Under pressure : higher education institutions coping with multiple challenges / edited by Pedro N. Teixeira, Amélia Veiga, Maria J. Rosa and António Magalhães.

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Introduction -- Higher education institutions dealing with multiple challenges / Pedro Teixeira, Antonio Magalhaes, Amelia Veiga and Maria Joao Rosa -- Setting the stage -- Higher education and science in the age of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen / Simon Marginson -- Adaptive university structures : from theory to practice and back / Barbara Sporn -- Governance and management : challenges of today, adapting To the times / S. Feyo de Azevedo -- Changes and challenges in governance and management -- Human resource development for junior researchers in Germany : stocktaking And prospects / Rene Krempkow and Mathias Winde -- Shadows of hierarchy : managerial-administrative relationships within universities under pressure / Ton Kallenberg -- Higher education institutions responding to issues : gender-based violence on campus / Melindy Brown, James Williams and David Kane -- Quality management and the relevance of strategy -- Strategic quality management : a contribution to autonomy : the example of TU Darmstadt, Germany / Tina Klug -- Innovativeness of higher education institutions : preconditions for te development of cooperative innovations / Cindy Konen -- Internal quality assurance : a political process challenging academics' professionalism? / Maria J. Manatos, Sonia Cardoso, Maria J. Rosa and Teresa Carvalho -- Students and the effectiveness of learning -- Grades as a measure of students' learning outcome / Magnus Strand Hauge -- The emerging differential tuition era among U.S. public universites / Gregory c. Wolniak, Casey E. George and Glen R. Nelson -- The role of higher education in regional innovation -- The institutional environment and organisational challenges of universtities' regional engagement / Verena Radinger-Peer -- Universities' role in regional innovation reconsidered : looking at the bottom of the iceberg / Jurgen Janger.

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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 institutions' 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.

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