From the Eye of the Storm

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Maassen, Guy Neave, Ben Jongbloed

   Pages 1-11

3. People on a bridge

   • Don F. Westerheijden, Karen Sorensen

   Pages 13-38

4. Academic staff between threat and opportunity

   • Egbert De Weert, Lieteke Van Vucht Tijssen

   Pages 39-63

5. Internationalisation as a cause for innovation in higher education

   • Marijk Van Der Wende, Eric Beerkens, Ulrich Teichler

   Pages 65-93

6. Assessing institutional change at the level of the faculty

   • Ineke Jenniskens, Christopher Morphew

   Pages 95-120

7. New study programmes at universities

   • Jeroen Huisman, Lynn Meek

   Pages 121-140

8. Budgeting at the institutional level

   • Ben Jongbloed, Han Van Der Knoop

   Pages 141-164

9. Marketisation, hybrid organisations and accounting in higher education

   • Jos Koelman, Piet De Vries

   Pages 165-187

10. Hey, big spender!

    • Hans J. J. Vossensteyn, Ian R. Dobson

    Pages 189-210

11. Analysis of institutions of university governance

    • Harry De Boer, Bas Denters

    Pages 211-233

12. Institutional change in doctoral education

    • Jeroen Bartelse, Leo Goedegebuure

    Pages 235-261

13. Higher education policies and institutional response in Flanders

    • Oscar Van Heffen, Jef Verhoeven, Kurt De Wit

    Pages 263-293

14. Integrating two theoretical perspectives on organisational adaptation

    • Peter Maassen, Åse Gornitzka

    Pages 295-316

In order to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary - the third lustrum - of our Center, we at CHEPS decided to collectively write a book on the issue of how higher education institutions deal with the demand for change. Institutional change is without any doubt one of the burning issues for researchers in higher education and policy studies in general, but even more so for administrators at the institutional level (institutional leadership, deans) and planners of higher education in public life (government agencies, intermediary organisations, international organisations). Whereas the lustrumbook we wrote for our second lustrum concentrated on comparative policy studies, many of them focusing on comparisons between different national higher education systems, this time the object of our analyses is the institution itself. Today's higher education institutions are faced by demands from a multitude of actors - from inside the institution (students, staff) as well as from the institution's environment (governments, employers, research councils, sponsors). These demands require changes in policy, practice, systems, and culture. The ways in which institutions respond to these demands and how their behaviour may be understood and predicted is the challenge tackled by the authors of this volume, each from their own perspective and each looking at different aspects of the educational organisation.

• Europe
• Governance
• education
• education policy
• higher education
• innovation
• quality
• university

`This book describes and catalogues changes which have taken place, rather then critiquing them. It aims at an impartial stance, which is in contrast with many books in this area. It makes a valuable contribution to the discourse of change in higher education and gives food for thought to the many who are interested in such change.'
David Crowter in Prometheus, The Journal of Issues in Technological Change, Innovation, Information, Economics, Communications and Science Policy, 21:3

• Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, The Netherlands

  Ben Jongbloed, Peter Maassen

• International Association of Universities (IAU), Paris, France

  Guy Neave

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