Higher Education Planning Research Articles

TRANSLOGICS IN THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY CURRICULA DESIGN OF HIGHER EDUCATION

We try to visualize the dynamics of curricular design and qualify the horizons that lead us to an education that can face emerging challenges, with a multidimensional prospective vision, understanding that uncertainty forces us to reconnect all the potential that human beings have for evolve education to transdisciplinary scenarios that require a new way of designing educational paths, sustained in translogical thinking, that articulate Educational Strategic Planning in Higher Education.

Challenges Facing the Planning of Higher Education in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria

Planning of Higher institutions in Nigeria and in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria has always been confronted with many challenges. This purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges facing planning of higher institutions in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. A descriptive research method was adopted for the study. The total numbers of hundred (100) respondents were selected from various agencies and ministry of education using stratified and systematic sampling technique with the use questionnaires to collect information from respondents who participated in the study. The data collected were carefully analyzed using percentages supported by chi-square to represent the raw data in a meaningful manner. The questionnaire was validated by two lecturers from University of Abuja department of educational administration. Two research questions and one hypothesis were developed for the study. Test-retest reliability was employed for the study. Result collected and analyzed revealed that there is significant relationship between planning of higher institutions and challenges. This result also showed that political influence, political instability, inadequate data, inadequate fund to plan, pressure group, inadequate planning and poor capacity of planner are the challenges facing the planning of higher institutions. The paper recommends that the government should increase the budgetary allocation for educational planning in the country.

White privilege, Black resilience: Women of color leading the academy

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, women are still grappling with white male dominance, abuses of power, and normalized tolerance of racism or discrimination. White male dominance is also prevalent in America’s education ecosystems as women are still underrepresented in academic leadership. Academic leaders who are women of color face a double bind of both gender and racial biases, both systemically and institutionally. The ways in which women of color navigate these institutional leadership pathways, the hurdles they overcome, and microaggressive behaviors they traverse are not extensively articulated in the literature. Using narrative inquiry, this study examined the lived experiences of women of color leading community colleges and revealed how their resilient attitudes, motivations, and intentions toward transforming the community college presidency upstaged the cloak of white privilege in academia. The national resurgence in women’s rights and anti-discrimination dovetails with calls from the American Council on Education and other national organizations to dramatically increase the representation of women (and women of color) as chief executives of universities. With such lofty goals, the findings of this study have implications on recruitment and retention of women of color faculty and administrators and leadership succession planning in higher education.

The emergence of private higher education in a communist state: the case of Vietnam

ABSTRACT Private higher education has become an integral part of higher education systems worldwide, including in Vietnam. However, the details explaining the private higher education sector emergence in Vietnam has hardly been addressed in the current literature. Most scholars that have mentioned this emergence in passing believed that Vietnamese private universities emerged to cater to the rising higher education demand that was unmet by its public counterparts. However, interviews with senior policy-makers, founders of private universities, and archived documents contradict this explanation: private universities emerged when demand for higher education declined sharply in Vietnam. Instead, our data point out that private higher education was part of the state-led political and economic reform. In general, we find that while the state set some uncompromised boundaries, it left ample space for private actors to take initiatives – although a deeper analysis reveals that the state itself did not have a consensus view on where the censored line ends and where the free zone starts. Throughout this article, we argue that the notions of (public) demand vs. the state’s plan for higher education should be contextualized with sufficient care in the context of a planned economy like Vietnam’s.

Strategic planning in higher education

Strategic planning in higher education

De-Colonising Planning Education? Exploring the Geographies of Urban Planning Education Networks

Urban planning as a networked field of governance can be an essential contributor for de-colonising planning education and shaping pathways to urban equality. Educating planners with the capabilities to address complex socio-economic, environmental and political processes that drive inequality requires critical engagement with multiple knowledges and urban praxes in their learning processes. However, previous research on cities of the global South has identified severe quantitative deficits, outdated pedagogies, and qualitative shortfalls in current planning education. Moreover, the political economy and pedagogic practices adopted in higher education programmes often reproduce Western-centric political imaginations of planning, which in turn reproduce urban inequality. Many educational institutions across the global South, for example, continue teaching colonial agendas and fail to recognise everyday planning practices in the way cities are built and managed. This article contributes to a better understanding of the relation between planning education and urban inequalities by critically exploring the distribution of regional and global higher education networks and their role in de-colonising planning. The analysis is based on a literature review, quantitative and qualitative data from planning and planning education networks, as well as interviews with key players within them. The article scrutinises the geography of these networks to bring to the fore issues of language, colonial legacies and the dominance of capital cities, which, among others, currently work against more plural epistemologies and praxes. Based on a better understanding of the networked field of urban planning in higher education and ongoing efforts to open up new political imaginations and methodologies, the article suggests emerging room for manoeuvre to foster planner’s capabilities to shape urban equality at scale.

Does Strategic Planning Matter?

