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Fiona Margetts; Stephen Jonathan Whitty; Brad Taylor – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
University governing bodies, especially academic boards, play a crucial role in policy formation. However, due to the predominance of managerial values over academic values in the policy-making process, a persistent divide exists between policy formulation and implementation. This divide results from the marginalisation of academics and the…
Descriptors: School Policy, Policy Formation, Colleges, Educational Practices
Ariful Haq Kabir – Comparative Education Review, 2024
While reference societies as an "externalization" process are often used to justify borrowing policies from abroad, a concerted attempt to understand how "power" influences this process, particularly regarding "semiperipheral" references to the periphery, remains absent. This article explores the externalization…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Power Structure
Mahasin F. Saleh; Samah A. Gamar – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
This case study explores the potential for democratic governance in state-regulated Arab higher education systems focusing on institutional committee members' adoption of deliberative, empowered and participatory evidence-based decision-making practices while engaged in university policy development. Amidst a landscape characterised by the forces…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Arabs, Universities, Policy Formation
Teri-Lisa Griffiths; Jill Dickinson – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Internationally, the significance of the relationship between the university environment and the student experience is well-documented. In response, UK university leaders have driven forward policies that focus on estates' expansion and regeneration. The restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to explore…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Universities, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Silva, Aulii-Ann P. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Native Hawaiians have long been underrepresented among Hawai?i's university graduates, yet there is a dearth of studies that explore factors that have contributed to these disparities. My dissertation investigated how multiple factors: prejudices among education administrators, erasures of early advocates from dominant narratives, and failures to…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Decision Making
Brooks, Clare; Perryman, Jane – London Review of Education, 2023
In this article, we examine education policymaking in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the period from 2020 to 2022. We argue that the pandemic, while obviously damaging materially, economically and psychologically, seemed to have provided a rare opportunity for a step change, a chance to recalibrate and reconsider values assumed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Policy Analysis
Wright, Tepora – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
External quality assurance of higher education is possibly the most significant emergent policy within the higher education sector in recent times. This paper examines policy enactment in Samoa, highlighted in the relational tension between the national university and the national external quality assurance body. Research findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education
Xiao Han – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Foucauldian critical studies are cornucopian in illustrating how policy as discourse normalizes and yields human beings into made subjects in modern societies. However, Foucault's own slide from the 'terminal stage of discourse' pays little attention to the linguistic elements, and thus weakens the theory's potency in explaining the reality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Administration, School Personnel
OiYan Poon; Douglas H. Lee; Eileen Galvez; Joanne Song Engler; Bri Sérráno; Ali Raza; Jessica M. Hurtado; Nikki Kahealani Chun – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This study focuses on how admissions at selective colleges and universities represent key racialized organizations. We analyzed data from 50 individual interviews of admissions professionals, through a theory of racialized organizations to recognize admissions as practices that consistently reproduces systemic inequities. We reveal how…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, College Admission, Selective Admission
Jackson, Tommy E.; Smith, Shanna E.; Varga, Matt – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
This study used Critical Race Theory to examine the economic model of the NCAA, through Article 12 (amateurism), which prohibits student-athletes from economically benefitting from their own name, image, and likeness (NIL), and whether the aforementioned policy is equitable in regard to the Black male athletes participating in revenue sports. This…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Critical Race Theory, College Athletics, Intercollegiate Cooperation
McClellan, George S.; Hutchens, Neal H. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2021
This book contains vital information on the historical, philosophical, and legal foundations for shared governance, and it makes the link between fundamentals of law and policy as related to professional practice in student affairs. Practical insights and suggestions for student affairs are offered for practitioners at all levels to ensure…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Governance, Higher Education, Educational History
Wetzinger, Johannes – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
The Republic of Moldova is located in a tense geopolitical environment between the European Union (EU) and the Russian Federation. As the EU and Russia have incorporated higher education in their foreign policy agendas, this article analyses (1) whether the higher education policies of the EU and Russia are in competition in Moldova and (2) how…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Han, Shuangmiao – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
China has adopted policy experimentation (PE) as a means of introducing and testing innovative policy options for reforms in higher education (HE). This paper explores how PE plays out in the HE sector, involving state actors and university actors in a dynamic interactive process and bringing about institutional changes. This paper proposes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation, Educational Change
Gándara, Denisa – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Extant research neglects to examine how policymakers make decisions regarding funding allocations to higher education institutions. This case study analyzed the policy process surrounding the development of one model for funding higher education in Colorado. The study is anchored in a theory of policy design, which considers how groups targeted by…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Policy Formation, State Policy
Hudler, Keara; Dennis, Lilly; DiNella, Muriel; Ford, Nataley; Mendez, Joanna; Long, Joshua – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
In recent decades, universities have made significant progress toward environmental sustainability and have likewise tightened their budgets and restructured economic models in the name of financial sustainability. However, institutions of higher education have failed to address issues of social sustainability and social injustice, many of which…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Universities, College Students
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