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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
Khalifa, Bayan; Desmidt, Sebastian; Huisman, Jeroen – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) often function in an environment where various institutional pressures force them to position themselves on a national-international orientation scale in order to gain legitimacy in the eyes of different constituents with different expectations. Empirical insights, however, on how HEIs respond to these forces…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission, Position Papers, 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
Valentina A. Bali; Devin Higgins – SAGE Open, 2023
Schools develop mission statements in part to communicate their purposes of schooling to internal and external audiences. The goal of this study is to employ text analytic techniques to analyze school mission statements. Focusing on Arizona and New Jersey's schools, we seek to understand: 1) what themes (topics) emerge from their mission…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Institutional Mission, Position Papers
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
Dedousis, Evangelos – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2018
The purpose of this research is to analyze the mission statements of business colleges operating in the United Arab Emirates. To this end, written and visual documents in the websites of business colleges were surveyed to collect data on components of mission such as philosophy, contribution, markets, and distinctiveness. Content analysis was used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Mission, Content Analysis, Business Schools
Erhardt, Dominik; von Kotzebue, Alexander – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
Unlike in the US and other western countries, the higher education market in Germany has been sheltered from competition. This changed recently, when a governmental "excellence initiative" began to allocate substantial supplementary funds dependent on higher education institutions' performance, in 2005. This study is aimed at assessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Higher Education, Position Papers
Fielke, Simon J.; Botha, Neels; Reid, Janet; Gray, David; Blackett, Paula; Park, Nicola; Williams, Tracy – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: This paper highlights important lessons for co-innovation drawn from three ex-post case study innovation projects implemented within three sub-sectors of the primary industry sector in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach: The characteristics that fostered co-innovation in each innovation project case study were identified from…
Descriptors: Agricultural Engineering, Innovation, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews
Baker, Vicki L.; Greer, Jane; Lunsford, Laura G.; Pifer, Meghan J.; Ihas, Dijana – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
We conducted a content-analysis of the websites of 100 institutional members of the Council of Undergraduate Research in order to examine the relationship between messages communicated on websites as compared to messages expressed within institutional procedures and policies. Findings show that public research institutions were more likely than…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Content Analysis, Web Sites, Administrative Principles
Shah, Mahsood; Richardson, John T. E. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Universities in many countries are developing strategies to enhance the student experience. This focus has never been so important since the development of rankings and the use of student experience measures in institutional performance assessment. Australian government policies to link student experience measures to performance funding were a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Strategic Planning, College Planning
Barnes, Michael C.; Germain, Emily K.; Valenzuela, Angela – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
We read and analyzed 165,000 words and uncover a series of counter-stories buried within a textual corpus, authored by Teach For America (TFA) founder Wendy Kopp (Kopp, 1989, 2001; Kopp & Farr, 2011), that offers insight into the forms of racism endemic to Teach For America. All three counter-stories align with a critical race theory (CRT)…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Institutional Characteristics, Diversity (Institutional)
Raykes, Jeffrey Stuart – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Colleges and universities are being increasingly recognized as key contributors to the well-being of the places in which they are located. However, in spite of the promise and potential of place-based engagement, there is little agreement about what place and place-building means or how these concepts can be operationalized in within the context…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education