The framework of mission orientation in Iranian universities based on the PDIA approach; The case of Giulan University

Fereidouni, S.

doi:10.22035/jous.2024.4998.1024

The framework of mission orientation in Iranian universities based on the PDIA approach; The case of Giulan University

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Author

S. Fereidouni

Assistant Professor, Department of Futurology and Theorizing in Higher Education, Institute for Research & Planning in Higher Education, Tehran, Iran

10.22035/jous.2024.4998.1024

Abstract

During last decades, developing mission-based university has been becoming a hot debate among Higher education experts and the macro-official documents. Although the central part of this debate is related to the way of developing mission-based university. Some experts believe in the centralization process and other experts, emphasis on university empowerment as a scholar community. The history of philosophy in the world have shown that the university is an institution that has emerged from social changes and builds its missions according to social demands. And it remains as a social institution that is formed and opens and influences in continuous action and reaction with society. Therefore, considering the principle that the university is a social institution, the present study was conducted with the aim of designing a framework for the mission-orientation of the university and focusing on the concept of the idea of the university. Because the missions of universities, in addition to being rooted in social demands, find their basis in the essence of each university is. The present study has done due to finding the framework for developing mission-based university. This study is based on PDIA approach, Ecological university of Ronald Barnet, and university Idea. The findings of the study indicate that mission-based university in Iran suffers from a serious conceptual misunderstanding among policymakers and upstream documents. Finally, that the final framework is stressed on local stakeholders’ activities and ecological agency of university. This framework has recognized academic independence, including 10 Executive steps, and been abled to use in different universities. In addition, this framework tries to broaden a way to identify university identities and missions. Finally, these missions are categorized to two parts; public and specific missions. And these are resulted from the current situation of the university, current and potential ability of the university and the macro and micro related official documents. In addition, the specialties and adaptions among micro- official documents in the university are could obtained from this framework.

Keywords

Mission-based University

Decentralization

University Idea

PDIA

Subjects

Higher Education Planning Development

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