Academic Departments In Universities Research Articles

Modelling the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation in academic department: the mediating role of faculty members’ speaking up

The creation of an entrepreneurship university involves the promotion and institutionalisation of the orientation towards entrepreneurship of all parts of the university, especially the scientific departments, which is affected by several factors. Therefore, our research investigates the effect of transformational leadership style of academic departments’ heads on entrepreneurial orientation of these departments mediated by speaking up behaviour of faculty members. Data were collected from 217 faculty members of 50 academic departments in universities of Qom city and provided support for the model. The findings demonstrated a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership and speaking up, between speaking up and entrepreneurial orientation, and between transformational leadership and entrepreneurial orientation. Furthermore, speaking up mediates the relation between transformation leadership style and entrepreneurial orientation. These findings highlight the catalyst role of speaking up, leveraging transformational leadership as antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation in academic departments. These findings are valuable inputs for managers in university, and policy makers in a higher education sector. Eventually, the theoretical and practical inferences of this research are discussed.

Modern Development Road of Red Tourism Education Innovation in the New Era—Based on the Teaching and Educational Reform of Red Tourism Courses in Colleges and Universities

In recent years, China has attached great importance to red tourism. Red tourism industry of China has developed rapidly and has achieved full intellectual achievements. Red tourism training of the tourism industry, especially red tourism education for teenagers in universities and primary and secondary schools, has been carried out in an orderly manner, and other academic departments in universities have also invested in theoretical research and intellectual innovation. However, the rapid development in some areas may also bring about a series of new problems. The development of red tourism education is a project of continuous innovation. We should follow the strategic thinking of China's scientific development vision, and realize the sustainable development of red tourism, so as to sublimate the intellectual education function of red tourism education. At the same time, the deepening of red tourism education of current world is facing new challenges and opportunities. Especially under the influence of COVID-19 (hereinafter referred to as "epidemic"), China's traditional red tourism development model has once been impacted, in particular, the innovation of red tourism education among young people in colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools, and the development of red tourism education has been in a critical period of modern development. Under the epidemic normalized situation, the red tourism education steadily, sustainable development has gradually become an important focus, this paper from the new political, economic and cultural pattern, analyzes the new problems related to red tourism, and take this opportunity to explore the epidemic normalized red tourism new way of sustainable development of the education.

Barriers to university-industry collaboration in an academic university department in London, United Kingdom

PurposeUniversity-industry collaboration yields numerous advantages resulting in potential benefits in funding research and innovation. Despite the numerous benefits, there are various perceived disadvantages of such collaboration especially in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry in prominent academic institutes in London, UK. The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions, opinions, beliefs and attitudes of the academics and clinicians in an academic university department towards industry collaboration.Design/methodology/approachTwo methods were applied, quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative method used an online questionnaire of four-point Likert-Scale, the link of which was emailed to 80 members of the department with a response rate of 32%. The qualitative method included a one-to-one interview with eight researchers from the department to garner in-depth information on the attitude of researchers in child and adolescent psychiatry towards industry collaboration.FindingsThe online questionnaire was completed by 26 researchers, the vast majority perceived industry as biased to favour their product and as having a bad or mixed reputation. One-on-one interviews with eight prominent researchers allowed us to share their perception and attitude towards industry collaboration, although the researchers believe that availability of funding was the major advantage of working in collaboration with industry, many did not know how to access such grants and some raised concerns about industry’s record of presenting partial results.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the chosen research approach, the research results may lack generalisability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed propositions further.Practical implicationsThis paper will shed light on how prominent researchers perceive collaboration with industry.Originality/valueAlthough researchers are very reluctant to collaborate with industry because of its public opinion and sometimes unethical and lack of integrity among the industry, with rigorous ethical guidelines and policies, the pharmaceutical industry can be a potential and significant source of funding of high-quality research and innovation.

