A content analysis of top-ranked universities’ mission statements from five global regions

Bayrak, Tuncay

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2019.102130

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“…In contrast, the search for official documents from the national public policy repositories resulted in fewer search term groups (9), yet it yielded twice as many documents (38). We found a few overlapping documents across the original search, the complementary search in international and national public policy repositories.…”

Section: Agrobiodiversitymentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Searching manually for agrobiodiversity related terms through all potentially relevant official documents available in a country would be very time-intensive and prone to human error. The application of text mining allows for a rapid systematic and comprehensive exploration of a large amount of unstructured text-based sources [38]. The Agrobiodiversity Index method for determining commitment levels, from retrieving official documents to assigning scores to individual sentences, can be applied to a single country in a comparatively short period of time.…”

Section: Semi and Fully Automated Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use

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Capturing countries’ commitments for measuring and monitoring progress towards certain goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), remains underexplored. The Agrobiodiversity Index bridges this gap by using text mining techniques to quantify countries’ commitments towards safeguarding and using agrobiodiversity for healthy diets, sustainable agriculture, and effective genetic resource management. The Index extracts potentially relevant sections of official documents, followed by manual sifting and scoring to identify agrobiodiversity-related commitments and assign scores. Our aim is to present the text mining methodology used in the Agrobiodiversity Index and the calculated commitments scores for nine countries while identifying methodological improvements to strengthen it. Our results reveal that levels of commitment towards using and protecting agrobiodiversity vary between countries, with most showing the strongest commitments to enhancing agrobiodiversity for genetic resource management followed by healthy diets. No commitments were found in any country related to some specific themes including varietal diversity, seed diversity, and functional diversity. The revised text mining methodology can be used for benchmarking, learning, and improving policies to enable conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. This low-cost, rapid, remotely applicable approach to capture and analyse policy commitments can be readily applied for tracking progress towards meeting other sustainability objectives.

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Section: Agrobiodiversitymentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Semi and Fully Automated Methodologiesmentioning

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Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use

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“…The availability of vision and mission is vital in determining the existence of an organization and the setting of its goals (Ahman, 2020). Like other organizations, higher education institutions should define their strategic plans in the form of a mission statement to proclaim their objectives and strategies (Bayrak, 2020). As such, the vision of Ar-Raniry University is to become a university that excels in the development and integration of Islamic sciences, science, technology, and the arts (UIN Ar-Raniry, 2019).…”

Section: Literature Review the Importance Of Strategic Plans For Highmentioning

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Identifying Strategic Issues for Lecturer Development at the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University Banda Aceh, Indonesia

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Patimah

Fahri

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Rapid external changes demanded that the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia reformulate a strategic plan for its lecturer development that is appropriate and relevant to the current time and situation. This study aims to explore the steps taken by the university in identifying strategic issues as guidelines for the formulation of its lecturer development strategy. Using the qualitative case study approach, the data for the current study were collected via semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Six informants from the university’s top management were purposively selected for the interviews. The interview data were then compared and analyzed with relevant document reviews to finally draw conclusions on the steps taken. The findings revealed that several strategic issues were considered to inform the steps taken in formulating a strategic plan to develop lecturer competency at the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. The steps included revitalizing university management, improving university policy development, utilizing the paradigm of scientific development, and promoting local wisdom of Acehnese people.

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“…The Latin American countries have a tradition of disseminating knowledge to surrounding communities and organizations [10], especially through publications (e.g., [11][12][13]). Papers including the keywords "sustainable development", "education for sustainable development", "social responsibility", and "social innovation" have increased greatly since 2010 [14,15].…”

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Contribution of Higher Education Institutions to Social Innovation: Practices in Two Southern European Universities

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The interactions between the higher education sector and society and industry have been attracting increased attention in terms of ways to develop social innovation solutions to societal problems. Despite calls from politicians and the existence of some guidelines, we know little about how higher education could incorporate social innovation activities into its structure and missions. This study examines some practice experiences in two southern European public universities in Portugal and Spain. We show that the third mission of universities, which includes social innovation, is both linked to the first two missions of teaching and research, depending on the university’s historical and social context. The high dependence of higher education institutions on economic returns increases the importance of political action to drive the development of social innovation activities. This conditioning factor seems to be intrinsic to some of the barriers that have been identified, such as lack of legitimization and recognition of social innovation practices at the formal governmental level.

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A content analysis of top-ranked universities’ mission statements from five global regions

Cited by 43 publications

References 16 publications

Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use

Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use

Identifying Strategic Issues for Lecturer Development at the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Contribution of Higher Education Institutions to Social Innovation: Practices in Two Southern European Universities

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