An Analytical Study and Presentation of a Model to Institutionalize Waqf Culture in Universities and Higher Education Institutions

The purpose of this study is to perform an analytical study of religious endowment (waqf) and to provide a model to institutionalize endowment culture in the universities and higher education institutions. This research has a hybrid strategy. Therefore, the studied population are qualitatively and quantitatively different. The qualitative part of the statistical community includes experts in the field of endowment. The quantitative population studied in this study includes all donors and high level managers of universities and institutions of higher education of Hormozgan province, whose number is 135 according to statistics. For quantitative analysis and to test the hypotheses related to the components of the model and the whole model of the research, T-test is used. For this purpose, SPSS version 22 is used. For the qualitative part, the grounded theory approach and Maxqda10 software are used. The research findings show that this research is a model consisting of six dimensions (education, facilitator, strategies, culture, barriers, and results) and 42 components. It was shown that universities and higher education institutions should pay attention to the variables of education, facilitator, strategies, culture, barriers, and results in order to move towards the institutionalization of endowment.