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Päivi Kinnunen; Leena Ripatti-Torniainen; Åsa Mickwitz; Anne Haarala-Muhonen – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The study aims to investigate the state of higher education (HE) leadership research after the intensified focus on teaching and learning (TL) in academia. Design/methodology/approach: The authors clarify the use of key concepts in English-medium empirical journal articles published between 2017 and 2021 by analysing 64 publications…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Styles
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Scott, William A. H. – Environmental Education Research, 2015
This review essay examines three new books on higher education and sustainability. It explores a number of the issues raised in the books, in particular, the meaning of a transformative orientation towards sustainability. The idea of loose and tight conceptual framings of sustainability is employed. A tight framing is where an institution embodies…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Universities, Higher Education, Concept Formation
Sagintayeva, Aida, Ed.; Kurakbayev, Kairat, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education presents conference proceedings of the annual Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forum held June 12-13, 2013, at Nazarbayev University. The theme of this year's Forum is "Global Trends in Higher Education and their Impact on the Region". Many internationally-recognized higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Lechuga, Vicente M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2004
A number of significant studies of shared governance have been carried out in the last decade.
Descriptors: Governance, Participative Decision Making, Educational Administration, Leadership Responsibility
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Bryman, Alan – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article is a review of the literature concerned with leadership effectiveness in higher education at departmental level. The literature derives from publications from three countries: the UK, the USA and Australia. Surprisingly little systematic research has been conducted on the question of which forms of leadership are associated with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Leadership
Burgan, Mary – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty. Burgan evokes the pervasive atmosphere of charge and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Educational Technology, Faculty Recruitment
Trow, Martin A. – 1984
The role of the university president in the United States is considered in this David D. Henry lecture, as well as in three responses by a panel consisting of University of Illinois President Stanley C. Ikenberry, the university's College of Education Dean Joe R. Burnett, and University of Illinois professor David A. Whetten. A question and answer…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Presidents, Comparative Analysis, Governance
Harvey, Lee – 1995
This report discusses the application of the International Organization for Standards's ISO9000 quality assurance standard and Total Quality Management (TQM) to higher education in light of the "new collegialism." It defines the basic elements of ISO9000 and TQM, reviews the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches, and notes efforts…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Administration, College Instruction, Collegiality
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Potter, Robert E. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1983
Australian and American universities contrast instructively in the degree to which faculties participate in their governance. Although faculties have long attempted to gain authority in American universities and participate substantially today in Australian universities, the former are, and the latter are becoming, dominated by external…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Educational History
Morriss, Susan B. – 1998
This study examined the role of faculty participation on strategic change within higher education. An open-ended questionnaire was completed by seven individuals from Singapore and the United States who had had experience with higher education strategic planning and change as both faculty and administrators in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and the…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, Cross Cultural Studies