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Presidential and Board Governance of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics: How the Players, the Rules, and the Game Are Influenced by Temples, Prestige, and Positioning
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Teresa Valerio Parrot – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many institutions of higher education are better known for their athletics programs than their academic offerings. Should a crisis arise, athletics scandal and notoriety can threaten the future trajectory and financial health of the campus. As such, lapses in intercollegiate athletics oversight can create fractures and tensions within institutions…
Descriptors: College Athletics, College Presidents, Governance, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Competitors and Collaborators: Exploring Inter-University Effects in the Academic Discipline of Biomedical Engineering
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Allison S. Lowe Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The interaction of proximate research universities is a multifaceted and increasingly relevant phenomenon in today's higher education landscape. The three essays herein add to science policy and innovation literature by exploring the challenges, opportunities, and expectations that arise when multiple universities operate in a region. The first…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Engineering, Universities, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Assessment and Rankings Efforts: The Effect on Institutional and Program-Level Change
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Schmitt, Stephanie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation considers the effects of national rankings, specifically the 2010 National Research Council (NRC)'s Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, on higher education institutions' behavior. National research studies of graduate education require significant resources and data, yet it is uncertain how universities make…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Change, Higher Education