Changing missions? How the strategic plans of research-intensive universities in Northern Europe and North America balance competing identities

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1074-1088

  Morphew, Christopher C ^a   Fumasoli, Tatiana ^b   Stensaker, Bjørn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

governance; planning; purposes of education; qualitative research; University strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981290723     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1214697     Document Type: Article

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