scholarly journals THE ACADEMIC CAPITALISM AND THE NEW BUSINESS MODEL OF THE UNIVERSITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Margarita Bogdanova ◽  
Venelin Terziev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
New Business ◽  
The University

The report examines the phenomenon of academic capitalism and the potential consequences of its spread, and the capacity of universities to meet the challenges of entrepreneurship as an organizational management model. Special emphasis is placed on the differentiated effect on universities, depending on the area in which they conduct teaching and research, as well as on the peculiarities of the university business model in the changing environment of the higher education schools.

scholarly journals THE ACADEMIC CAPITALISM AND THE NEW BUSINESS MODEL OF THE UNIVERSITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 286-292
Author(s):  
Venelin Terziev ◽  
Margarita Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
New Business ◽  
The University

The report examines the phenomenon of academic capitalism and the potential consequences of its spread, and the capacity of universities to meet the challenges of entrepreneurship as an organizational management model. Special emphasis is placed on the differentiated effect on universities, depending on the area in which they conduct teaching and research, as well as on the peculiarities of the university business model in the changing environment of the higher education schools. Keywords: academic capitalism, university business model, universities.

Evaluation of the Academic Setting in Spain 1This study was financed by the University of Oviedo.

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Miguel A. Mateo ◽  
José Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Evaluation Questionnaire ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of the three dimensions assessed in the ASEQ, Satisfaction received the lowest ratings, Social Climate was rated higher, and Relations with students was rated the highest. These results are similar to those found in two studies carried out in the academic years 1986/87 and 1989/90. Their relevance for higher education is twofold because these data can be used as a complement of those obtained by means of students' opinions, and the crossing of both types of data can facilitate decision making in order to improve the quality of the work (teaching and research) of the university institutions.

The Changing Mission and Nature of Partnerships in Public Universities

2013 ◽  
pp. 726-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo ◽  
Kristin Brittain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
New Business ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

Reasons for public education are many; however, to crystalize and synthesize this, quite simply, public education is for the public good. The goal, or mission, of public education is to offer truth and enlightenment for students, including adult learners. Public education in the United States has undergone many changes over the course of the last 200 years, and now public education is under scrutiny and is facing a continual lack of funding from the states. It is due to these issues that public higher education is encouraging participatory corporate partnerships, or neo-partnerships, that will fund the university, but may expect a return on investment for private shareholders, or an expectation that curriculum will be contrived and controlled by the neo-partnerships. A theoretical framework of an academic mission and a business mission is explained, the impact of privatization within the K-12 model on public higher education, the comparison of traditional and neo-partnerships, the shift in public higher education towards privatization, a discussion of university boards, and the business model as the new frame for a public university. A public university will inevitably have to choose between a traditional academic mission that has served the nation for quite some time and the new business mission, which may have negative implications for students, academic freedom, tenure, and faculty-developed curriculum.

Internationalization in the context of academic capitalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Susan Appe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Central Offices ◽  
The University

This article is written from the perspective of a faculty member in a professional graduate degree program who is committed to internationalization, but also notes its challenges given the context in which higher education finds itself. First, the article outlines the ways in which higher education is thinking about internationalization, in particular with a focus on faculty-led short-term study abroad programs. Second, the article juxtaposes internationalization with the current conversation and debates about academic capitalism. Finally, it ends with overarching topics that deserve further exploration and include: (a) that internationalization is often tailored to faculty interests but that this might make systemic assessment challenging; (b) that there are shifting relations among the university central offices related to internationalization processes and academic departments; and (c) given the academic capitalism debates, the article asks whether we can implement and assess our internationalization processes while still adhering to academic quality and credibility.

scholarly journals Enhancing higher education curricula: A case study from the University of Waikato, New Zealand

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Longhurst ◽  
Alister Jones
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The University

In 2014, the University of Waikato launched the Curriculum Enhancement Programme (CEP). As the leaders of this programme we have used auto-ethnography to reflect critically on our experience. Throughout the course of the CEP some things have gone well; others, in hindsight, have not gone so well and in retrospect we would have done them differently. This includes using more channels of communication, more frequently, especially with staff; getting all of Waikato's faculties to pull together more effectively as one institution; and working harder to increase students' opportunities for interdisciplinarity in teaching and research. These lessons, we hope, will be helpful for others also embarking on wide-scale curriculum change.

scholarly journals Hvad gør de med faglighed og køn? - interview med studerende på et humanistisk studium

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne V. Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Second Year ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Content

The article interprets professianlism and gender in mothertongue studies in higher education and research. The interpretation is based on a close reading of interviews with students who are in their second year. Opinions on academic content and approach divide the students, who are writing their M.A. theses, into two groups: some students' pronouncements are accepting and general, while others are critical and specific in what they say. The opinions on teaching and research devide the students, who are on their second year, where few want more research in their learning, whereas most of the studens are unaware of research in the teaching. They prefer to learn to teach as proffessionals outside the university. Some of the women can tell how their choises to teach outside the university are despised in mothertongue  studies in higher education. Theoretically and methodologically the author of this article is inspired by social constructivists and thinking beyond binarities by poststructuralism and postfeminist theories.

scholarly journals The world-system of academic capitalism: Process of consolidation of the entrepeneurial university

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World System ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
The University

The goal of this article is to analyze two institutional contexts in which academic communities develop their educational activities: the enterprising university and academic capitalism. The methodology of analysis of Higher Education institutions in the world system uses the model developed by the sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. This analysis focuses on three dimensions: the "consolidation of the world-economy of the academic capitalism" (the transformation of higher education as a commodity), the "de-capitalization of the public university" (the new policies of quasi-market and of financing associated with the "entrepreneurial university") and "geoculture of the system-world of the academic capitalism," linked to the society of the knowledge, managerial ideologies, and intellectual entrepreneurship, but also to counter-hegemonic ideologies that supports the autonomy of the university as a pre-condition for social development.

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