How Do Universities Degrade?

Abstract

The article analyzes the possible causes of the degradation of certain public universities in Russia. On the basis of in-depth interviews with representatives of universities with deteriorating performance, certain external and internal causes of institutional degradation are identified.

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Article Title: How Do Universities Degrade? Toward a Formulation of the Problem

Acknowledgements

This article was prepared on the basis of a study conducted as part of the Program for Fundamental Research at the Higher School of Economics (2014). We are indebted to the Science Fund at the Higher School of Economic for supporting the presentation of the main content of this article at the European Association for Institutional Research Conference in August 2014. We are grateful to I. Abankina, I. Karelina, A. Klimov, Y. Kuzminov, S. Marginson, O. Leshukov, D. Semenov, and A. Sobolev for providing useful feedback. We also remember with gratitude E.A. Knyazev who first raised this issue in 2012.

Notes

English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2014 “Institutsional'nyi dizain vyschei shkoly.” “Kak degradiruiut universitety? K postanovke problemy,” Institutsional'nyi dizain vyschei shkoly, 2014, nos. 4–5, pp. 12–20. Mikhail A. Lisyutkin is a junior research fellow in the Institute of Education, who has been at HSE since 2009 and is now its postgraduate student. Isak D. Froumin (doctor of sciences, pedagogy) is a member of the HSE Academic Council, and Academic Director of the HSE Institute of Education.Translated by Peter Golub.