Pub Date : 2023-05-20DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00315-2
Sayed A Mostafa, Robert Ferguson, Guoqing Tang, Mujahid Ashqer
To help students cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions offered students flexible grading policies that blended traditional letter grades with alternative grading options such as the pass-fail or credit-no credit options. This study conducted an in-depth analysis of the flexible grading policy at a medium-sized university in the USA. We studied the differential selection of flexible grading options by course characteristics and students' sociodemographics and academic profiles between Spring 2020 and Spring 2021. We also examined the impacts of the policy on sequential courses. Our analysis utilized administrative and transcript data for undergraduate students at the study institution and employed a combination of descriptive statistics and regression models. The analysis revealed that the flexible grading policy was utilized differently depending on course characteristics, with core courses and subjects like mathematics, chemistry, and economics having higher rates of usage. Additionally, sociodemographic and academic profile factors led to varying degrees of utilization, with males, urban students, freshmen, and non-STEM majors using the policy more frequently. Furthermore, the analysis suggested that the policy may have disadvantaged some students as they struggled in subsequent courses after using the pass option. Several implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-20DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00310-7
M. Yılık, Yaşar Kondakçı
{"title":"Technology Development Zones as a Form of University–Industry Relations: A Multiple-Case Study","authors":"M. Yılık, Yaşar Kondakçı","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00310-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00310-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45226513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00312-5
H. Jafar
{"title":"Fertile Ground for Establishing American-Style Universities in Post-conflict Societies: Historical Comparisons and Current Rationales","authors":"H. Jafar","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00312-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00312-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43752567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00309-0
J. Shin, Hyun-Ki Shim, Su-Jin Kim, P. Lee
{"title":"A Systematic Review of the Impact of Performance-Based Funding in the US","authors":"J. Shin, Hyun-Ki Shim, Su-Jin Kim, P. Lee","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00309-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00309-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46509119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-14DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00307-2
Henning Kroll, Torben Schubert
In recent years, new expectations have been placed on universities, demanding academic contributions towards solving large-scale, interdisciplinary challenges. This is in conflict with existing insights from university governance research, which emphasises that scientific communities focus on reproducing disciplinary practices that are unsuitable in addressing societal challenges, because the problems associated with them are usually large-scale, complex and interdisciplinary. In light of this seeming paradox, we revisit the question of how-and on which theoretical grounds-universities may still be able to develop suitable internal governance mechanisms that allow them to address complex societal challenges effectively. Because university leaders are usually unable to coerce individual researchers to address such challenges in their research simply through their bureaucratic powers, we will argue that university leaders can, however, leverage individual researchers' agency to deviate from routine and disciplinary practice by developing novel or legitimising existing interdisciplinary scripts necessary to deal with such societal problems. Specifically, we outline that university managements can create a dual role consisting of the communication of legitimising interdisciplinary research on societal challenges, as well as providing for the necessary degree of interdisciplinary coordination by convening researchers around these topics.
{"title":"Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective.","authors":"Henning Kroll, Torben Schubert","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00307-2","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41307-023-00307-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, new expectations have been placed on universities, demanding academic contributions towards solving large-scale, interdisciplinary challenges. This is in conflict with existing insights from university governance research, which emphasises that scientific communities focus on reproducing disciplinary practices that are unsuitable in addressing societal challenges, because the problems associated with them are usually large-scale, complex and interdisciplinary. In light of this seeming paradox, we revisit the question of how-and on which theoretical grounds-universities may still be able to develop suitable internal governance mechanisms that allow them to address complex societal challenges effectively. Because university leaders are usually unable to coerce individual researchers to address such challenges in their research simply through their bureaucratic powers, we will argue that university leaders can, however, leverage individual researchers' agency to deviate from routine and disciplinary practice by developing novel or legitimising existing interdisciplinary scripts necessary to deal with such societal problems. Specifically, we outline that university managements can create a dual role consisting of the communication of legitimising interdisciplinary research on societal challenges, as well as providing for the necessary degree of interdisciplinary coordination by convening researchers around these topics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013281/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9713502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00305-4
H. Alkhateeb, Salim Bouherar
{"title":"Understanding Cancel Culture in Higher Education in the Arab World","authors":"H. Alkhateeb, Salim Bouherar","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00305-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00305-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42300347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00306-3
Srikanth Ramani, Deidre Henne, D. Kotsopoulos, B. Dickson, Chad Dickson
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of University Investment Policies and Procedures Related to Responsible Investing","authors":"Srikanth Ramani, Deidre Henne, D. Kotsopoulos, B. Dickson, Chad Dickson","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00306-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00306-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45324460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-13DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00303-6
Yuan-Chih Fu, Juan José Sánchez Vásquez, Bea Treena Macasaet, A. Hou, Justin J. W. Powell
{"title":"Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy","authors":"Yuan-Chih Fu, Juan José Sánchez Vásquez, Bea Treena Macasaet, A. Hou, Justin J. W. Powell","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00303-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00303-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44649984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-13DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00302-7
Laura Louise Sarauw
{"title":"Time Matters in Higher Education: How the ECTS Changes Ideas of Desired Student Conduct","authors":"Laura Louise Sarauw","doi":"10.1057/s41307-023-00302-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00302-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47327,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44726612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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