(Re)Discovering University Autonomy : The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder and Educational Values in Higher Education

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Challenge of University Autonomy....Pages 3-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Higher Education, Governance, and Academic Freedom....Pages 27-43 Cultural and Constitutional Embeddedness of University Autonomy in Lithuania....Pages 45-53 Higher Education in India at a Crossroads: The Imperative for Transcending Stagnation and Embracing Innovation....Pages 55-72 University Autonomy in the Age of Marketization....Pages 73-84 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 University-Staff Tensions in Implementing Human Resource Autonomy in Practice: The Example of Moldova....Pages 87-95 Staff Evaluation Systems—Shaping Autonomy through Stakeholders....Pages 97-106 Institutional Financial Autonomy in Practice: A Departmental Perspective....Pages 107-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 When Students Take the Lead....Pages 125-135 Autonomy Produces Unintended Consequences: Funding Higher Education through Vouchers in Lithuania....Pages 137-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Autonomy Mediated through University-Business Collaboration....Pages 151-169 Industry-Academia-Government Cooperation in Japan: The Pivotal Role of the University and Implications for Autonomy....Pages 171-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Combining Internationalization and Autonomy: The Case of Russia....Pages 185-201 Autonomy and the Realities of Internationalization at Australian Universities: An Institutional Logics Perspective....Pages 203-214 University Internationalization and University Autonomy: Toward a Theoretical Understanding....Pages 215-235 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 (Re)Discovering University Autonomy....Pages 239-249 Back Matter....Pages 251-268 "Governments in all parts of the world are engaged in the radical reform and reshaping of higher education to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. They recognize that they need higher education institutions with greater autonomy and more freedom to help realize their goals; the challenge is to define university autonomy in a way that will best meet the needs of governments, higher education institutions, and other stakeholders. Turcan, Reilly, and Bugaian have developed a new and critical understanding of institutional university autonomy by bringing together original case studies based on a holistic view of the topic. The authors evaluate institutional university autonomy by introducing five interfaces that characterize external and internal interactions between modern universities and their key stakeholders. By addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way, (Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far-reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers"-- Provided by publisher