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Universities as Complex Systems: Data, Power Laws, and an Agent-Based Model
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Salwa Ismail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Universities consist of students, faculty and staff, interacting through multiple layers of organization and on a variety of time scales. They are complex adaptive systems (CAS) yet the bulk of scholarship on higher education analyzes them using conventional social science methods, with little work that tries to understand them using complexity…
Descriptors: Universities, Systems Approach, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Rural Colleges