Amy Scott Metcalfe

Knowledge management and higher education : a critical analysis

Chapter I. The Political Economy of Knowledge Management in Higher Education Chapter II. Knowledge Management Trends: Challenges and Opportunities for Education Institutions Chapter III. Ontologies in Higher Education Chapter IV. Toward Technological Bloat and Academic Technocracy: The Information Age and Higher Education Chapter V. Weve Got a Job to Do - Eventually: A Study of Knowledge Management Fatigue Syndrome Chapter VI. Institutional Research (IR) Meets Knowledge Management (KM) Chapter VII. Revealing Unseen Organizations in Higher Education: A Study Framework and Application Example Chapter VIII. Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model.

Whose Web of Knowledge™ Is It Anyway?: Citing Feminist Research in the Field of Higher Education

We examined the post-publication period of six feminist articles (Hart, 2006) using citation indexing. From our findings, we argue that both indexes are embedded within an enduring system of academic patriarchy and neither index truly measures impact of scholarly work. Implications of current impact measures for promotion, tenure, and merit are discussed.

Examining the Trilateral Networks of the Triple Helix: Intermediating Organizations and Academy-Industry-Government Relations:

This article builds upon the concept of the trilateral networks of the triple-helix model in order to understand the role of organizations that operate in the spaces between institutions of higher education, industrial firms, and government agencies. Organizations situated in this interstitial space between public and private entities have been found to actively influence the formation of academy-industry-government relationships through the exchange of actors, resources, and commerce. These ‘intermediating organizations’ are often nonprofit organizations, including professional associations, foundations, consortia, independent research support organizations, and special interest groups. In this study a new conceptual model is proposed and illustrated through the use of examples of intermediating organizations in North America.

Gender Gaps in North American Research Productivity: Examining Faculty Publication Rates in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.

The present study addresses gender gaps in North American research productivity, which may be influenced by personal and family variables, as well as professional and work-related variables. The study was conducted as part of the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) International Survey, conducted in 2007–08. Using articles as indicator of research productivity, we analyzed the gender gap in publication rates among full-time higher education faculty in our combined sample (Canada, Mexico, and the United States). This analysis has implications for higher education policy. In terms of research productivity, the relative productivity rates of male and female academics have been a policy priority for many years to increase the cumulative rates of research activity. We found that the variables related to research intensity varied by country, providing a more nuanced understanding of the gender gap between male and female faculty.

FISCAL REALITY AND ACADEMIC QUALITY: PART-TIME FACULTY AND THE CHALLENGE TO ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES

ABSTRACT This paper reports on a qualitative case study concerned with how the use of part-time faculty influences and embodies organizational culture at one southwestern community college. It examines how four differing cultural perspectives interact from a functional perspective to allow the college to fulfill its mission, and how those four perspectives combine to define an overarching culture that can be described as globalized in its orientation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the policies, opinions, and practices of academic administrators regarding the use of part-time faculty to understand how they contribute to the cultural climate of an institution. We examined how the interests of administrators are oriented to each of the four theoretical models of organizational culture, and how upper-level leadership is served or threatened by part-time faculty.

The Internationalization of Research

This chapter examines the internationalization of research as revealed in the CAP data. Once having distinguished between two basic dimensions of the internationalization of academic research, namely, the international content or topics of researches and international networks or research collaborators, the factors that explain international research collaboration are identified. Next, research outputs and their dissemination are considered. The impact of collaborating with international colleagues on individual scientific productivity is tested empirically, and the relationship between individual collaboration with international colleagues and international coauthorship is also analyzed. Results of the multivariate regression analyses confirm the existence of differences among disciplines in patterns of international research collaboration as well as the impact of the type of research in which academics are engaged and continued inequalities in the internationalization of research. The impact of international collaboration on individual productivity is positive in all disciplines, as it is on coauthorship with foreign colleagues.

Imag(in)ing the University: Visual Sociology and Higher Education

This study examines the potential of visual sociology to expand our knowledge of higher education through the use of visual data sources and methods of analysis. Photographs and archival material form the basis of the study. The images were analyzed as being part of the initiation and fulfillment stages of the social construction of collective discourse known as an “organizational saga” (Clark, 1972). These stages were coupled with theories and methods from visual sociology to examine the production and reproduction of iconic images central to the organizational saga of the case study university.

Canada: Perspectives on Governance and Management

In this chapter we examine the perceptions of full-time university faculty in Canada of institutional governance and management. Canadian higher education is loosely and informally governed at the federal level, with much of the fiscal authority held by the ten provinces. Institutional managers were perceived to be the most influential actors in decisions tied to provincial resources. Faculty in the Canadian CAP survey labeled themselves as the most influential decision-makers in areas relating to core academic activities. At the individual level, they saw themselves as being influential in setting internal research priorities and establishing international linkages. Academic unit managers were seen as the most influential in determining the overall teaching load of faculty. Students were seen as the most influential in the evaluation of teaching.

The Corporate Partners of Higher Education Associations: A Social Network Analysis

Higher education associations, the nonprofit entities that serve as professional development organizations for postsecondary administrators and faculty, are sites of university–industry (UI) contact, although these organizations are rarely examined in the UI literature. This study utilizes social network analysis to discover the indirect connections between industry and the academy as seen through sponsorship relations between corporations and associations. The findings show that several influential North American companies are connected to prominent higher education associations, particularly those associations that serve ‘managerial professionals.’ These corporate‐association ties may be pathways for increased market‐like behaviors in postsecondary education.

Introduction: education policy analysis for a complex world: poststructural possibilities

More than a decade ago, the topic of poststructural policy analysis in education formed the basis of a 2003 special issue for the Journal of Education Policy (JEP) (Volume 18, Number 2). While by n...