A core position in the knowledge economy policies has been ascribed to higher education. This has enhanced the complexity of the environment in which higher education institutions operate. These deal with a wide range of pressures stemming from the State, the corporate world, the society at large and political interests, let alone those arising from the constituencies of higher education institutions (academics, students and non-academics). Institutions are expected to cope with these pressures by developing strategies involving quality management, performance and assessment, innovation, while reconfiguring the relationships between research, teaching and learning.
The core business of higher education is being reshaped, challenging institutionsâ internal life to strategically respond to the reconfiguration of their role and missions. Topics such as governance and management, strategies and strategizing, budget control, performance and assessment, quality management, local and regional innovation come to the fore front. Under Pressure: Higher Education Institutions Coping with Multiple Challenges addresses these topics by convening approaches to the understanding of the interactions between policy drivers and institutional practices in governance, funding, performance indicators, regional innovation, strategy and strategizing, quality and management, and professionals.
"You have to read the collection as a mosaic of themes, brought to us by a variety of experts from multiple countries, contexts and positions. That already makes the collection interesting." - Bruno Broucker, KU Leuven, translated from (2019) De congresbundel als interessante mozaïek, Th&ma, 4.
Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
2. Higher Education and Science in the Age of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen
âSimon Marginson>
3. Adaptive University Structures: From Theory to Practice and Back
âBarbara Sporn>
4. Governance and Management â Challenges of Today, Adapting to the Times
âS. Feyo de Azevedo>
Part 3: Changes and Challenges in Governance and Management
Part 4: Quality Management and the Relevance of Strategy
8. Strategic Quality Management â A Contribution to Autonomy: The Example of TU Darmstadt, Germany
âTina Klug>
9. Innovativeness of Higher Education Institutions: Preconditions for the Development of Cooperative Innovations
âCindy Konen>
10. Internal Quality Assurance
âMaria J. Manatos, Sónia Cardoso, Maria J. Rosa and Teresa Carvalho>
Part 5: Students and the Effectiveness of Learning
11. Grades as a Measure of Studentsâ Learning Outcome
âMagnus Strand Hauge>
12. The Emerging Differential Tuition Era among U.S. Public Universites
âGregory c. Wolniak, Casey E. George and Glen R. Nelson>
Part 6: The Role of Higher Education in Regional Innovation
13. The Institutional Environment and Organisational Challenges of Universtitiesâ Regional Engagement
âVerena Radinger-Peer>
14. Universitiesâ Role in Regional Innovation Reconsidered: Looking at the Bottom of the Iceberg
âJürgen Janger>
All interested in higher education, with a special emphasis on institutional analysis, governance, management, funding, and innovation.