بررسی بازتاب ماموریت ‌های دانشگاهی نوین در برنامه‌های راهبردی دانشگاه‌ های جهان به کمک ترسیم نقشه هم‌ واژگان

هدف: آموزش عالی، با مطالبات روزافزون برای پاسخگویی به چالش های صنعت و جامعه روبرو ست. از آنجا که شواهد پژوهشی اندکی در باره پاسخ دانشگاه‌های جهان در دسترس است، پژوهش حاضر کوشیده با تحلیل محتوای برنامه‌های راهبردی دانشگاه‌ ها، به شناخت رویکرد آن‌ها به ماموریت‌های جدید و نقش سطح پیشرفت کشور در این رویکرد دست یابد.روش‌ شناسی: نمونه پژوهش، 956 برنامه راهبردی دانشگاه های جهان قابل ‌دسترس در گوگل بود که محتوای آن‌ها با تحلیل هم ‌واژگان، در نرم‌افزار ووس‌ویور ترسیم شد. واژه‌ نامه‌ ای برای کنترل واژه‌ها طراحی و استفاده شد. وزن دهی بر اساس سال آغاز برنامه و سطح پیشرفت کشور (شامل شاخص‌ های توسعه انسانی و درصد هزینه کرد بر تحقیق و توسعه) انجام شد.یافته‌ها: پنج خوشه جامعه، دانشجو، سیستم‌، دگرگونی و تحصیلات تکمیلی شناسایی شد. گذشته از ماموریت‌های کلاسیک دانشگاهی، موضوعاتی مانند اجتماع، جهان، اقتصاد، توسعه پایدار، رشد اقتصادی، رشد اجتماعی، تعالی، تنوع، اقلیم و تغییرات اقلیمی نیز مشاهده شد. رخداد موضوعات ازجمله موضوعات مرتبط با ماموریت‌های نوین دانشگاه به تاریخ آغاز برنامه و سطح پیشرفت کشور بستگی دارد.نتیجه‌گیری: دانشگاه های جهان، افزون بر ماموریت‌های کلاسیک، به ماموریت‌های نوین مرتبط با اقتصاد، اجتماع و محیط‌ زیست توجه دارند. وابستگی موضوعات به پیشرفت کشور، ضرورت واقع ‌بینی در تعیین اهداف کوتاه و بلند مدت دسترس‌ پذیر و نیز احتمال تشدید شکاف‌ میان کشورها بر اثر هدف ‌گذاری‌های متفاوت آموزش عالی را گوشزد می ‌سازد.

reflection of new academic missions in the strategic plans of universities around the world: a co-word mapping

purpose: in recent decades, higher education has increasingly faced pressures to address real-world challenges in social, economic, environmental, and technological domains. the literature indicates that universities have expanded the traditional notion of science to include new missions. their responses to these demands varied based on their regulations and social contexts. some universities demonstrated strong local or regional orientations, while others broadened their activities to become international players. additionally, some institutions adapted their internal procedures to embrace new administrative methods or transformed into entrepreneurial universities. consequently, the literature provides evidence of a positive response from universities, although this response is scattered and not uniform on a global scale.as strategic plans offer managerial insights and operational frameworks for achieving organizational goals and missions, their content can be analyzed to examine university responses to various demands. this study employed a quantitative content analysis method to investigate the strategic plans of universities worldwide, exploring their approaches to new academic missions, the emerging subjects recently included in these plans and their correlation with the development levels of their respective countries.methodology: the research sample comprised the strategic plans of universities worldwide that are accessible on the web. the universities were initially identified using the list provided by the scimago institutions and university rankings, which included 4,126 universities at the time of data collection in may 2022. by employing the following formula in the title field of documents indexed in google, the strategic plan of each university was located, and its full text was downloaded:(strategic plan or strategic plans or strategic planning or strategic * plan or action plan or action plans or action planning or strategy or vision or mission or values) and [university name]852 strategic plans in both english and non-english languages were retrieved, available in either text or image formats. the non-english strategic plans were translated using google translate, while image files were converted into text with google docs. the complete texts of the strategic plans were then input as plain text into vosviewer software, version 1.6.19, where their co-word maps were analyzed following linguistic pre-processing. a thesaurus was developed and utilized to standardize the terminology.to identify novel subjects that have recently emerged in the strategic plans, they were weighted according to the commencement year of their respective periods. furthermore, to examine the relationship between these subjects and the development levels of their respective countries, the plans were weighted by the human development index and gross domestic expenditure on research and development, as reported by the united nations development program and the world bank, respectively. a whole counting method was employed to calculate term frequencies. additionally, a threshold of occurrence in at least ten strategic plans was established for a term to be included in the map. a total of 1,158 words or phrases were identified. by applying a threshold of 60% of the most relevant terms, 695 terms were included in the final map.findings: five clusters were identified including “society”, “students”, “systems”, “transformation”, and “graduate programs”. the largest cluster, i.e., “society”, included the concepts related to education, research, and innovation. the terms “society” and “world” were respectively the biggest nodes in this cluster, indicating the connection of these main missions with real-world challenges. in the “graduate cluster”, the “global rankings” node occurred linked to “sustainable development goals”, “international collaborations”, and “partnerships”.