Accountability, Affordability, Access: A Review of the Recent Trends in Higher Education Policy Research

Abstract

The following research note surveys the most recent literature published in the past two years on higher education policy and politics in the United States. We identify three prominent themes in the literature including research on accountability, affordability, and issues concerning access and equity. We observe that there has been increased attention paid to theories of politics by those who study higher education, which has played a vital role in pushing the boundaries of education research to help begin answering many of the field's most complex and multi-dimensional questions. This theoretical development has allowed education policy scholars to better understand why various policies are adopted, how they change over time, which groups benefit, and how institutions are affected by changes in the economic and political landscape.

"Engagement" y bienestar en el profesorado universitario. Hacia la delimitación de indicadores evaluativos

“…Las nuevas condiciones laborales y organizativas, insertas en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, el incremento de las exigencias profesionales, la universalización de la educación, la denominada accountability (Conner y Rabovsky, 2011), el escaso reconocimiento social, la falta o disminución de recursos, la carencia o insuficiencia de incentivos y reconocimientos, los desajustes entre desempeños propios de la profesión, etc., configuran escenarios de desgaste emocional en el profesorado universitario que, en no pocos casos, le conducen a una crisis identitaria, sustentada en el desequilibrio provocado por la falta de concordancia entre el proyecto de identidad de cada profesor y la identidad atribuida socialmente, que no resulta fácil afrontar de modo óptimo.…”

A Study on Knowledge Management Capabilities towards New Product Innovation Type and Development Performance of Chinese Businesses

“…It was also discovered that knowledge creation capabilities and product innovation type could positively affect new product development performance. Conner and Rabovsky (2011) regarded knowledge management capabilities as a key factor in organizational innovation and discovered the same opinions of several researchers in the literature review. Based on the dimensions for knowledge management capabilities proposed by Tohidi and Jabbari (2012), hypothesis research was further proceeded to verify the relationship between knowledge acquisition, knowledge transformation, knowledge application in knowledge management and organizational innovation.…”

2014 Public Policy Yearbook: Recent Developments in Public Policy Research

“…Each year we solicit recommendations for advanced graduate students, working under the guidance of (and often as co‐authors with) leading public policy scholars to write the review articles. Previous essays covered topics including: agenda‐setting (Pump, ), policy analysis (Carlson, ), policy history (deLeon & Gallagher, ), policy process theories (Nowlin, ), public opinion (Mullinix, ), defense and security (Ripberger, ), education policy (Conner & Rabovsky, ), governance (Robichau, ), comparative public policy (Gupta, ), economic policy (Pump, ), environmental policy (Niles & Lubell, ), health policy (Haeder, ), social policy (Guzman, Pirog, & Seefeldt, ), law and public policy (Kreis & Christensen, ), and international relations and policy (Redd & Mintz, ). This year's special issue includes the first of our review articles to be in the second iteration for their theoretical issue areas in the Yearbook .…”