The University under Pressure

by Michael Lounsbury (Editor), Elizabeth Popp Berman (Editor), Catherine Paradeise (Editor)

Overview

Universityies are under pressure. All over the world, their resource environment is evolving, demands for accountability have increased, and competition has become more intense. At the same time, emerging countries have become more important in the global system, demographic shifts are changing educational needs, and new technologies threaten, or promise, to disrupt higher education. This volume includes cutting-edge research on the causes and consequences of such pressures on universities as organizations, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. It provides an empirical overview of pressures on universities in the Western world, and insight into what globalization means for universities and also looks at specific changes in the university environment and how organizations have responded. The volume examines changes internal to the university that have followed these pressures, from the evolving role of unions to new pathways followed by students and finally, asks about the future of the university as a public good in light of a transformation of student roles and university identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785608315
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	02/26/2016
Series:	Research in the Sociology of Organizations , #46
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Edited by Elizabeth Popp Berman, Universityat Albany, SUNY, USA Catherine Paradeise, Universitye Paris-Est-Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Societes, France

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Editorial Advisory Board xi

Introduction: The University under Pressure Elizabeth Popp Berman Catherine Paradeise 1

Part I The University Under Pressure - An Overview

The Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education: An Organization Field Perspective W. Richard Scott Manuelito Biag 25

Nested Organizational Fields: Isomorphism and Differentiation Among European Universities Otto Hüther Georg Krücken 53

Part II Pressures at the Field Level

The Emergent Action Field of Metrics: From Rankings to Altmetrics Catheríne Paradeise Ghislaine Filliatreau 87

Student Loans as a Pressure on U.S. Higher Education Elizabeth Popp Berman Abby Stivers 129

Mapping the Network of North American Colleges and Universities: A New Approach to Empirically Derived Classifications Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur 161

Codes of Commerce and Codes of Citizenship: A Historical Look at Students As Consumers Within Us Higher Education Daniel Lee Kleinman Robert Osley-Thomas 197

Part III Impacts on the Organization

The Changing Finances Of Public Higher Education Organizations: Diversity, Change, and Discontinuity Sondra N. Barringer 223

Reconciling The Small Effect Of Rankings On University Performance With The Transformational Cost Of Conformity Craig Tutterow James A. Evans 265

Universities, Academic Careers, and the Valorization Of 'shiny Things' Joseph C. Hermanowicz 303

Going Interdisciplinary In French and Us Universities: Organizational Change And University Policies Séverine Louvel 329

Draw me a University: Organizational Design Processes in University Mergers Julien Barrier Christine Musselin 361

Selling Students: The Rise of Corporate Partnership Programs in University Career Centers Daniel Davis Amy Binder 395

Part IV What Future for the University?

UC Berkeley's Adaptations to the Crisis of Public Higher Education in the U.S.: Privatization? Commercialization? or Hybridization? George W. Breslauer 425

This Time It Really May Be Different Irwin Feller 453

Two Continents Divided By The Same Trends? Reflections about Marketization, Competition, and Inequality In European Higher Education Pedro Teixeira 489

About the Authors 509