Aligning Faculty Rewards with Institutional Mission: Statements, Policies, and Guidelines

2001 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Berger ◽  
Robert M. Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Mission Statements ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Faculty Rewards

Backtalk

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-48
Author(s):  
Brian Sevier
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Faculty And Staff

Faculty and staff often spend a great deal of time crafting or updating their institutional mission statements. But few students are aware that those mission statements exist at all, much less that they serve as meaningful guides for teaching and learning. The author recommends regular check-ins to see whether schools are practicing what they preach.

Entrepreneurial Universities – The Key Ingredient in the Recipe for UK Innovation?

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Martin ◽  
Paula Turner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
University Industry

This study of 15 UK universities explores the reality of university–industry liaison and service delivery roles. Contextualized within the role of universities in innovation and knowledge transfer, it confirms the views of previous analysts that tensions result from imposing third mission activities on organizations established for other purposes. Policy makers need to address the heterogeneity of the higher education sector if they are to achieve success with regard to UK competitiveness. Such an approach will include the recognition that internal collaboration may be actively discouraged while external links are simultaneously emphasized in institutional mission statements. Also, successful business engagement requires a flexible and responsive culture and an emphasis on external collaboration.

scholarly journals Institutional mission statements: discursive construction of organizational identity in Canadian post-secondary education

Horizontes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. e020004
Author(s):  
Sebin Jung
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Post Secondary

Para navegar nas páginas de instituições educacionais quando escolhendo onde estudar, futuros alunos precisam ter altos níveis de letramento para entender como tais organizações se representam para o mundo.  Este estudo examina a construção discursiva da identidade organizacional nas declarações de missão de instituições Canadenses pós-secundária selecionadas por meio da aplicação do procedimento de análise de gêneros (SWALES, 1990) o Inglês para Fins Específicos de movimentos e passos e análise léxico-gramatical (HYON, 2018) para entender a organização retórica das declarações de missão e padrões gramaticais e lexicais que caracterizam cada movimento individual. Os resultados das análises de um pequeno corpus de 14 declarações de missões mostram que todas as amostras de declaração de missão incluem ‘comprometimentos’ como o movimento obrigatório; entretanto, os comprometimentos primários das declarações de missão da universidade diferenciam-se daqueles de faculdades, portanto refletindo diferenças em propósitos institucionais e funções de dois tipos de instituições educacionais pós-secundária. Implicações práticas e pedagógicas do estudo são discutidos.

Unknown and Under-Researched: The Anatomy of Drinking Under Control Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Harald Klingemann ◽  
Justyna Klingemann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract. Introduction: While alcohol treatment predominantly focuses on abstinence, drug treatment objectives include a variety of outcomes related to consumption and quality of life. Consequently harm reduction programs tackling psychoactive substances are well documented and accepted by practitioners, whereas harm reduction programs tackling alcohol are under-researched and met with resistance. Method: The paper is mainly based on key-person interviews with eight program providers conducted in Switzerland in 2009 and up-dated in 2015, and the analysis of reports and mission statements to establish an inventory and description of drinking under control programs (DUCPs). A recent twin program in Amsterdam and Essen was included to exemplify conditions impeding their implementation. Firstly, a typology based on the type of alcohol management, the provided support and admission criteria is developed, complemented by a detailed description of their functioning in practice. Secondly, the case studies are analyzed in terms of factors promoting and impeding the implementation of DUCPs and efforts of legitimize them and assess their success. Results: Residential and non-residential DUCPs show high diversity and pursue individualized approaches as the detailed case descriptions exemplify. Different modalities of proactively providing and including alcohol consumption are conceptualized in a wider framework of program objectives, including among others, quality of life and harm reduction. Typically DUCPs represent an effort to achieve public or institutional order. Their implementation and success are contingent upon their location, media response, type of alcohol management and the response of other substance-oriented stake holders in the treatment system. The legitimization of DUCPs is hampered by the lack of evaluation studies. DUCPs rely mostly – also because of limited resources – on rudimentary self-evaluations and attribute little importance to data collection exercises. Conclusions: Challenges for participants are underestimated and standard evaluation methodologies tend to be incompatible with the rationale and operational objectives of DUCPs. Program-sensitive multimethod approaches enabled by sufficient financing for monitoring and accompanying research is needed to improve the practice-oriented implementation of DUCPs. Barriers for these programs include assumptions that ‘alcohol-assisted’ help abandons hope for recovery and community response to DUCPs as locally unwanted institutions (‘not in my backyard’) fuelled by stigmatization.

Educational Transformation through Online Learning: To Be or Not to Be

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G Picciano ◽  
Jeff Seaman ◽  
I. Elaine Allen
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Instructional Quality ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Education ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Educational Transformation ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Student Access ◽  
K 12

The purpose of this article is to examine online learning at the macro level in terms of its impact on American K-12 and higher education. The authors draw on six years of data that they have collected through national studies of online learning in American education as well as related research to do a critical and balanced analysis of the evolution of online learning in the United States and to speculate where it is going. Their collection of data represents some of the most extensive research examining online learning in the totality of K-20 education. Issues related to the growth of online learning, institutional mission, student access, faculty acceptance, instructional quality, and student satisfaction are explored. Of particular importance is an attempt to determine if online learning is in fact transforming American education in its essence and to speculate on the future.

A Unifying Principle for a Researcher Learning Safety: Reduce Uncertainty!

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Kao ◽  
Russell Furr
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Conveying safety information to researchers is challenging. A list of rules and best practices often is not remembered thoroughly even by individuals who want to remember everything. Researchers in science thinking according to principles: mathematical, physical, and chemical laws; biological paradigms. They use frameworks and logic, rather than memorization, to achieve the bulk of their work. Can safety be taught to researchers in a manner that matches with how they are trained to think? Is there a principle more defined than "Think safety!" that can help researchers make good decisions in situations that are complex, new, and demanding?<div><br></div><div>Effective trainings in other professions can arise from the use of a mission statement that participants internalize as a mental framework or model for future decision-making. We propose that mission statements incorporating the concept of <b>reducing uncertainty</b> could provide such a framework for learning safety. This essay briefly explains the definition of <b>uncertainty</b> in the context of health and safety, discusses the need for an individual to <b>personalize</b> a mission statement in order to internalize it, and connects the idea of <b>greater control</b> over a situation with less uncertainty with respect to safety. The principle of reducing uncertainty might also help <b>non-researchers</b> think about safety. People from all walks of life should be able to understand that more control over their situations provides more protection for them, their colleagues, and the environment.</div>

Institutional Mission Education as a Form of Teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-274
Author(s):  
Carl B. Procario-Foley
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Mission Education
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