Developing Innovative Support Structures in Higher Education Institutions: A Student Perspective

Higher education institutions have been obliged to work extremely hard to ensure their sustainability and growth to meet the ever-increasing demands of university students, parents, and stakeholders. Universities have been under great pressure to remain competitive with a great deal of emphasis placed on being innovative, building auxiliary structures, and acquiring qualified academics. The concept of service delivery of academic departments in universities of technology has received minimal attention. This study explored student expectations and perceptions of service quality provided by academic support departments with the intention of enhancing the level of student satisfaction and experience. A quantitative research approach was employed using questionnaires. A nonprobability convenience sampling was adopted to identify 260 students. Data were coded and analyzed for descriptive analysis using SPSS Version 23.0. The findings revealed that many students were not content with various services provided by the academic departments within the university and that the academic departments did not offer students the services that they expected. The dimension of SERVQUAL displayed a negative gap in services provided by academic administrative staff. On the basis of these findings, it is recommended that the university attends to the identified key areas of concern, particularly administrative staff competency.

Practice Degree of the Managerial Transparency in the Jordanian Private Universities as Viewed by Their Heads of Departments

This study aimed to identify extent of the administrative transparency implementation in the Jordanian private universities as viewed by the directors of the academic departments in these universities. To achieve the study aims, a 47-item questionnaire was developed, generally intended to identify the administrative transparency in the private universities. The validity and reliability of the instrument had been duly verified. The study sample consisted of (93) academic departments' directors who were chosen through the random stratified method from the academic departments in the Jordanian private universities during the 2010/2011 academic year. To answer the study questions, the means, standard deviations (SD's), and (ANOVA) analysis of the study sample individuals. The findings of the study indicated that the implementation of the administrative transparency in the Jordanian private universities is carried out to a wide extent. The study findings further showed that there are no statistically significant differences at (α<0.05) significance level in the means of the administrative transparency practicing in the Jordanian private universities that may be ascribed to the (academic rank, years of experience, type of faculty) variables. The study recommended deepening and increasing the awareness of practicing the administrative transparency with the academic cadres at the Jordan higher education institutions. Such awareness could be performed by training these cadres on the transparency practicing concept, and informing them about the experiments of the international universities and the successes they gained as a result of adopting and practicing of such transparency, through developing the values and trends to build an established organizational university culture, in order to stress on the transparency practice with all the university workers. This is essential for the purpose of getting rid of some misused social vals such as favoritism and patronage, which effectively contribute in constraining the transparency practicing, especially when it comes to appoint the administrative and academic cadres, decision making mechanism, and implementation thereof in these universities.

Improving perceptions of value to teaching and research staff: The next challenge for academic libraries

This article investigates the value, and perceptions of value, of academic libraries to teaching and research staff by examining working relationships between libraries and academic departments in universities. Eight case studies were undertaken in the US, the UK and Scandinavia. Primary findings were analysed and triangulated with a series of short surveys to ascertain whether they resonated with other librarians’ experiences. The article offers examples of good practice in the area of partnership building for academic libraries to improve their value to, or perceptions of value by, teaching and research staff, as well as raise their profile and better market their services to this category of users. Those examples may be of interest to fellow library practitioners and researchers interested in exploring further library-faculty interaction and collaboration.

The Creativity &amp; Novelty Sciences School and Research Center

All over the world , half a dozen fields of design , of creativity, of innovation are split among dozens of academic departments in universities and research labs and among dozens of buildings, sites, and departments in corporations. If you want to master many, most, or all of these Creativity Sciences (also called Novelty Sciences) or announce results to many, most, or all of them, you have to visit dozens of places, sites, people and institutions or publish in dozens of journals. Many of these Creativity & Novelty Sciences compete for funds and hinder each other's progress. This paper reports on the design and initial pilot operations of a Single One-Stop Source for 18 Creativity & Novelty Sciences, all taught in relation to each other using common ground among them furnished by 60 models of creativity. It encompasses 45 models of innovation, 48 approaches to design, and, in general, a switch from academic seeking of One Right-y Model for all to bow down to, to balanced repertoires of plural models that compensate for each other's flaws and biases. A school of 9 Creativity Sciences in one 3-week session and 9 more in a second 3-week session (each course on 2 consecutive days of 10 hours). At the core of each course is a repertoire of plural diverse models approach that challenges the Single Right-y Model approach of academia.

