فصلنامه پژوهش و برنامه ریزی در آموزش عالی
سال بیست و چهارم شماره 2 (پیاپی 88، تابستان 1397)

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the impact of the university on regional development in Iran in the theoretical framework of the knowledge-based development ecosystem. This research was conducted with a descriptive approach, which is a practical and quantitative method. For the empirical analysis of ecosystem of the knowledge-based development and university assistance for regional development, the panel data of Iran’s provinces for three years, Structural Equations Modeling technique and PLS software was used. The results of the research showed that the knowledge-based development ecosystem in the Iranian provinces has not been formed. As a result, provincial universities in Iran do not have a significant impact on regional development. Because universities are unable to connect the basic processes and capabilities of the provinces to innovation, entrepreneurship and knowledge-based businesses. On the other hand, there is no ecosystem that increase regions’ capacity of attracting and connects university activities to economic, social and cultural systems. Therefore, the only way to improve the assistance of universities to regional development is to form “University-based Developmental Ecosystems”, which calls for the efforts of the government, universities, and other well-established institutions.

The purpose of this article was to estimate the effect of higher education on total productivity changes and technical efficiency in the 4-digit classification code of ISIC in Iran during the period of 1994-04. In this regard, a two-way stage approach was used. In the first stage, Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) and technical efficiency index by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) were estimated. The findings indicated that the average MPI was more than one for all industries, indicating a positive growth in total productivity. While the average technical efficiency changes in industries have been negative for all years, technological progress is the main factor in the positive growth of total productivity. In the second stage, utilizing integrated data regression with Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), the effect of higher education on total productivity changes and technical efficiency was estimated. The results showed that higher education has a positive and significant effect on both total productivity and efficiency in manufacturing industries; somehow that the total productivity elasticity relative to higher education is between 0.13 – 0.23 and efficiency elasticity is between 0.28 – 0.38.

Experimental results and theoretical analysis confirms that financial strategic decisions due to the effect of the policy and organizational behavior is very important. The aim of this paper was to study financial strategic making decision and decision-making processes at University of Tehran. Data was collected through qualitative research methods. The population of the study was all the experts and administrators involved in making decision and decision-making processes, including the Board of Executives, Vice Executives, Directors and Deans. In order to collect information, semi-structured interviews, purposive sampling and snowball technique were applied. The results showed that the most important strategic financial issue of University of Tehran is absence of financial independence. In addition, lack of sufficient attention to heated scientific debates in the decision-making meetings, lack of decision support system, incomplete information and poor attention to expert works are other reason for inefficiency and low effectiveness of strategic financial decisions at the university. Although the university has focused on diversification in funding, the financing policies are far from favorable condition and the large part of non-government revenues are provided by educational activities through development of university self- governing campuses and evening and online courses. Allocation of resources is done regardless of the performance of the units and is based on cost per student, past trends and bargaining. In addition, the operational budgeting is not used. To improve the existing situation, it is recommended that the University of Tehran review it's funding and allocation mechanisms and to launch an intelligent decision support system. Putting training courses in economics and finance in higher education on the agenda is also recommended.

Internationalization of higher education is one of the raised and significant issues in most countries of the world, as well as Iran. The purpose of this study was to identify internationalization mechanisms in world selected universities and prioritization of mechanism in Iranian universities. An applied and mixed method was chosen for this study. In the first step, using information and documents available on official sites, the activities of the selected universities including Princeton University, University of Toronto, ETH Zurich, Oxford University, University of Singapore, and University of Melbourne were studied. In the second step, using Analytic Hierarchical Process and Expert Choice software, the mechanisms of internationalization of higher education in Iran were prioritized. By combining weights, the seven internationalization mechanisms of higher education were prioritized by six criteria. Based on the AHP results, university development criterion with a relative weight of .284, had superior priority to other criteria. Among the alternatives, holding joint bachelor and postgraduate programs had the most proiority (weight= .235). Afterward, there were the short-term and long-term international faculty members and students exchanges (weight= .175) and conducting joint research projects (weight= .162).

Since the merging of organizations and institutions has undeniable effects on them, and appropriate action is needed in this regard. The present research selected the merging of Shahid-Abbaspour University in Shahid-Beheshti University as a case study to identify the effects of this action. This study, in terms of purpose and method, is applied and descriptive-survey, respectively. The general design was implemented in a mixed manner. The research data in the qualitative and quantitative section were obtained by interviewing the administrators, and a questionnaire tool distributed among faculty members, administrators and staff, respectively. In some aspects, the merging had some positive and negative effects on academic culture. In general, the comparison of qualitative and quantitative results considered two main points. Firstly, the merging is performed by administrators of both universities, without knowledge and communication with academics community. Secondly, the meanings, values, believes and institutionalized implicit culture of both universities were neglected more than other tangible elements at the university. Therefore, many faculty members and staff in both universities encountered with reduced motivation, increased dissatisfaction, tensions and conflicts in the workplace.

This article is about studying girl students’ gender miseries in the Iranian university. The population of the university is the only mixed sex population in an official and governmental space in which the population is highly by cultural circulation and variations. Due to this fact, the gender encountering happens a lot through the everyday relations of the university. The gender encountering of the girl students with the male professors contains a crucial importance that has been remained silent at other inquiries; however there is some information of sexual exploitation, harassment and discrimination about girl students by male professors. This article mainly concerns about a type of gender encountering, in Iranian university community, which has not been studied before. For this reason, we analyzed 10 universities and conducted in-depth interview with 146 girl students. As the result, our findings demonstrate that the principle of regarding the gender privacy, based on the Iranian culture, by male professors, when it is performed so strictly or it is ruptured then it produces the triadic consequences of gender “harassment”, “discrimination” and “exploitation”. Thus, the inevitable result of these factors is the occurrence of gender misery for girl students.

In this article, based on the current historical data on the emergence and development of the Human Sciences, we looked at this thinking approach that different social forces were placed together-in a coordinated or opposite way- and made possible the acquisition of the available sciences, especially the Humanities. Given the nature of the issue, the research method was a historical analysis and the method of data collection was documentary. The researchers tried to review systematically and coherently, the context and historical conditions in the process of the development of the Humanities. In this research, we showed that the humanities appeared discursively in terms of breakdowns, inequalities and divisions (1796-1831). Two events of coincidence and inconsistencies during cholera, defeat from Russia and the arrival of French and British forces to Iran were the background for acquisition of the humanities. Through discourse acquisition of the humanities, the ground for discourses conflict was provided in Iran, and through this conflict, the humanities discourses became problematic (1941-1953). We also showed that contrariwise to the humanities discourse that has always been dominated by conflict and hostility, humanities institutions have been drafted in the era of security and authority of government. The consolidation of the humanities has been the result of two distinct periods in terms of security (humanities institutions) and conflict (humanities discourse).