To each according to their ability? Academic ranking and salary inequality across public colleges and universities

This article compares the salary structure of tenured and tenure-track faculty across schools within the university systems of North Carolina and New York. Specifically, we establish a positive relationship between school prestige and salary inequality, both overall and within specific academic ranks. This result suggests that the value to teaching is less discipline-specific than the value to research output. Marked differences in the aforementioned statistical linkage across academic ranks also confirm prior speculation that junior faculty salaries are more closely tied to academic value than senior faculty salaries.     

The role of university Knowledge Transfer Offices: Not just commercialize research outputs!

While there is a prevailing rich body of studies on the role of university knowledge transfer office (KTO) in the commercialization process as part of the Third Mission, research on its role in community engagement activities is relatively neglected, even as funding agencies and policy makers conceive these as instrumental to sustaining social and economic development. This article focuses on the role of university KTO in supporting, facilitating or undertaking Third Mission community engagement activities. Drawing on data from the annual Higher Education Business and Community Interaction survey for the years 2007–2012, this paper empirically explores the relationship between a range of Third Mission activities by university KTO and performance of three key business-community services – provision of consultancy, provision of continuous professional development courses (CPD), and leasing of facilities and equipment (FE). It emerges that the routines of developing strategic plan and creating spin-off are positively associated with all types of community knowledge transfer (CKT) activities. Further, the routines of establishing partnerships with local and regional bodies, and licensing are positively related to CPD and FE, respectively. The article is concluded with implications for theory, practice, policy, and suggestions for future research.     

Operating efficiency in Chinese universities: An extended two-stage network DEA approach

The result shows that it accepts the null hypothesis. Namely, there is no significant difference in the operating efficiency of universities in different regions. That is to say, although the efficiency of the central and western universities is slightly better than that of the eastern universities in terms of the average efficiency, there is no significant efficiency difference among the eastern, central, and western regions statistically. Therefore, it shows a balanced development trend for the efficiency of universities in different regions.     

Processes of non-identification: Business school brands and academic faculty

This paper examines the internal implications of branding within higher education, a specific context which is dominated by the co-existence of strong professional logics and identity structures. We focus on how and whether academic faculty identify with the branding practices undertaken by their respective institution. The paper proposes a communicative perspective on brand identification to understand how academic faculty relate to and make sense of the brand. The findings, from responses of 65 faculty members at five business schools, indicate widespread indifference and non-identification with brand messages. Specifically, we identify four types of disconnects between faculty members and branding practices of their respective schools, namely ambiguity, emptiness, misalignment, and irrelevance. The evidence of these disconnects, we argue, suggests that the faculty members refrain from relating the brand to their own identities. Although individuals relate to discourses around the brand, these are often not internalized and do not thereby impact on their individual identity. Rather than navigating between identity tensions, they eschew identification altogether. We contribute to research on how branding works inside contemporary organizations – including higher education - through questioning the role of identity in branding processes seen as the management of meaning.     

高职院校实施完全学分制教学综合改革研究

通过高职院校完全学分制内涵以及国际上实施完全学分制教学的资源环境分析,研究我国高职院校实施完全学分制的人才培养机制、教务管理机制、综合教务管理系统、学籍及学生管理机制、选课管理及人力资源管理、后勤与财务管理机制,对于我国职业院校实施完全学分制改革做好学生、学校、管理以及教师管理方面具有重要意义。     

高职院校思想政治理论课与专业课协同育人路径探析

思想政治理论课和专业课作为高职院校实施人才培养非常重要的两类课程,担任这两类课程的教师作为高职院校做好立德树人工作非常重要的两支队伍,二者是否能够在教育教学中同向同行、形成合力,不仅关乎两类课程自身建设质量、更与高职人才质量稳步提升息息相关,但是囿于二者过去在教育理念、教育方法等方面存在差异,导致二者在协同育人方面的效果不明显,为更好地贯彻落实国家大力倡导的"三全"育人理念,展现合力教育实效,需要高职院校积极探索出适合二者协同育人的制度和方法,为新时代的中国培养出更多更好的高素质技能型人才。     

“双高”背景下北京高职院校招生困境和发展路径研究

“双高”建设背景下,培养服务区域发展的高素质技术技能人才成为高职教育的重要任务。这就要求高职院校首先要稳定办学规模,提升办学质量。而北京地区生源数量减少,非首都功能疏解等因素加大了招生工作困难。该研究从主客观因素及政策层面深入探讨了北京高职院校的招生困境,就当前职业教育面临的发展机遇,从对外宣传及学校内涵式建设的角度重点探索了“双高”背景下有效拓宽招生发展的路径。     

高职院校思想政治理论课与职业素养教育融合研究

高校思想政治理论课是大学生思想政治教育的主渠道。职业素养教育是高职院校人才培养体系中的特色环节,也是高职院校进行大学生素质教育的重要阵地。高职院校思想政治理论课与职业素养教育实现有机融合,可以有效调动各种资源形成教育合力,有利于高职院校构建大思政工作格局。高职院校可以从做好顶层设计、整合人才队伍、融入教育载体、互鉴教育方式、规范考核评价五个方面加强思想政治理论课与职业素养教育的有机融合,形成协同育人效果。     

微时代高等职业院校教育主体社交平台话语权建构必要性研究

微时代是以微博、微信等社交平台为代表的新时代。高职院校教育主体与受教育主体面对社交平台的新型话语体系,展现出不同的话语特征。教育主体只有进行话语权的体系建构,才能帮助学生形成正确认知、树立正确的价值观念,真正培养具有坚定信念和国际视野的高端技术技能人才。     

以马斯洛需求层次理论指导会计职业道德教育

本文提出基于马斯洛需求层次理论,以＂需求实现＂保障会计职业道德教育实效,结合学生的职业生涯发展,以＂需求愿景＂构建会计职业道德约束,并提出系统重构与实施会计专业人才培养方案,为会计职业道德教育提供了新的思路与实践方向。