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Download full textPritchett, Mark S. – 1990
This paper presents a comprehensive case analysis of formal environmental scanning processes in three different institutions of higher education. The study focuses on how environmental scanning activities are organized and used to support institutional planning and decision-making. Special emphasis is placed on describing how environmental…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Colleges, Decision Making, Higher Education
Hentschke, Guilbert C. – 1987
In the first section of this paper it is pointed out that the institutional environment of a university dramatically shapes the identity of its school of education. A description is given of the environmental conditions of the University of Rochester (New York) which most influence the character of its education school: (1) the institution is…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Environment
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This analysis is an attempt to specify the purposes and factors in organizational change and continuity. Denial of the purposeful premise makes possible an environmental perspective that views the characteristics of organizations as a function of their adaptation to their environment. This approach is based on the premises that (1) change in what…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Cultural Influences, Educational Sociology, Institutional Environment
Keith, Kent M. – 1997
In this study, 76 faculty (48 tenured, 28 nontenured) at 5 private universities were interviewed and asked to rate seven questions on tenure and then comment on their ratings. Faculty were at small and medium-sized colleges and universities in Southern California and represented the fields of sociology, history, biology, and business. The faculty…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Due Process, Employment Practices
Escala, Miguel J. – 1989
The paper provides a framework for identifying trends in planning in Latin American universities for the last 20 years. Identification of the planning trends is based on two main dimensions: the purpose of the relationship between universities and the external environment (organization-centered versus society-centered), and the degree by which the…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Developing Nations, Educational Practices
Arnold, Gertrude L.; Peterson, Marvin W. – 1998
This study applied feminist organizational theory to explore the effects of gender structure on perceptions of organizational culture and climate. The study used data from a 1994 survey of permanent, noninstructional staff at a major midwestern university (n=4,800). The research sought to determine: (1) whether gender-dominated organizational…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Diversity (Institutional), Employed Women
