University Governance System Research Articles

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University governance is a significant and encompassing issue, involving various activities such as system management, strategic management, training management, science and technology management, human resource management, financial management, and facility management. A good university governance system will inspire and encourage the academic passion of staff, lecturers, and students, creating a rich intellectual capital that enhances a university's competitive advantage. Effective university governance in the context of autonomy helps universities optimize resources to improve operational efficiency, enabling them to fulfill their mission of providing high-quality human resources for the labor market, thereby contributing to economic growth and national development. Using the literature review method, this article aims to clarify the theoretical basis and analyze international experiences in university governance, drawing some useful implications for improving the university governance model toward autonomy in Vietnam.

Steering at a distance: research centre funding schemes as instruments for university change

Abstract In addition to promoting reforms, governments foster change in university systems through funding, competition, and new policy instruments. Little research has been conducted on how research centre funding schemes support organizational changes in universities and on their institutional and policy barriers. This article addresses the research centre funding schemes implemented by the regional government of Galicia (Spain) in 2016. The approach is observational and based on documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with key actors. The regional government sought to encourage organizational differentiation by increasing the autonomy of centres inside the universities and to enhance strategic research agendas, reinforcing the scientific authority of the centres’ directors. We found that the design and operation of the instrument in the context of the existing university governance system, and the interaction with other funding instruments within the policy mix, may create barriers that hinder the effectiveness of the funding scheme.

Analysis of the Current Status and Enhancement Strategies for University Party Committee Supervision and Administration Work in the New Era

This research delves into the current circumstances and challenges faced by supervision and administration work in Chinese universities. It begins by identifying key issues such as the insufficient independence in the organization of supervision bodies, unclear division of personnel roles, and inadequate use of digital tools. Further analysis uncovers the fundamental causes behind the ineffectiveness of supervision work, notably the mismatch between supervision models and university characteristics, the so-called "Supervision Paradox" (the negative correlation between supervision frequency and governance effectiveness), and a shortfall in digital tools application. To tackle these challenges, the paper proposes effective strategies, including balancing the academic and administrative elements of the supervision system, utilizing various approaches to alleviate workload and boost efficiency, and advancing the digital transformation of supervision activities, all aimed at enhancing the modernization of university governance systems and capabilities.

The Survey Results on Parenting Styles and High School Students’ Interest in Learning in Hanoi

The study examines teacher-respondents' perceptions of the shared University Governance System and its impact on their collaborative work environment in a higher education institution. A quantitative correlational research design was used, with 132 teachers in Tangshan, China, using a structured questionnaire. The results showed an inverse relationship between shared university leadership and collaborative work environment, with an R-value of -.199, suggesting an inverse relationship. However, the significance value was.022, suggesting other factors may also influence perceptions about the collaborative work environment.

Shared University Leadership and Collaborative Work Environment at a Selected University in Tangshan, China

The study examines teacher-respondents' perceptions of the shared University Governance System and its impact on their collaborative work environment in a higher education institution. A quantitative correlational research design was used, with 132 teachers in Tangshan, China, using a structured questionnaire. The results showed an inverse relationship between shared university leadership and collaborative work environment, with an R-value of -.199, suggesting an inverse relationship. However, the significance value was.022, suggesting other factors may also influence perceptions about the collaborative work environment.

The Influence of Informal Organizations on the Construction of Aesthetic Education in Universities from the Perspective of Group Mechanics

With the development of society and the overall development of human needs, the state has proposed that the education system should form a balanced situation of “five educations”. In recent years, the work of aesthetic education has been greatly developed in colleges and universities, which cannot be achieved without the joint efforts of multiple subjects. The role of informal organizations in higher education organizations in the construction of aesthetic education cannot be ignored. Informal organizations are formed on the basis of the emotions, hobbies and interests of their members. The concept of human-centred aesthetic education urgently requires the dissemination and communication of informal organizations. This paper thus analyses how informal organizations influence the promotion of aesthetic education in universities based on Kurt Lewin’s theory of group mechanics, aiming to provide universities with a new perspective to study the management of university education, deepen the process of university governance system and governance capacity, and then promote the overall high-quality development of universities.

