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C. Hartzell; J. Schueller; Flavia Colus; N. Cristina do Rosário – Tertiary Education and Management, 2023
The European Commission recently incentivized universities to establish alliances in order to institutionalise regional collaboration through the European Universities Initiative (EUI). Alliances are envisioned to maintain Europe's global position and enhance regional integration. Their mission statements are ways of signalling identity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Position Papers
Marcelo Marques; Lukas Graf – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2024
The European Universities Initiative (EUI), created by the European Commission in 2017, is a recent novel phenomenon within the European Union policy toolkit that explicitly targets the development of transnational cooperation in higher education (HE). To date, the EUI counts 44 European university alliances, involving around 340 HE institutions.…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Higher Education, Global Approach, Educational Change
Fantauzzi, Chiara; Colasanti, Nathalie; Fiorani, Gloria; Frondizi, Rocco – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study aims, first of all, to analyze the extent to which Italian higher education institutions declare their mission statements in their official documents; then, to examine their content; and finally, to investigate whether mission statements include considerations on sustainability dimensions. Design/methodology/approach: After a…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Universities, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Berghaeuser, Hendrik; Hoelscher, Michael – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Higher education systems are changing due to trends of funding pressures, increasing social demands and growing numbers of students. Even though teaching and research are still considered as the pivotal functions of universities, other activities such as technology transfer, lifelong learning or social engagement have broadened the scope of their…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Universities
Zhaoheng Xu; Lei Liu; Jie Yu – Cogent Education, 2024
Developing a clear and applicable mission statement is essential for business schools to obtain AACSB accreditation, and it is also a core embodiment of their ability to achieve sustained excellence. By the end of 2023, a total of 48 business schools in mainland China have been accredited by AACSB, which has a positive modelling effect on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Knowledge Management, Educational Innovation
Gonzalez-Campo, Carlos Hernan; Murillo-Vargas, Guillermo; Garcia Solarte, Monica – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: A mission statement is the central axis of any organization and the cornerstone of its strategic planning. Universities have implemented this tool to define, among other things, its identity; however, the legal nature and functions of the mission statement have not been determined. In this article, the authors analyze the differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Mission, Position Papers
Hannah Yun Yau Lai – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Because of the priority placed on learning intercultural skills in the 21st century workplace, many higher educational institutions around the world have emphasized internationalization in recent years. In late 2022, two years after the Covid-19 pandemic significantly impacted their internationalization efforts, resulting in quarantine…
Descriptors: Global Approach, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Colleges
Pizarro Milian, Roger – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Conventional scholarship within the sociology of education and organizations posits that schools achieve legitimacy by virtue of conforming to normative standards, abiding by government regulations and mimicking the forms of successful peers. Through this study, an examination of a sample of 751 Canadian for-profit colleges (FPCs) is performed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Advancement, Proprietary Schools, Private Colleges
Seeber, Marco; Barberio, Vitaliano; Huisman, Jeroen; Mampaey, Jelle – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This article explores the factors affecting the content of universities' mission statements. We conceptualize missions as identity narratives, a type of symbolic representation of an organization. Based on the literature on organizational identity we argue that universities need to address two major challenges when crafting their mission…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Position Papers, Reputation, Content Analysis
Bialik, Gadi; Merhav, Ortal – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
An in-depth understanding of field-level educational school goals and educational leadership action trajectories as embodied and represented in school vision "content" is of scholarly and practical importance. This is even more true in an era of expanding social pluralism and rising school autonomy owing to the leadership and policy…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Strategic Planning, Instructional Leadership, Institutional Autonomy
Oertel, Simon; Söll, Matthias – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Universities find themselves faced with the conflicting institutional demands of being cathedrals of learning and research as well as introducing managerial and corporate-like structures. Despite many studies in higher education research that focus on how this situation affects the mission of universities, the role of imprinting has not received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Trends, Educational Research
Driscoll, Cathy; Price, Shelley; McKee, Margaret; Nicholls, Jason – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2017
This paper explores how sustainability has been integrated into and communicated in Canadian Master's of Business Administration (MBA) programs. We content analyzed university, business school, and MBA program mission and values statements; communicated strategic priorities; and relevant academic calendar content, as well as sustainability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
Aydin, Abdullah – International Education Studies, 2019
"Go to temples of science and ideas of Europe. Imitate the Tugendbund, 'the Union of Virtue', of which thousands of German youth are the members. Always keep the rule of 'Fit soul is in fit body' in mind" (Petrov, 2013, p. 72). This study aimed to show the similarities, in terms of expression, emphasis, and implication, in the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Institutional Mission, Content Analysis, Web Sites
Charungkaittikul, Suwithida – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2018
This article is a study of the guidelines for lifelong education management to mobilize learning communities in the social-cultural context of Thailand is intended to 1) analyze and synthesize the management of lifelong learning to mobilize learning community in the social-cultural context of Thailand; and 2) propose guidelines for lifelong…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Guidelines, Social Environment, Cultural Context
Klemencic, Manja; Galán Palomares, Fernando Miguel – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
The article seeks to advance understanding of the involvement of transnational student associations in European governance of higher education policies within the European Union (EU) and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Specifically, the article explores the mechanisms for interest intermediation that exist for transnational student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Organizations, Governance, Educational Policy