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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
Preventing Crises at Your University: The Playbook for Protecting Your Institution's Reputation. Higher Ed Leadership Essentials
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Barker, Simon R. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Unlike other industries, in higher education an institution's most important asset is its reputation. Yet as fundamental as it is, many leaders continue to view managing reputation as dishonest and counterproductive, a suspect process that undermines the very idea of reputation as an organic outcome of reality. When leadership credibility is on…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Educational Strategies, Values
Complexity Theory and the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education: The Case of the University of Cape Town
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Mark Mason – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
In the post-Apartheid era South Africa's universities have faced serious questions about the quality of their student learning in the face of near impossible challenges. The University of Cape Town, widely seen as the country's leading higher education institution, has shown remarkable resilience, however, in the range of initiatives it has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Relations, Racial Attitudes, Educational Quality
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
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (104th, Washington, D.C., November 10-12, 1991).
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National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1991
This proceedings presents the discussions, business meetings, lectures, and speeches delivered at the 104th Annual Meeting of The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, including the organization's financial statements for December 31, 1990 and 1989. In addition, the proceedings lists the past elected heads of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agribusiness, Colleges, Financial Audits
Measuring Alumni's Image of a University.
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Bardo, John W.; And Others – Journal for Higher Education Management, 1990
Development and application of the Educational Institution Image Instrument, designed to assess alumni perceptions of a higher education institution, is chronicled. Results showed it is a highly reliable scale containing five significant and interpretable subdimensions when applied to a random alumni sample. Implications for image measurement and…
Descriptors: Alumni, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, College Administration