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Beabout, Brian R. – Online Submission, 2012
While scholarship on educational change has long accepted that disruptions to the status quo are an essential part of the change process, disruption has never been more central to planned change than it is in the current political context in the USA, where legislation has mandated school closure, reconstitution, and turnaround as required remedies…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Institutional Environment, Educational Practices, Performance Factors
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Spillane, James P.; Parise, Leigh Mesler; Sherer, Jennifer Zoltners – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
The institutional environment of America's schools has changed substantially as government regulation has focused increasingly on the core technical work of schools--instruction. The authors explore the school administrative response to this changing environment, describing how government regulation becomes embodied in the formal structure of four…
Descriptors: Institutional Environment, Educational Environment, Government School Relationship, Public Officials
Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2009
The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) in Hiroshima University started a program of research on the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) in 2005. This research is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science as a grant-in-aid for scientific research headed by Professor Akira Arimoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Biographies
Sporn, Barbara – 1999
This study examined the adaptation of institutions of higher education in the United States and Europe to changing socioeconomic factors and proposed a theory of adaptation in higher education which stresses the need for new forms of governance, management, and leadership structures. The study analyzed six university structures, each with a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Colleges, Comparative Education