Global University Rankings and the Mediatization of Higher Education

Stack, Michelle

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“…The contemporary period from the late 1990s onward is marked by mass faculty retirement and replacement, notable changes to policies regarding faculty mandatory retirement (Worswick ), revisions to the Canadian First Policy guidelines (Tremblay, Hardwick, and O'Neill ), further entrenchment of internationalization strategies (Gingras ), and the emergence of global university rankings as powerful verticalizing technologies (Stack ). This move toward internationalization is described by Gingras () as the new dominant rhetoric that has come to equate “excellence” with “international,” a trend tending to favor the hiring of foreign scholars.…”

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“…Many others, however, are skeptical. As research‐intensive schools in Canada engage further in the global quest for scientific “excellence” (Gingras ; Stack ) and interest from international “post‐docs and junior faculty right through to mid‐career, to truly established stars who want to move here” (Blackwell ) continues to increase, the degree to which professorial positions will be filled by domestic appointments remains to be seen. While this wave of interest from foreign talent, aligned with the Federal government science policy, might be due to political instability in the United Kingdom and the United States, the current situation recalls many of the anxieties shared by Canadian academics during a pivotal moment in the postwar history of the country's academic field: the Canadianization Movement.…”

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Replacing the Canadianization Generation: An Examination of Faculty Composition from 1977 through 2017

Lachapelle

Burnett

2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Amid growing numbers of doctoral graduates entering an increasingly competitive global academic job market, concerns about equity in the hiring process and the value of the Canadian Ph.D. are mounting. Grounded within the historical context of the Canadianization Movement, we examine the doctoral credentials of 4,934 U15 social science faculty between 1977 and 2017 to understand the ebb and flow of incoming and outgoing faculty across the country's academic field. Our trend analyses reveal an overall increase in the proportion of Canadian-trained faculty hires with the noted exceptions of Canada's top three universities who display a strong presence of high-status American-trained faculty throughout. Results from the contemporary period, between 1997 and 2017, reveal a time of retirement during which outgoing Canadian-trained faculty are replaced with increasing proportions of American-trained academics.

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Replacing the Canadianization Generation: An Examination of Faculty Composition from 1977 through 2017

Lachapelle

Burnett

2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…The academic community has only recently begun to stage a fight-back against rankings-obsessed managerialism (Stack, 2016;Post & Chou, 2016). Although there are promising signs that the most corrosive effects have been effectively challenged, the power to control academic structures often lies in the hands of governments or university management who remain convinced of the value of rankings as performance metrics.…”

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Caught in a Trap: Impact Factors and the Scramble for “World Class” Status

Chou¹,

Cherry²

2017

UCFL

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Head of Admissions at the London School of Business and Management, UKGlobalisation has affected many areas of human endeavour and education has not been exempted. The global Higher Education sector is defined by issues of prestige which have led to the formulation of various ranking systems acting as measures of "global excellence". The spread of these rankings and the uses they are put to in national and international prestige contests has meant that key questions around the global relevance of rankings methodologies have received less attention than their outputs. Governments have embraced them as means of quantifying "progress" and universities themselves have adopted strategies to enhance their positions. These often come with unintended consequences, at the expense of academic endeavour. This paper examines the context of global rankings, the effects of the pursuit of "global excellence" on academic endeavour, and the growing disquiet within the academic community over obsessive pursuit of "world-class status".

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“…Niektórzy badacze mówią o obsesji rankingowej i szaleństwie fuzji (Hazelkorn 2015;Tilak 2016: 126-143;Stack 2016). Rozwój programów doskonałości naukowej, nazywanych również wyspami doskonałości, wiedzie w kierunku utrzymania bardzo konkurencyjnej grupy elitarnych uczelni naukowych nazywanych "światową klasą uniwersytetów" (world class university).…”

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„Fuzjomania” akademicka. Czy Polskę czeka fala konsolidacji uniwersytetów?

Sułkowski¹

2017

nisw

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StreSzCzenie. "Fuzjomania" w sektorze uczelni trwa w wielu krajach już ponad dekadę. Masowe programy fuzji realizowane są m.in. w krajach skandynawskich, we Francji, w Wielkiej Brytanii, w USA oraz w Chinach. Celem fuzji jest tworzenie światowej ligi uniwersytetów oraz racjonalizacja sieci edukacji i badań, a także restrukturyzacja służąca podwyższeniu efektywności kształcenia. W Polsce konsolidacja nie miała charakteru systemowego i nie stanowiła części polityki publicznej. Nieliczne procesy połączeń pomiędzy uczelniami dokonywały się oddolnie, bez pomocy centralnej. Prawdopodobnie jednym z negatywnych efektów braku strategicznych fuzji uczelni w Polsce jest stopniowy spadek czołowych polskich uczelni na niższe miejsca w rankingach międzynarodowych. Warto jednak postawić pytanie o wartość konsolidacji uczelni. Czy fuzje uczelni rozwijają się głównie ze względu na instrumentalną nagrodę, jaką jest awans w rankingu międzynarodowym? Warto też zadać pytanie, czy konsolidacje uczelni nie są przejawem mody, komercjalizacji edukacji, ekspansji nowego publicznego zarządzania oraz rozwoju ideologii neoliberalnej? Odpowiedzi na te pytania można szukać w badaniach prowadzonych na świecie. Dzięki rozległym doświadczeniom międzyna-rodowym oraz biznesowym w zakresie fuzji i przejęć możemy w Polsce przyjrzeć się wartości procesów konsolidacyjnych z perspektywy uczelni wyższych oraz społeczeństwa.Słowa kluCzowe: konsolidacja uczelni, fuzje uczelni, połączenia uczelni

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Replacing the Canadianization Generation: An Examination of Faculty Composition from 1977 through 2017

Replacing the Canadianization Generation: An Examination of Faculty Composition from 1977 through 2017

Caught in a Trap: Impact Factors and the Scramble for “World Class” Status

„Fuzjomania” akademicka. Czy Polskę czeka fala konsolidacji uniwersytetów?

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