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Creating a Great Public University: The History and Influence of Shared Governance at the University of California. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.4.2023
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John Aubrey Douglass – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Since establishing its first campus in 1868, the University of California (UC), California's land-grant university, developed into the nation's first multi-campus system in the United States, and is today widely recognized as the world's premier network of public research universities. This short essay provides an historical brief on the role that…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Development, Participative Decision Making, Governance
Three Stories of Institutional Differentiation: Resource, Mission and Social Inequalities in Higher Education
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Carpentier, Vincent – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
This paper explores the historical relationship between the expansion of the UK HE system through sectorial diversification, processes of differentiation/convergence and (in)equalities since the 1960s. It examines the extent to which the connections and tensions between three stories of resource, mission and social differentiations might be…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission, Educational History
The Roads of "Excellence" in Central and Eastern Europe
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Antonowicz, Dominik; Kohoutek, Jan; Pinheiro, Rómulo; Hladchenko, Myroslava – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
The aim of the article is to explore the impact of excellence as a powerful policy idea in the context of recent and contemporary developments in three selected Central and Eastern European countries, namely, the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine. More specifically, we explore how excellence as a "global script" was translated by policy…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Excellence in Education, Foreign Countries
The Development of Private Higher Education in a Mature Market: A New Zealand Case Study
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Xiaoying, Ma; Abbott, Malcolm – Education Research and Perspectives, 2008
Since 1989, when it became legally possible for private higher education to operate in New Zealand, the sector has grown to become a significant part of the country's higher education system. This paper explores the private penetration, traces the changes that have occurred in private higher education, and evaluate the sector's position in New…
Descriptors: Private Education, Educational Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Change by Design.
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Florida State Board of Regents, Tallahassee. – 1975
The Board of the State of Florida attempts to discharge their obligations and meet the challenge of the decade by: (1) insuring planning diversity through development of a new master plan called CODE (COmprehensive DEvelopment Plan), follow-up professional studies, and by planning for economy and equality; (2) expanding and improving educational…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Budgeting, Cooperative Planning, Educational Development
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Long-Range Planning 1976-1981.
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North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. – 1976
In 1971 legislation, the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina provided that a major function of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina should be to plan for the future of higher education. Major sections of their report on planning cover: (1) a review of higher education in the State of North Carolina; (2)…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Educational Development, Educational Finance