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Governance of Higher Education System in Iran: The Elongated Road to New Public Management

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Academic governance; Higher education systems

Definition

Academic governance, as a new topic from recent years, refers to a complete set of relations which drives policy-making systems in academic settings. The emergence of this concept in the field of higher education has led to the development of different models of academic governance. Therefore, evaluating the efficacy of different models of academic governance is of great importance.

Introduction

Studies have shown that university governance is an important and significant matter. Indeed, public interests grow more through university governance than through corporate governance in the business world. It is not only a question of ensuring the honesty and transparency of the processes, but also a question of allowing society to invest more heavily in education, knowledge, and intellectual innovation (Prondzynski 2012). The constant growing of the number of public and private institutions makes higher education systems more...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Management, Tarbieat e Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    Hassan Danaee Fard

  2. Faculty of Education, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

    Ghasem Salimi

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Fard, H.D., Salimi, G. (2017). Governance of Higher Education System in Iran: The Elongated Road to New Public Management. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3367-1

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