A New Instrument to Assess Community Engagement in Universitiesâ Strategic Planning

FlÃ¡via Colus; Ana Maria Carneiro

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004740990_003

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Despite the growing importance attributed to universitiesâ engagement with society, there is still a need to understand how this topic is incorporated into universitiesâ planning and evaluation mechanisms. This chapter presents a new tool for assessing how universities include societal engagement in their institutional planning. The tool was developed based on the following models: the New Flagship University (Douglass, 2016), the Civic University (Goddard, Hazelkorn & Vallance, 2016), the Responsible University (SÃ¸rensen, Geschwind, Kekale & Pinheiro, 2019), and the Entrepreneurial University (Clark, 1998; Etzkowitz, 1983). It was developed as an evaluation rubric, with 14 themes, and 4 different grades that can be attributed to each theme, depending on how present it is in the institutional planning documents.

The tool was piloted through the analysis of the Institutional Development Plans (IDPâs) of 13 Brazilian federal universities. Through this application, it was possible to analyse the presence of different themes in the documents reviewed, as well as conduct an institution-specific analysis.

The thematic analysis revealed that, out of the 14 themes in the instrument, âAccess and Retentionâ and âInnovation and Entrepreneurshipâ were highly prevalent in the planning of the universities analysed, while themes such as âScientific Disseminationâ and âExtension Coursesâ appeared less frequently and in less detail. The institution-specific analysis allowed the 13 universities to be categorised into four groups according to the level of societal engagement activities present in their IDPâs, ranging from very high to low presence.

It is hoped that this chapter contributes to the discussion on how universities can plan for societal engagement activities and that the tool may support universitiesâ institutional learning.

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Transcending Boundaries

For a Sustainable Future of Higher Education

Series:Â Higher Education: Linking Research, Policy and Practice, Volume: 6

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004740990

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 16 May 2025

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