Designing a Framework Based on Problem-Based Learning for CSCL Environments in Order to Enhance 21st Century Skills

Due to the complexity of the knowledge society and the technology integration, teachers need support in developing their capacity to effectively teach in 21st century classrooms. In the present study, we advocate the use of a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Environment orchestrated with the instructional method, Problem-based Learning in order to support collaboration, self-directed learning, critical thinking and problem solving. Aquasi- experimental research was conducted in an academic university department. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis indicate that the integration of the fundamental principles of PBL method in a CSCL context provide an effective framework to enhance 21st century skills. 

An Organized, Comprehensive, and Security-Enabled Strategic Response to the Haiti Earthquake

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 16:53 local time, a magnitude 7.0 M(w) earthquake struck Haiti. The global humanitarian attempt to respond was swift, but poor infrastructure and emergency preparedness limited many efforts. Rapid, successful deployment of emergency medical care teams was accomplished by organizations with experience in mass disaster casualty response. Well-intentioned, but unprepared, medical teams also responded. In this report, we describe the preparation and planning process used at an academic university department of anesthesiology with no preexisting international disaster response program, after a call from an American-based nongovernmental organization operating in Haiti requested medical support. The focus of this article is the pre-deployment readiness process, and is not a post-deployment report describing the medical care provided in Haiti.A real-time qualitative assessment and systematic review of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's communications and actions relevant to the Haiti earthquake were performed. Team meetings, conference calls, and electronic mail communication pertaining to planning, decision support, equipment procurement, and actions and steps up to the day of deployment were reviewed and abstracted. Timing of key events was compiled and a response timeline for this process was developed. Interviews with returning anesthesiology members were conducted.Four days after the Haiti earthquake, Partners in Health, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, with >20 years of experience providing medical care in Haiti contacted the University of Pennsylvania Health System to request medical team support. The departments of anesthesiology, surgery, orthopedics, and nursing responded to this request with a volunteer selection process, vaccination program, and systematic development of equipment lists. World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control guidelines, the American Society of Anesthesiology Committee on Trauma and Emergency Preparedness, published articles, and in-country contacts were used to guide the preparatory process.An organized strategic response to medical needs after an international natural disaster emergency can be accomplished safely and effectively within 6 to 12 days by an academic anesthesiology department, with medical system support, in a center with no previously established response system. The value and timeliness of this response will be determined with further study. Institutions with limited experience in putting an emergency medical team into the field may be able to quickly do so when such efforts are executed in a systematic manner in coordination with a health care organization that already has support infrastructure at the site of the disaster.

Information science and scientists: JASIS, 1972-1990

This research reports the results of a bibliometric study of nine volumes of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS): 1972–1974, 1982–1984, and 1988–1990. For each full-length article, values of six variables were recorded: the year the article was published, the number of citations to the article, the funding status of the work (funded or not funded), the funding agency (if funded), the subject of the paper, and the institutional affiliation of the first author, and several hypotheses were tested. No relationship was found between whether an article was funded and the quality or utility of the article, as measured by the number of subsequent citations to the work. Funding for information science research has declined, especially at the federal levels. JASIS authors who are affiliated with schools of library and information science have the most difficulty in having their work funded, although the work produced by this group of authors is the most highly cited. While the emphasis on theoretical work has remained essentially constant over the past 20 years, the number of articles related to professional issues and related fields has increased, and the number of articles classified as applied has decreased. More JASIS authors are coming from academic departments in universities; fewer are information practitioners. Information science is developing as a discipline and moving away from its practice-oriented roots. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

American Chemical Society Directory of Graduate Research, 1989 (The ACS Committee on Professional Training)

The latest edition of this standard, biennial reference work contains a wealth of information on 683 academic departments in universities and colleges in the United States and Canada that offer bachelor's and master's curricula.

Otorhinolaryngology Including Oral Cavity,

This is an attractive effort at a new approach to organizing and presenting an overview of our specialty to medical students and physicians in other fields. It represents the product of a collaborative effort between the publisher and an academic university department to produce a new kind of textbook that embodies the concept of integrated learning processes and problem-oriented learning. The book is organized into eight categorical "parts" (the ear, the nose, etc) and each part is approached using five "concept sections" (background, history and physical examination, presentation, description, and management principles). The volume is well-illustrated, primarily with good line drawings, and there are concluding sections that provide a radiologic atlas and a color photographic atlas of clinical conditions. Each part of the text concludes with a self-test section designed to reinforce the learning activity of the students. This book should be reviewed by those who have teaching responsibilities for