underlying the administration of justice in America.
Download or read book BRIEF SUBMITTED TO THE AUCC COMMISSION TO STUDY THE RATIONALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH BY THE POLICY AND FINANCE COMMITTEE written by Social Science Research Council of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brief Submitted to the Aucc Commission to Study the Rationalization of University Research written by Conseil canadien de recherche en sciences sociales. Comite des politiques et des finances and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Higher Education in the Post World War II Era written by Naejin Kwak and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation is composed of three articles, focusing on student-centric changes in American higher education in the post-World War II era. The first article illustrates the expanding notion of students as "whole persons" in the scholarship of higher education and the concomitant rise of student affairs as a professional field. The second article examines the current state of student centrism in American higher education reflected in mission statements. The third article explores the relationship between organizational characteristics and a university's discursive, structural commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity. More specifically, Article 1 explores the ways in which student centrism and student empowerment in American higher education has arisen in the past few decades. With a descriptive analysis of the historical development of keywords in journal articles, the author first demonstrates how sociological and educational scholarship reflects the shifting cultural view on students, increasingly understood as persons, and student life, increasingly complex and multidimensional. This article also illustrates how the field of student affairs has developed, in conjunction with the rise of various dimensions of student life in academic research. The impressive expansion of student-focused research and the structuration of the field of student affairs is discussed with a macro-sociological perspective. Drawing on the neo-institutional approach, this article seeks to explain such rise with two cultural principles of modern society: (1) the valorization of science and rationalization and (2) the expanded notion of personhood. The findings suggest that, beyond market competition, there is a widely held belief that student life is to be managed comprehensively and systematically, by professionals with formal training. While Article 1 focuses on the scholarship of higher education, Article 2 examines the behaviors of higher educational institutions. Specifically, this article explores the university's presentation of various themes of student life in mission statements, using a nationally representative sample of 218 non-for-profit public and private institutions. With increased competition and uncertainty, American higher educational institutions face greater pressures to manage their public image and identity. The findings of a descriptive analysis reveal that virtually all universities and colleges have adopted a mission statement and that there is no systematic pattern across various types of institutions. American higher educational institutions tend to emphasize students' holistic experience, the functional purpose of higher education, learning as well as research. The predominant themes and patterns in mission statements of the random sample are compared with those of the most selective institutions in the United States. Lastly, with historical examples, the author illustrates how and why the form and content of the mission statement has been homogenized over time. Article 3 pays special attention to the issue of diversity. With intensifying discussion on student empowerment and student diversity in higher education, a growing body of literature examines educational benefits of campus diversity for various outcomes ranging from student development to institutional excellence. This article focuses on organizational aspects of diversity initiatives in contemporary American higher education. Specifically, the study explores the relationship between various institutional characteristics and the university's discursive as well as formal structural commitment to diversity, using logistic and zero-inflated negative binomial regressions. Based on a uniquely compiled dataset of organizational characteristics and mission statements for a cross-sectional sample of 236 four-year non-for-profit colleges and universities across the United States, the findings suggest that cultural and institutional factors, above and beyond functional needs, influence (1) a university's emphasis on diversity in its mission statement, (2) its establishment of the diversity office, and (3) its appointment of the high-rank diversity officer. Differential relationships are found for discursive and formal structures, indicating loose coupling in the higher education system. The implications are discussed.
