Introduction
In recent years, colleges and universities throughout the world have engaged in an impressive number of institutional initiatives and activities that complicate the notion of a single, unified culture in higher education. To promote research and cultivate ties with business communities, universities have courted private donors, forged alliances with dissimilar institutions, and cemented entrepreneurial partnerships with a variety of corporate entities (Eckel and Hartley 2008). To nurture global networks and recruit talented students, many prominent universities have explored the viability of building branch campuses in foreign countries (Lanford and Tierney 2016). Online education has transformed what many institutions think of as their traditional constituency or who teach their courses. Meanwhile, national governments focused on improving the skillsets of workers to meet the challenges of a knowledge economy have...
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Tierney, W.G., Lanford, M. (2018). Institutional Culture in Higher Education. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_544-1
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