In this Invited Commentary, the author examines the history, use, and effectiveness of strategic planning in higher education, academic medicine, and nonprofit settings. Strategic planning is a process by which an organization differentiates itself from its direct or emergent competition to achieve its mission. This form of planning is distinct from operational planning, in which an organization identifies the ways in which it will continuously improve. Many organizations employ a combination of strategic planning and operational planning but use the former term to describe their planning process without a clear definition or conceptual framework.The empirical literature across disciplines has not demonstrated that strategic planning leads to positive organizational outcomes. Over the modern history of academic medicine in the United States, strategic planning may have had limited impact on organizational outcomes because of favorable environmental circumstances that catalyzed growth and innovation regardless of planning efforts. In the current environment, organizational and departmental leaders need to define trade-offs between the various opportunities that they confront; allow for both planned and emergent strategy formulation; avoid platitudes and fluff; and focus on operational excellence.Theories from anthropology suggest that strategic plans may be more important for what they express than what they produce. Repetition of the themes and language of strategy in formal and informal discourse can have a decisive effect on the culture of the organization. Strategic planning, therefore, matters for its effect on organizational values, rituals, and ability to move the organization in new directions.

The Role of Perceived Benefits, Costs, and Probability of Success in Students’ Plans for Higher Education. A Quasi-experimental Test of Rational Choice Theory

The Role of Perceived Benefits, Costs, and Probability of Success in Students’ Plans for Higher Education. A Quasi-experimental Test of Rational Choice Theory

Tunisian Academics at the Turbulent Times of the ‘Jasmine Revolution’: Publication Challenges and Survival Strategies

This study investigates the range of publication difficulties that Tunisian scholars experience especially in post-revolution Tunisia. It also explores the strategies they have deployed in their struggle with the publication process. 12 Tunisian business and economics scholars affiliated to a Tunisian university were interviewed. The accounts attest that Tunisian academics face a litany of socio-economic difficulties which got worse in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and the ensuing social unrest. Unfavorable research surroundings included unsupportive research environment and an ad hoc state policy. Compensation strategies included working on mega open access data to fight parochialism. The study has important implications for policy making and instructional planning in Higher Education in Tunisia. It points to a generalized need for a research system overhaul to improve the research surroundings.

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ЭКОНОМИКИ ЗНАНИЙ В РЕСУРСОДОБЫВАЮЩЕМ РЕГИОНЕ: РОЛЬ ОПОРНОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА

<p>The subject of the study is the role of the flagship university in the formation of knowledge economy in a resource-extracting region. The aim of the research is to reveal the role of the flagship university in the development of a resource-extracting region towards the knowledge economy via its basic social and economic functions, defined by the urgent needs of the local community, according to the local natural and economic specifics. The research employed some elements of system analysis. The study results: the study has<br />revealed some development components, critical for innovative development of Kuzbass, which is a typical resource-extracting region, influenced by its flagship university; the role of the flagship university in the formation of knowledge economy via the definition<br />of its social and economic functions has been revealed; a belief-creative mission of university education in a knowledge-based society has been established. The results can be used in the development planning of higher education in the Kemerovo region.<br />Conclusions: 1. The critical components of regional development, which are influenced by the flagship university, embrace human resources, as well as measures to transform social infrastructure; natural resources together with ecology; cultural and demographic<br />resources of development. 2. New models of university education combine the processes of market economy and the traditional socio-cultural functions of the university, important for the socialization of the knowledge economy. 3. The social function of the flagship<br />university is due to its main traditional function of forming a modern picture of the world among students and primarily consists in creating a solid foundation for demographic growth in the region. 4. The economic function of the flagship university is, first of all, in teaching practical skills that would enable students to join the regional production and economic activities immediately after graduation</p>

高等教育政策と国の関係性 : 高等教育計画と予算を中心に(教育政策形成プロセスの変容と教育行政,I 年報フォーラム)

高等教育政策と国の関係性 : 高等教育計画と予算を中心に(教育政策形成プロセスの変容と教育行政,I 年報フォーラム)

Higher Education Savings and Planning

Funding higher education is among the critical financial decisions made by individuals and families. There are myriad options. Yet, the conventional wisdom—namely using Section 529 Plans—may not be the optimal vehicle to effectuate this goal. Therefore, this Article discusses various strategies to plan, save, and pay for higher education. It compares various savings methods including gifts, UTMA accounts, Section 529 Plans, trusts, and other vehicles. The analysis explores both tax and non-tax considerations, including the effect of different strategies on financial aid, transaction costs, investor control, income taxes, gift and estate taxes, flexibility, and creditor protection. This Article concludes that the ubiquitous Section 529 Plan may not be as effective as conventional wisdom suggests. Indeed, we argue that Section 529 Plans are optimal only when capital can be exclusively committed to education funding, which may not be the most desirable savings tactic for a wide swath of American families who need to plan for other financial needs (e.g., retirement and unforeseen medical needs).