Development and Validation of a University Governance Index for the Higher Educational Institutions in Oman

AbstractThis article aims to develop an index to measure the “university governance” construct based on the data collected using two surveys. This index will assess the corporate governance at the higher education institutions (HEIs) in Oman. Most HEIs do not have an effective mechanism to determine the effectiveness of the university governance system. The article aims to develop a university governance index (UGI), drawing the data from two surveys, the Governance Survey and the Management Survey, conducted at the University of Buraimi, Oman. The survey was administered to fifteen members, including the board of trustees, board of directors, and executive management. In contrast, the management survey was administered to forty-five managers and staff of the university. The first survey included Likert and binary items, whereas the second had only Likert items. The reliabilities of constructs with Likert items were evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha (α), and some of the constructs with binary items were evaluated using Kuder-Richarson 20 (kr20). After necessary modifications, an acceptable level of reliability was achieved in each construct. To develop a UGI, the authors assumed an unknown deserving value for UGI and estimated it using the observed values of the survey responses. In addition, to evaluate the index, the authors generated data from distributions with known parameters. Then, the sample index’s possible values were compared with the population index’s actual value and calculated based on the known parameters. The bias and the root mean squared error of the estimator were evaluated using generated data in 1,000 simulations and were found to be small. The authors found that the university governance questionnaires developed for assessing the university governance at higher educational institutions in Oman provide reliable data. In addition, the method of calculating the index also seems to produce a fairly accurate measure of this construct. HEIs can use this index to determine the effectiveness of the university governance system. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first empirical attempt at developing a UGI in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. This index will assist higher education institutions in assessing the level of university governance at the institution and plan for improvement accordingly.

On the Legal Construction of Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of University Governance

In the current stage of ideological and political education in the legal system construction process, after a period of time to improve and improve, although made certain achievements, but there are also a series of problems such as imperfect structure system, unreasonable evaluation system and incomplete coverage of the main body. In the context of promoting the modernization of the governance system and capacity, it is necessary to carry out the construction of the rule of law in the ideological and political education of colleges and universities from the perspective of university governance, taking the premise, basis, theme and direction of University Governance as the basis of legal construction of ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Through the establishment of a sound legal system, the implementation of the spirit of the rule of law, building a legal atmosphere and a series of methods to do a good job in the ideological and political education of the legal system. To find out the development direction of the legal system construction of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, and to promote the modernization development of university governance system and governance capability. In this paper, first of all, the relevant contents and functions of university governance are expounded, and the measures for the legal construction of ideological and political education in universities are put forward in the perspective of university governance.

Using the (University Governance Screening Modified Card) to Evaluating the Level of Governance in Iraqi Universities: A Field Study at the Basra University

Education in general and university education in particular play a pivotal role in educational field. Universities play a major role in societies in general, because they participate directly to generation of new knowledge, and because they educate and shape the young generation to be leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and professionals in all fields of knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful when adopting the university governance system in Iraqi universities, in a way that helps to use all the principles and requirements of university governance in the correct way when implementing. The (university governance screening card) is the most suitable for assessing the reality of university governance, and for revealing the details required by the implementation process the purpose of the research paper is to explore the actual reality of the level of governance implementation in the Iraqi University in comparison with the five dimensions of the university governance screening modified card. The University of Basra was chosen as a field of study. The community was identified with highly qualified and experienced teachers. For data collection purposes, a checklist consisting of a three-point scale was used. To measure the level of opinions of the sample members on each clause or dimension, the evaluation revealed that Basra University needed many procedures’ to build an integrated governance system.

How to Strengthen the Party’s Overall Leadership in the High-Quality Development of Higher Education

Combing the academic research, we can find that the research on the high- quality development of higher education rarely involves the Party’s overall leadership in colleges and universities. At present, the overall leadership of the Party in colleges and universities has not been fully implemented. The main problems are the lagging development of Party building in colleges and universities, the lack of willingness and ability to serve the major strategic layout of the Party and the state, the incomplete implementation of the Party’s educational policies, the failure of the university governance system to fully implement the Party’s leadership, and the implementation of the Party’s leadership in the evaluation system of higher education. The main reasons for these problems can be attributed to the dual structure of university management system, irrational competition of universities, and imperfect higher education system and regulations. Therefore, it is suggested to improve the Party building work system and enhance the leadership of the Party organizations in colleges and universities;deepen education reform and enhance the service of higher education; improve the system of moral education and strengthen the responsibility of higher education; improve the governance system of colleges and universities, and enhance the endogenous force of high-quality development of higher education; reform the education evaluation system and enhance the incentive force of high-quality development of higher education.

Research on Students' Participation Right in Internal Governance of Universities

The state is vigorously promoting the modernization of educational governance ability and governance level and building a high-level university. Students are the basis for the survival and development of the university. Paying attention to students' participation right is the need to adapt to the development of democratic society and promote the modernization of internal governance of the university. The development history of students' participation right has experienced a long process. It is also a key point of the internal reform of colleges and universities and a legal right allocation to balance various stakeholders. Today, with the popularization of higher education, we should pay attention to students' participation right and promote the modernization of university governance system and governance ability.

