Universities as Political Institutions

Higher Education Institutions in the Middle of Academic, Economic and Social Pressures
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42256-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 539 g

Reihe: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series

Universities can be viewed and studied as political institutions, especially considering that they sit at the crossroads of social, cultural, and economic pressures. The internal and external environment of higher education brings with it multiple and complex relationships as well as power struggles. Within these contested political spaces, there are phenomena to be studied.


While the field of higher education draws from a multitude of disciplines, some scholars argue that only recently has scholarship focused on the political perspectives of higher education. To better understand the politics and policies of higher education, Universities as Political Institutions illuminates a variety of ways that researchers view and study universities as a political institution, from considering the national and international political pressures shaping higher education to the analysis of responses and political action from within the ivory tower.

The 2017 annual CHER conference in Jyväskylä (Finland) brought together 213 scholars from 30 countries. This book includes a selection of papers and keynote presentations from this conference. The thematic approach of the book reflects the 2017 conference theme: "Universities as Political Institutions – Higher Education Institutions in the Middle of Academic, Economic, and Social Pressures". The theme focused on multiple and often complex relations and relationships, internal and external, to higher education institutions. In this context, "political" refers not only to definitions, uses, and users of power but more broadly to a variety of relationships among different actors and agencies responsible for making, executing, or resisting decisions concerning higher education institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weimer, Leasa

Nokkala, Terhi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Jussi Välimaa

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Leasa Weimer and Terhi Nokkala

PART 1: Geo-Political Influences

1 Powershift: Universities and the Seismic Winds of Change

Susan L. Robertson

2 The Rise of Nationalism: The Influence of Populist Discourses on International Student Mobility and Migration in the UK and US

Leasa Weimer and Aliandra Barlete

3 Pursuing Ideal Partnerships: The Discourse of Instrumentalism in the Policies and Practices of Sino-Foreign Higher Education Cooperation

Heather Cockayne, Jie Gao and Miguel Antonio Lim

4 The Challenges of Brexit: UK Higher Education Governing Councils Responding to Sudden Change

Heather Eggins

PART 2: Political Analysis, Action and Power

5 Keynote Conversation: Advancing the Conversation on the Politics of Higher Education

Brian Pusser and Imanol Ordorika

6 Universitas Reformata Semper Reformanda: A Political Parallelogram of Continual University Reform

Susanne Lohmann

7 Student Protests and Higher Education Transformation: A South African Case Study

Magda Fourie-Malherbe and Anneke Müller

8 University Third Mission as an Organisational and Political Field: Evidence from Three Case Studies in Italy

Giacomo Balduzzi and Massimiliano Vaira

9 Teaching Staff in Non-University Higher Education in Japan: Career Experience, Competencies and Identities

Yuki Inenaga and Keiichi Yoshimoto

PART 3: Societal Values, National Regimes and Higher Education

10 Inclusion and Fairness in Access to Higher Education: Theoretical Distinctions, Measurement and Patterns of Interaction

Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

11 Academic Career, Mobility and the National Gender Regimes in Switzerland and Finland

Terhi Nokkala, Pierre Bataille, Taru Siekkinen and Gaële Goastellec

12 The Applicability of Two Graduate Employability Frameworks: How Possession, Position, Integration and Engagement Shape Graduate Employability

Martina Gaisch, Victoria Rammer, Silke Preymann, Stefanie Sterrer and Regina Aichinger

13 Universities in the Complex Setting of the West Bank: Entrepreneurial or Engaged?

Huub L. M. Mudde

Über Autor(innen)

Leasa Weimer, PhD (2013), University of Georgia, USA, is Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Assistant Director of Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives at Fulbright Finland Foundation. She has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, policy papers, and edited six books.

Terhi Nokkala, PhD (2007), Tampere University, is Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. She is an internationally published scholar, with editorial duties at European Journal of Higher Education and Internationalisation of Higher Education – Developments in the European Higher Education Area and Worldwide.