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Direct linkPeter Woelert; Bjørn Stensaker – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2025
Over recent decades, one can identify two key narratives associated with changes in university organization and governance. The first narrative focuses on the administrative consequences of an off-loading state relinquishing direct control over some of universities' internal operations while at the same time driving bureaucratization at the…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, School Restructuring, Administrative Organization, Universities
Woelert, Peter – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there is growing concern about increasing administrative burden within universities around the world. At the same time, the literature explicitly devoted to the issue of administrative burden within universities remains relatively scant. Drawing on various bodies of literature and reflections on the situation at…
Descriptors: Universities, College Administration, Governance, Foreign Countries
Bjørn Stensaker; Jens Jungblut; Georgiana Mihut – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards -- informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Governance, Universities
Mehboob Ul Hassan; Abid Hussain; Khalid Rashid; Muhammad Hameed Nawaz – European Journal of Education, 2025
This interdisciplinary research explores the complex interplay between democratic erosion and migration crises, recognising their profound implications for social cohesion. With universities serving as bastions of knowledge and inclusion, their role in addressing these challenges is paramount. By implementing targeted programs and initiatives,…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Strategies, Democracy, Migration
Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
Linhao Jiang; Youliang Zhang; Yucui Shen – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Adoption of the "Double World-Class" policy in China has led to substantial changes in the country's higher education governance system. Thus, to examine whether any undesired effects have occurred, in this study, we conducted document analysis along with purposive interviews to gather pertinent data on one local university that has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Governance, Educational Change
Ieva Grumbinaite; Flávia Colus; Hugo Buitrago Carvajal – European Union, 2025
This study report on the outcomes and transformational potential of the European Universities initiative presents the progress, achievements, and transformational potential of the European Universities initiative, and gives insights on remaining challenges. It provides recommendations to continue making the European Universities initiative a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Corina Joseph; Saifulrizan Norizan; Rahmawati – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
Prior researches have highlighted challenges and variations arising from the requirements of research ethics committees and ethics governance systems across diverse research fields. This emphasizes the need to investigate how universities convey and implement research ethical practices. Research ethics plays a pivotal role in guiding the…
Descriptors: Universities, Web Sites, Ethics, Information Dissemination
Woo, Etienne – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
Underlying current research on China's world-class university (WCU) policy approaches are analytical foci that privilege the agency of social actors and the problem-solving approach to policy analysis. Foucauldian poststructuralists draw our attention to policy document, which is seen as a discourse that organizes and administers society. Inspired…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Governance
Lima, Clayton dos Santos; Kieling, Debora Londero; Veiga Ávila, Lucas; Paço, Arminda; Zonatto, Vinícius Costa da Silva – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse through a systematic literature review the evolution of the theme of environmental social and governance (ESG) in universities, correlating variables and presenting a panorama for Latin American universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a systematic literature review approach. The…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Universities, Governance, Foreign Countries
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Daniel Neyland; Sveta Milyaeva – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
In this paper, we engage with the Research Excellence Framework (REF) -- the UK government's national policy tool for competitive allocation of scarce research funding. Success on the terms of the REF provides guaranteed income for UK Universities for a 6- or 7-year period -- and as a result, we suggest that the REF operates as an asset-like…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Public Policy
Abraham C. Flipse; Floris J. N. van Berckel Smit; Jeroen Huisman – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
This paper offers a historical analysis of organizational identity development at a particular Dutch university, the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. Our analysis contributes to the discussion on what factors contribute to organizational identity maintenance and evolution. Whereas the literature suggests a rather straightforward development,…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Universities, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Xia Wu; Weijun He; Huan Li; Liang Yuan; Thomas Stephen Ramsey; Yang Kong – SAGE Open, 2024
Much of the university spin-offs (USOs) literature either focuses on the influence of parent universities or the external environments on enterprise performance in economies with one aspect almost always neglected, that is, the role of USOs' corporate governance. In this study, we examine the effects of USOs' corporate governance structure which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Governance
Marc Schroeder – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
In this essay, I introduce the term "governance inversion" to describe a situation in which a university administration repositions a governance body in such a way as to limit its legitimate governance function. Structural conditions might make governance inversion more likely, but narratives might also be deployed to make the inversion…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Universities, College Governing Councils
