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2 février 2014

Academic ideals are being crushed to suit private-sector style management

By Anonymous academic. If universities continue to heed the call of corporatisation, the role of the academic – as we know it – will become extinct. As an early-career lecturer in a post-1992 university, I often feel like a rare bird in an ornate cage struggling to maintain its dignity in a discount superstore filled with pets. This bird knows it could have been a proud representative of a noble lineage and chirrups dolefully as it ruffles its plumes, but the song is drowned out by the bustling sale of cheap, plastic imitation bird-objects around it. More...

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26 janvier 2014

Et si les chercheurs d’aujourd’hui étaient les dirigeants de demain ?

Blog Educpros de Jean-Charles Cailliez. J’ai trouvé intéressant de vous livrer un article de réflexion qui traite de l’émergence d’une nouvelle génération de managers issus de la recherche et qui se demande si les chercheurs peuvent devenir de bons managers ? Il est signé par Amandine BUGNICOURT (ADOC Talent Management), Catherine CHAMBON (Talents, Innovations & Cie) et Marie-Françoise MORIZUR (VIACRETIS). Ces trois auteures participent au groupe de réflexion et d’échange de pratiques « Trait d’Union » qui réunit des chercheurs et professionnels de l’accompagnement d’équipes ou de managers. Suite...

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26 janvier 2014

12 States Scrutinize Education Management Corp.’s Practices

By Nick DeSantis. The Education Management Corporation has received inquiries from a dozen states about the company’s business practices, the for-profit-college company said on Friday in a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The office of the attorney general of Pennsylvania notified the company that it would serve as the point of contact for those inquiries, the company said. More...

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13 janvier 2014

Bournemouth managers under fire over pay rises

By Holly Else. A union has attacked managers at Bournemouth University for receiving what it describes as a 30 per cent pay rise.
Six top managers at Bournemouth secured the deal, while nationally university bosses offered staff a 1 per cent pay rise. The University and College Union (UCU) said that staff have experienced a 13 per cent pay cut in real terms since 2009. UCU members have walked out twice over pay as part of a national dispute.
At the same time, the vice-chancellor of Bournemouth received a salary increase of 19 per cent, according to the university’s 2012-13 financial statements, published in December. John Vinney was paid a salary of £211,000, up from £178,000 the previous year. Professor Vinney’s overall pay package, including pension contributions, tops £244,000 - a rise of 22 per cent since he was appointed in 2010, the UCU said. More...

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23 novembre 2013

New working paper on strategic management in universities by Lise Degn

By Marielk. We are pleased to inform you about another working paper by the research group HEIK (Higher Education: Institutional dynamics and Knowledge cultures) at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in University of Oslo. The paper is written by Lise Degn (Århus University) and is titled: “Sensegiving and strategic management in HEIs: the sensemaking and sensegiving processes of top level managers“. Read more...

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17 novembre 2013

The ABC of higher education leadership

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By Maurits van Rooijen. I have never been short on ideas and opinions about higher education, but when forced to highlight my main ideas, I would select the following three realities that, in my view, will and should dominate our future debates on the topic.
Higher education and globalisation
First, and most fundamental, is something I have talked a lot about over the past 25 or so years: Higher education cannot nor should not want to be immune to globalisation. More...

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17 novembre 2013

We need a more complex model of faculty productivity

By Maureen Mancuso. In my last column, I argued that, like it or not, we as faculty members need to participate in and lead the effort to define and measure our own productivity. The alternative is to allow others to determine the tools and scales of measurement, and try to live with the inevitable distortions, oversimplifications and skewed incentives that result. The first step is to insist that productivity measurements acknowledge all three types of faculty effort: teaching, research and service. Attempts to assess productivity that do not account for all three categories will be misguided and inaccurate; worse, such unbalanced metrics will in turn create perverse incentives that undervalue and thus undermine the types of effort that are overlooked. More...

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17 novembre 2013

What keeps HR administrators up at night

By Carol Patton. What tops the list of HR challenges at your college or university? Managing soaring health care costs? Maybe it’s faculty recruitment, succession planning, or shrinking budgets. Below, HR professionals from four different schools share their chief concerns, revealing why it’s getting more difficult to get a good night’s sleep.
Overseas university
Employment issues are a concern at most schools, but one of Duke University’s key challenges is employment related to international expansion, says Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president of administration. Duke is involved in a joint venture project with the city of Kunshan and Wuhan University in China to establish Duke Kunshan University. The university will open next fall with a handful of undergraduate and graduate programs. Read more...

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16 novembre 2013

Ask the Administrator: How to Explain a Termination

By Matt Reed. A new correspondent writes
I am back on the job market after getting three years as a full-time English Instructor. At my most recent school, I was on the tenure-track, probationary status. I was informed at the end of my second year that my contract would not be renewed and when I inquired into the reason, I was just informed that I was not a good fit. Read more...

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29 octobre 2013

Seminar in Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions

UPC UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management (CUDU) invites to the "Seminar in Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions". This event will take place in Barcelona from 11 to 15 November 2013 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech (UPC)
Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions seminar, aims to promote reflection, discussion, analysis and solutions around the possible ways to get the university to meet its role as a fundamental agent for the development and progress of the people, places and countries. It is aimed at senior management of higher education institutions, both academic and administrative staff, who are part of the management teams of its institutions. The seminar organizer is the UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management (Cátedra UNESCO de Dirección Univesitaria – CUDU), a unit of UPC with the goal to support initiatives that promote enhancement and innovation of higher education and universities, following the principles of UNESCO. For more information, follow this link.

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