The formalization of the university: rules, roots, and routes

Ramírez, Francisco O.; Christensen, Tom

doi:10.1007/s10734-012-9571-y

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“…Es llamativo que las palabras comunes más frecuentes que aparecen en la prensa relacionadas con ambos programas son mejores, calidad, excelencia y tecnología. Esta es una prueba empírica que apoya la hipótesis de estudios en países como Alemania (Krücken, 2003), Suecia (Ramirez & Christensen, 2012) y Chile (Bernasconi, 2005) en los cuales también se documentan presiones inusitadas que han cambiado las orientaciones locales de las universidades.…”

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“…El estudio de caso de la P.U. Católica de Chile de Bernasconi y Véliz (2016) muestra evidencia sobre estos efectos estructurales, aunque a estos estudios de caso habría que añadirle también la descripción de otras universidades que muestran una dialéctica entre lo local y lo global como el contraste entre la nueva lógica en la U. de Stanford y la renuencia de muchos académicos (pero no de las directivas) de la U. de Oslo de adaptar sus prácticas a los nuevos rankings (Ramirez & Christensen, 2012). Es interesante determinar qué tan distintas o similares son las estructuras administrativas en las universidades públicas y privadas para poder observar con mayor detalle hasta qué punto la retórica global es asumida, allende la naturaleza y práctica de las universidades.…”

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¿Hacia la universidad corporativa? Reformas basadas en el mercado e isomorfismo institucional en Colombia

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2017

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In this article, we analyze the new discourses on the university around two Colombian governmental programs: the student loan program Ser Pilo Paga and university rankings Mide. Although these programs can be labeled as market-based or neoliberal reforms, they have not been analyzed from a sociological perspective that discusses its relationship with changes in the idea itself of the university. We analyze the rhetoric surrounding its design and implementation through the content analysis of press articles and documents from governments and international organizations. From a neo-institutional perspective of world society theory, we find that loans have been mainly promoted by the World Bank, while rankings are directly copied from a global culture. There is also a rhetoric using the terms best, quality, excellence and technology that correspond with the global model of the entrepreneurial university. This idea contrasts, though, with terms such as equity, access, fairness and inclusion, in turn related to a discourse about social engagement that partially corresponds to the local idea of the Latin-American university. These tensions between university models where policy instruments are entangled should be further studied in other countries.

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¿Hacia la universidad corporativa? Reformas basadas en el mercado e isomorfismo institucional en Colombia

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2017

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“…This is in line with recent empirical research (cf. Ramirez & Christensen 2013), indicating that change processes are dynamic: they do not occur automatically and instrumentally, but universities are not immune to external input either (Gornitzka 1999).…”

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Not just another evaluation: a comparative study of four educational quality projects at Swedish universities

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Tertiary Education and Management

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Not just another evaluation -A comparative study of four educational quality projects at Swedish universitiesIn this study, four recent self-initiated educational quality projects at Swedish universities are compared and analysed. The aim is to contribute to an increased understanding of quality management in contemporary higher education.The projects are found to be built on similar rationales linked to accountability, reputation building and strategic management, and on similar ambitions regarding raising the status of education. Although there are links to the shared external policy context, the projects differ considerably in their actual design and implementation. This is interpreted as an active adaptation to the unique internal academic norms and cultures that exist in each university.

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“…tightening entry standards, consolidating strategic leadership) (Keith 2001;Bryman 2007;Hamlin and Patel 2015). Concomitantly, a wide body of literature originating in the neo-institutional tradition, points towards the diffusion of 'instrumental rationality' as a gold standard of institutional identity and purpose (Meyer 2000;Ramirez and Christensen 2013). The proliferation of non-academic professionals is argued to be symptomatic of the university increasingly articulating its identity as a purposive organisational actor i.e.…”

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Do non-academic professionals enhance universities’ performance? Reputation vs. organisation

Baltaru

2018

Studies in Higher Education

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Universities are increasingly engaging with non-academic professionals in facilitating performance outcomes, reaffirming themselves as purposive organisations, i.e. institutions with the ability to organise strategically in the pursuit of goals and standards. However, there is little empirical evidence for the impact of professional staff on university performance. Drawing on a sample of 100 British universities, the author assesses whether the changes in the ratio of professional staff to students (from 2003 to 2011) influence subsequent university performance. The author finds that universities that are moderately increasing their share of professional staff display higher levels of degree completion, but no significant differences can be observed in terms of research quality, good honours degrees and graduate employability. University performance is largely determined by reputation, prestigious universities performing higher in all dimensions. The findings contribute to the emerging empirical research assessing the impact of professional staff in higher education.

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The formalization of the university: rules, roots, and routes

Cited by 136 publications

References 9 publications

¿Hacia la universidad corporativa? Reformas basadas en el mercado e isomorfismo institucional en Colombia

¿Hacia la universidad corporativa? Reformas basadas en el mercado e isomorfismo institucional en Colombia

Not just another evaluation: a comparative study of four educational quality projects at Swedish universities

Do non-academic professionals enhance universities’ performance? Reputation vs. organisation

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