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Changing missions? How the strategic plans of research-intensive universities in Northern Europe and North America balance competing identities

Morphew, CC; Fumasoli, T; Stensaker, B; (2016) Changing missions? How the strategic plans of research-intensive universities in Northern Europe and North America balance competing identities. Studies in Higher Education 10.1080/03075079.2016.1214697. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This paper assesses the assumption that public research-intensive universities are conforming to external pressures and demands in similar ways. By analyzing the strategic plans of public research-intensive universities in Northern Europe and North America, we identify variations in how public and private dimensions of higher education are balanced. The study includes 19 North American and Northern European universities and finds that North American universities loosely couple strategic objectives addressing separate stakeholders linked to their public and private missions. Northern European universities tend to organize their strategic priorities more tightly within a narrative of ‘research excellence.’ The findings suggest the nature of change in contemporary higher education and the blurring boundaries between public and private missions.

Type: Article
Title: Changing missions? How the strategic plans of research-intensive universities in Northern Europe and North America balance competing identities
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1214697
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1214697
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: University strategic planning, planning, purposes of education, qualitative research, governance
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1545692
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