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Following the Path from Teaching to Research University - Increasing Knowledge Productivity (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Following the Path from Teaching to Research University - Increasing Knowledge Productivity (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The 21st century has started out with universities adhering to a
school of thought that has evolved to the point of believing in the
metamorphosis of people and society through the creation of
powerful inventions. And society seems to expect that too.
Universities around the world are experiencing an increasing
pressure to produce revolutionary ideas that can be translated into
publications, patents, business, and the like. As a way of
welcoming the third mission for universities, elite winners of this
tough game are gathering prestige, visibility, and all kind of
human and financial assets. Training and research (the first and
second missions) are no longer enough; universities are in a race
for resources expressed in rankings that tend to model the whole
higher education system. But, what about the small and middle size
universities? They are watching the game and want to be part of it.
This book is concerned with that group, especially private higher
education that is looking for ways to become visible and attract
more resources. Leadership at these institutions is becoming more
entrepreneurial every day, and following in the steps of highly
research productive schools. Changes like these do not come without
resistance from, among others, faculty members who see these shifts
as a threat to their traditional teaching mission. In short, this
wave of producing inventions has put an incredible amount of stress
on human resources and funding at smaller institutions. The book
illustrates the perceptions that professors have about the
production of knowledge and their organizational environment. This
study seeks, through a mixed-method, to unveil organizational and
personal characteristics of faculty members most related to
research productivity at 12 small to medium sized not-for-profit,
private, doctorate-granting universities in the United States of
America. As an additional contribution, the author taps into
alternative models of higher education, the implications for which
should be considered in broader society. This is a scholarly work
that is oriented to both policy makers and scholars of private
universities that are evolving from a teaching oriented culture to
a more research intense one.
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