The open seminar will be held as follows:<\/p>\n
\u25a0Date
14:00-15:15, Monday, July 19th, 2021 (JST)<\/p>\n
\u25a0Theme
The Publicness of Universities : Analysis of the Discourse and Efficiency<\/p>\n
\u25a0Venue
Online (Zoom) \u203bWe will inform you of the participation URL by the day before<\/p>\n
\u25a0Language
English<\/p>\n
\u25a0Lecturer
Jin-Kwon LEE (Seoul National University)<\/p>\n
\u25a0Abstract
This study focused on the scope of publicness that has not been sufficiently discussed in the field of higher education despite its importance. The main purpose of the study was to examine how the discourse surrounding university publicness is organized, which factors have been discussed as public values, and finally, how publicness affects university performance and efficiency through empirical analysis. Based on the integrated publicness theory, the study derived three sectors to publicness in higher education: ownership, regulatory, and normative publicness. By applying a mixed-method approach of qualitative discourse analysis and quantitative studies, the results were as follows. First, throughout the discourse of the National Assembly\u2019s Education Committee, the politicians shared the idea and belief that public intervention by the government can enhance the effects liken to be driven by publicness of university \u2013 although they have not reached a conclusion to which publicness they are referring to. Second, based on the three branches of publicness, it was found that particular types of publicness could lead to positive results on their performance and efficiency. In particular, public universities (which represent ownership by the government, which leads to active governmental support) did not show higher performance compared to private schools. On top of that, regulatory publicness rather seemed to reduce their performance and efficiency \u2013 exclaiming that prevailing regulatory actions by the government are rather obstructions to raising their acknowledgment. On the other hand, normative publicness, which was represented by the values shared and realized collectively among organizational members, improved their performance and efficiency.<\/p>\n
This implied that the government\u2019s regulatory action against universities, which does not guarantees better performance and efficiency, should be revised. That includes governmental actions of suspending national funds based on evaluation and competition. The government\u2019s funding policy should be conducted in a way that fully guarantees universities their autonomy. Second, with different comprehension available on the publicness of universities, the Government should clarify which publicness they are seeking through their policy. The purpose of \u201cstrengthening the publicness through the expansion of public support by the government\u201d should be specified to enhancing the public values shared and expected in higher education. Third, it is necessary to \u201cmeasure\u201d and \u201cevaluate\u201d the normativity of universities at the government\u2019s policy level so that policies can be formed and implemented in a way that maximizes the normativity of universities as well as the performance of universities.<\/p>\n
\u25a0Program
14:00 \u2013 14:05 Introduction\u00a0 Yangson Kim (Hiroshima University)
14:05 \u2013 14:45 Presentation \u00a0Jin-Kwon Lee (Seoul National University)
14:45 \u2013 15:15 Discussion (Q&A)<\/p>\n
\u25a0Note
\u30fbIf you would like to attend online, an internet access, device with camera and microphone are needed.
\u30fbUsing your full name for your personal meeting ID is required when you enter the meeting room. You may not receive a permission to enter the room if the ID is different from the name registered.
\u30fbAs a participant, you are not allowed to record the seminar or take the screenshot at your own.
\u30fbOrganizing seminar through Zoom is a new attempt for us. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you, and thank you for your understanding.
\u30fbWe will inform you of the participation URL by the day before. Please contact us at the following address if you do not receive the email.
k-kokyo(at)office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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