X-ray of Spanish universities: management, structure, educational programmes and budgets (Radiografía de las universidades españolas: gestión, estructura, programas formativos y presupuestos)

ABSTRACT This empirical study analyses the current status of Spanish universities from three vantage points: legal, economic and academic management. We use the content analysis technique to analyse all the universities that belong to CRUE (Conferencia de Rectors de las Universidades Españolas / Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities) from these three vantage points in order to inquire into some of the structural variables that affect the way these universities operate: people (rectors), programmes (contents) and budgets (economics and financing). The study finds that the leaders of Spanish universities are primarily men educated in the sciences and health sciences, and that there is notable margin for improvement in the Spanish university governance system.

The Reconstruction of the University Academic Committee System and Government Regulation

The reconstitution of the academic committee system is an important part of the construction of a modern university system in China. Through analysis of policy documents, it is evident that, in the historical context of the last half century or more, whenever fundamental changes have been made to systems related to academic power, these have always been regarded as a policy issue, experiencing vicissitudes in response to the political environment; in the contemporary context, reforms have promoted a rational understanding of system reconstruction, and the introduction of government regulation has provided legitimacy for system reconstruction. Our survey found that the practical circumstances of efforts for reconstructing of the academic committee system still exhibit more nominality than substance, while the effectiveness of government regulation is limited. We therefore believe that it is necessary to seize the opportunity to forward system reconstruction by further specifying the status of academic committees within the university governance system, clarifying the relationships between agents of power, placing emphasis on unity between government regulations and university reforms, and giving attention to the coherence of reconstruction as well as institutional characteristics.

Power landscapes within Chinese universities: a three-dimensional discourse analysis of university statutes

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the power landscapes within Chinese universities, against the larger backdrop of China’s attempt to build modern university governance systems for developing world-class universities. Drawing upon Fairclough’s three-dimensional conceptions of discourse and informed by Pierre Bourdieu’s key conceptual notions of field and capital, the paper provides a critical discourse analysis of statutes of 10 top Chinese universities in terms of their texts, discursive practices and social practices and thus analyses existing power relations. The statute texts construct a hierarchical field of power by wording the ‘core’ stakeholder Party Committee as the leadership, using content sequence as a measure of power ranking, and including only limited stakeholders in the joint governance mechanism. Regarding discursive practices, faculty members’ participation in the formulation and distribution of university statutes is insufficient. The social practices identify with statute texts in terms of power relationships between Party Committee members, administrators and academics.

Experience in research management in the united kingdom universities: philosophical and analytical approach

Understanding the need to strengthen the research component in the activities of domestic universities for the full integration of Ukraine into the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area encourages the search for modern research management mechanisms. An analysis of the experience of research management in the universities of the United Kingdom - one of the leading countries of higher education in accordance with international ratings - suggests that an effective research management mechanism is research governance as part of a university governance system. Despite the fact that, according to European experts, university governance has a direct impact on the results of research to date in national educational science, there is still no holistic analysis of the mechanisms of research governance in the countries of higher education leaders in the domestic educational science. The purpose of the article is to identify trends in research management in universities based on the analysis of UK experience. To achieve this goal, methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization of scientific and Internet sources were used, which enabled to reveal the peculiarities of research management in the universities of the United Kingdom. The application of the generalization method made it possible to draw conclusions about the results of the study. The article substantiates the relevance of the modernization of research management systems in domestic universities. The experience of research management through the development and use of the framework for research governance in the United Kingdom universities has been analyzed. The composition and description of the elements of the framework of research governance are analyzed, their generalized characteristics are presented. Main features of the use of the framework for research governance in universities in the United Kingdom are characterized, a list of key documents and key actors (participants) of research governance is given.

Strategy to Improve Quality of Higher Education Institution Based on AUN-QA Standard

Purpose – The objectives of this research are (1) to describe and analyze the gap between Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) academic and management resource and ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) standard; (2) to describe and analyze the strategy of quality improvement of Universitas Negeri Semarang based on AUN-QA Criteria.
 Methodology – This research is conducted with qualitative approach combine with statistical analysis. The respondent in this paper is management positions at UNNES. Data were collected by interview, observation, documents study and questionnaire. Data analysis was performed with interactive analysis model and descriptive statistical analysis.
 Findings – The results revealed that the academic and management resources at Semarang State University are good and potential to become a world class university. Quality culture in the implementation of tridharma (education, research and community service) that developed at Semarang State University has been oriented to higher education continuous quality improvement. Therefore, several strategies for improving the quality of higher education that must be implemented in order to achieve AUN-QA certification are: (1) changing mindset and work culture towards international standard, (2) re-structuring of human resource management through education and training, (3) re-structuring of university governance system, (4) strengthening regional and international networking, and (5) strengthening internal controls mechanism.
 Significance – These findings can contribute to universities that are preparing to become a world class university to develop a holistic quality assurance system by using the AUN-QA framework reference.

