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Emily J. Levine; Mitchell L. Stevens – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
For two centuries, academics and their universities have competed for prominence and vied to demonstrate that their institutions are at the center of the scholarly world. Scientific advances in particular fields, reciprocal academic visits and conferences, impressive physical architecture, and publishing in shared venues and a "lingua…
Descriptors: Competition, Higher Education, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
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Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai; Jones, Glen A.; Bilyalov, Darkhan; Panova, Anna; Stephenson, Grace Karram; Yudkevich, Maria – Higher Education Policy, 2021
This article investigates whether the level of academics' societal engagement (ASE) is higher or lower at universities with leading research university (LRU) status compared with institutions at lower status levels within vertically stratified systems. In a theory-based purposeful sampling, we studied the correlation of LRU-status and ASE in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Research Universities, Power Structure
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Korfmann, Frauke; Müller, Sven; Ehlert, Sebastian; Haase, Knut – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
In Germany enrolment in majors is of considerable interest to academic departments, because their budget depends on the number of enrolled students. Besides observed factors, we presume that unobserved latent variables influence the major-choice decision of students. Using stated preferences data from a discrete choice experiment among students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Business Administration Education, Preferences