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Proximity Rule And Matthew Effect In Coauthorships Of Iranian Medical Universities, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Mohammad Karim Bayat, Abbas Eslami, Marzieh Hajipoor, Neda Zeraatkar Dec 2011

Proximity Rule And Matthew Effect In Coauthorships Of Iranian Medical Universities, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Mohammad Karim Bayat, Abbas Eslami, Marzieh Hajipoor, Neda Zeraatkar

Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

One of the measures which used to calculate the scholarly collaboration of countries and organizations is co-authorship. Co-authorship is a process in which two or more authors/researchers collaborate with each other to create a joint work via collaboration channels and methods. Although many studies have been considered individual or domain co-authorships, but the organizational aspect of this type of collaboration has attracted less attention. Therefore, the aim of this study is to draw the organizational co-authorships among Iranian medical universities and to analyze the role of proximity and Matthew effect in this collaboration. Thus, 32 medical universities were selected based …


Tracking The Use Of Leed® In Facilities For Higher Education, Shannon M. Chance Jan 2011

Tracking The Use Of Leed® In Facilities For Higher Education, Shannon M. Chance

Shannon M. Chance

America’s 4391 institutions of higher learning own roughly 240,000 buildings according to The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2009) and the United States Green Building Council [USGBC] (n.d.). Most of these buildings’ designs reflect a time when energy was cheap and material abundant. Throughout the past century, building designs frequently ignored their surroundings, usurped energy at appalling rates, and did little to teach inhabitants respect for the environment (Fox, 2007; McDonough & Braungart 2002; Orr, 2007). As our colleges renovate and expand their facilities today, however, their activities reflect a decided shift in values. Over the past few …


The Role Of Career Services In Facilitating Local Economic Growth - Opening Doors To Students Understanding Of Local Opportunities, Jennifer Massey, Yolande Chan, Sean Field Jan 2011

The Role Of Career Services In Facilitating Local Economic Growth - Opening Doors To Students Understanding Of Local Opportunities, Jennifer Massey, Yolande Chan, Sean Field

Jennifer Massey

This study discusses opportunities for municipal governments and university administration to work together to support local economic development in mid-sized university cities. It identifies the largely-neglected, but valuable, labour market that literally surrounds the campus in these cities, as places of opportunity. The paper suggests that the university campus provides a place in which effort to retain creative workers can emerge in cities that typically struggle to attract this workforce. It highlights an important role for Career Services in supporting local economic developmnet by opening doors to students' understanding of local opportunities. The empirical data presented in this paper was …


Assessment In Times Of Turbulence: Using Assessment Tools To Understand And Change Departmental Processes Students, Jennifer Massey Jan 2011

Assessment In Times Of Turbulence: Using Assessment Tools To Understand And Change Departmental Processes Students, Jennifer Massey

Jennifer Massey

No abstract provided.


Queen’S & Kingston…Working Creatively Together To Connect Students And Local Employers, Jennifer Massey Jan 2011

Queen’S & Kingston…Working Creatively Together To Connect Students And Local Employers, Jennifer Massey

Jennifer Massey

No abstract provided.


Faculty Sense Of Agency In Decisions About Work And Family, Kerryann O'Meara, Corbin M. Campbell Jan 2011

Faculty Sense Of Agency In Decisions About Work And Family, Kerryann O'Meara, Corbin M. Campbell

KerryAnn O'Meara

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The Pursuit Of Prestige: The Experience Of Institutional Striving From A Faculty Perspective, Kerryann O'Meara, Alan Bloomgarden Jan 2011

The Pursuit Of Prestige: The Experience Of Institutional Striving From A Faculty Perspective, Kerryann O'Meara, Alan Bloomgarden

KerryAnn O'Meara

Each year many colleges compete to increase their national rankings within the academic hierarchy. As institutions make decisions and take actions with external rankings in mind, their pursuit of external prestige inevitably influences institutional members and stakeholders. The faculty experience of this pursuit of prestige, or institutional “striving,” is largely unknown. Through data from 29 interviews at one self-identified striving liberal arts college, this article examines faculty experience of institutional striving with attention to how faculty perceive the origins of striving, and its influence on institutional identity and direction, their own work-lives and reward systems.