Peningkatan Mutu Perguruan Tinggi Kegamaan Islam Melalui Penyusunan Manajemen Strategis Dengan Pendekatan Balanced Scorecard: Studi Kasus di STAI Sangatta Kutai Timur

College has an important role in nation building. Therefore, university governance systems need to get serious attention and appropriate management touches. One of the modern management concepts that can be used is balanced scorecard, which is expected to improve the quality of the institution. This research uses qualitative approach of case study type with research setting at STAIS Sangatta Kutai Timur. The results showed that; improvement of education quality in STAIS Sangatta Kutai Timur is done through; 1) visionary leadership, 2) internal and external environmental analysis done with SWOT analysis, 3) to make quality as "Spirit" in every organizational activity by implementing quality-based, oriented management; a) Costumer Satisfaction, b) continous improvement, c) full involvement of the academic community, d) continous improvement. In order to improve the quality of education with Balanced Scorecard approach, STAIS Sangatta Kutai Timur focuses on four perspectives, namely; financial perspective, costumer perspectives, internal perspectives and development perspectives of development and growth are very effective in improving the quality of education. From several Balanced Scorecard perspectives applied in STAIS Sangatta Kutai Timur, the most dominant internal perspective on the effectiveness of quality improvement of education, followed by learning and growth perspective, costumer and finansial.

Who controls the board in non-profit organizations? The case of private higher education institutions in Colombia

How should the governance system in a non-membership non-profit organization be designed? This organizational form has no shareholders; instead, donors provide funds. Thus, at the organizational level, the board of directors could have all the power. Under this legal form, who controls the board? If too powerful, boards could misuse resources or distract the organization from its foundational goals. We examine the case of private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Colombia and the balance of power in university governance systems which feature this organizational form. Most HEIs in our sample have a kind of assembly of representatives as the governance body with the highest authority and able to appoint and control the board. We specifically discuss the assemblies’ reason for being, structure, and functions in private HEIs in Colombia. We analyze a total of 204 HEI governance structures and find governance arrangements with the characteristics of an assembly of representatives in 154 (75.9%). Our analysis highlights features in some of these governance bodies that could lead to overly powerful assemblies (e.g., founder donors with tenure for life). Clearly, a proper balance of power is required to avoid rent-seeking behaviors or the pursuit of harmful private non-monetary benefits from assembly members as well as boards.

Entrepreneurial Universities Index: A Scale Development Study

The reflections of the understanding of neo-liberal education on higher education are observed to have transformed universities into student centered institutions aiming for an education consistent with global development, generating an entrepreneurial and creative human resource and accordingly developing consistent education programs. In this context, it attracts attention that measurements are conducted to determine whether universities have an entrepreneurial structure. Although these measurements have various objectives, the primary aim is to constitute a competitive, entrepreneurial and innovative university governance system that meets the expectations of all stakeholders and to maintain the development of this system. The presence of different measurement tools in this regard would be scientifically useful. Based on this view, the aim of this study is to develop a new index regarding university entrepreneurship. At the scale development stage, the Content Validity Index study, which is the first phase of the scale development process consisting of three phases and ten steps, was performed. At the first stage, the statements that could be included in the measurement tool were created in accordance with the literature and the opinions of experts. The 145 statements composed at this stage were revised in terms of clearness and repetitions, and a draft form consisting of 52 items was obtained. This draft was sent to experts from the field and their opinions were asked. Following the expert opinions, the Content Validity Index (CVI) study was conducted and it was determined that 50 items were left on the candidate scale.

University Governance: Risk Management Approach

It is of paramount difficulty to capture the governance and management arrangements of a higher education institution. There is no unified model of university governance system. University governance depends on the type of property ownership, its management paradigm, and its set of goals and objectives. Under the auspices of internationalization of higher education and the fierce competition after the prevalence of higher education privatization، and the move of public higher education institutions to self-finance sustainability, the proposal for tracing out a system of university governance requires the detection of three elements: Governance of academics, business governance، and corporate governance. The first element treats the management of academic affairs. Business governance manages the measurement of the institution performance, while corporate governance manages the development of the institution organizational culture. The paper aims at analyzing the university governance of an Arab higher education institution, where the higher education system is witnessing reform policies in face of rising higher education globalization and a fierce competition in the higher education industry. The analysis is taken within a risk management approach.