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This chapter focuses on analyzing the structure of a university as a corporation – a complex organizational and functional mechanism which serves educational interests. It suggests that looking at a university as a specific business corporation helps better understand, more accurately plan, and seamlessly implement the transformation of a university towards better meeting the requirements of academic reform and the society at large. It is demonstrated that managing a university as a corporation is more complex compared to conventional business because of bigger diversity of different aspects and facets to be regarded in a balanced and harmonized way. A conclusion is drawn that an Information Technology and Analytics infrastructure is imperative as an instrument for managing a university at all levels. Finally the evidence is given of a successful trial of this management model and approach in real world settings at Kherson State University during the last several years – in particular for training professionals in our Computer Science and IT programme.
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Spivakovsky, A., Alferova, L., Alferov, E. (2013). University as a Corporation Which Serves Educational Interests. In: Ermolayev, V., Mayr, H.C., Nikitchenko, M., Spivakovsky, A., Zholtkevych, G. (eds) ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications. ICTERI 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35737-4_4
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