Academic continuity planning in higher education

Crisis planning in institutions of higher learning has focused largely on emergency management, physical safety and technology recovery. While these are clearly important, many aspects of planning for continuity have largely been ignored, including planning for the post-secondary education sector’s core business, that is, the delivery of graduate and undergraduate academic programmes. Use of the term ‘academic continuity’ as a component of institutional planning is relatively new in higher education. Discussions on academic continuity have often centred on the use of technology-enhanced education and online teaching in the event of crisis or disaster affecting campuses. However, online approaches are only one aspect of academic continuity planning. Using examples of two different crisis situations encountered at a large urban university spanning three campuses, this paper presents an approach to academic continuity planning that can potentially serve as a model for other institutions.

The Tower of Babble: Mother Tongue and Multilingualism in India

The Tower of Babble: Mother Tongue and Multilingualism in India

La Enseñanza Universitaria y los Retos hacia el Futuro

La Universidad ha sido garante durante siglos, de las funciones tradicionales asociadas al progreso, a la construcción del conocimiento y a la transmisión del saber. Se ha configurado como uno de los motores del desarrollo económico de la sociedad y uno de los polos de la educación a lo largo de la vida. Hoy, las Universidades están en un proceso de transformación y de cambios radicales ya que representan una actividad transcendente, que requiere de una importante inversión de tiempo de recursos humanos y financieros, para poder adaptarse y ser competitivas en los mercados nacionales e internacionales, considerando el mundo globalizado en la cual se encuentra la educación superior.En la actualidad, la enseñanza universitaria posee unas características que la definen como el proceso educativo de enseñanza superior que tiene lugar en una institución que actúa en la búsqueda, adquisición y construcción del saber científico, así como un constante proceso intelectual crítico de esos conocimientos. Tradicionalmente, en la Universidad, como en tantas otras instituciones educativas, el docente es el que sabe y el estudiante el que debe asimilar ese saber con responsabilidad.Con la actual tendencia mundial del enfoque por competencias, se hace más complejo y exigente el proceso de planificación educativa en la educación superior y se requiere de una formación especializada en los docentes, que les permita el aprendizaje de las herramientas y procedimientos técnicos que garanticen que los planes de estudios posean un mayor grado de validez y confiabilidad en la satisfacción de las necesidades formativas.

Fostering student interest development: An engagement intervention

The detected decline in middle school students’ school engagement during the period of young adolescence is concerning. As middle school can be perceived as a time in which plans for higher education and career considerations begin to take shape, planting seeds for future aspirations certainly seems appropriate. This article draws on the philosophies of middle school student engagement and interest development to enhance the space of teaching and learning. Hidi and Reninger’s (2006) Four-Phase Interest Development Model serves as the inspiration for curricular enrichment activities and tasks that acknowledge the interests and talents among today’s middle school population. Opportunities to infuse enrichment both inside and outside of the classroom are offered on three distinct levels. Specific examples and details regarding enrichment at each of the levels are offered as a guide in the development and enactment of similar processes. This article has implications for educators and coordinators that advocate for the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents.

Nnovation in conducting writing retreats for academic staff in higher education

How do researchers and administrators in higher education plan and carry out writing retreats for academic staff? This paper presents a distinctive approach to developing creative writing retreats for academic staff in higher education. We distill lessons from our June 2016 writing retreat, which drew participants from the University of Venda and the University of Limpopo. Responding to the South African Journal of Higher Education’s invitation to “re-imagine” writing retreats, we specify the shortcomings of linear writing retreats and discuss how to enhance collaboration, participation, and leadership capacity in planning and carrying out writing retreats. We also focus on an oft-neglected yet crucial feature of retreats, follow-up. As we show, our approach offers general insights for creative designing and implementing writing retreats.

Japan\u2019s English-medium instruction initiatives and the globalization of higher education

This article analyzes a recent initiative of Japan’s Ministry of Education, which aims to internationalize higher education in Japan. The large-investment project “Top Global University Project” (TGUP) has emerged to create globally oriented universities, to increase the role of foreign languages in higher education, and to foster global human resources. The TGUP identifies 37 universities: 13 as “top global universities” intended to compete in the top 100 university world rankings and 24 “global traction universities” intended to lead the internationalization of higher education in Japan. Despite the substantial funding behind this initiative, little research has been conducted to evaluate the potential impact of this policy on language planning in higher education in Japan. This paper addresses this gap in its exploration of the TGUP, including key changes from previous internationalization policies. It then presents an analysis of publicly available documents regarding the policy, collected from all 37 of the participant universities. Findings indicate a positive departure from older policy trends and the emergence of flexible, unique forms of English language education in Japan’s universities.

Information Barriers, Social Inequality, and Plans for Higher Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Information Barriers, Social Inequality, and Plans for Higher Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Strategic Planning in Higher Education, a Need for Innovative Model

Strategic Planning in Higher Education, a Need for Innovative Model