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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Whitchurch, Celia; Gordon, George – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
Higher education managers are under increasing pressure from governments to reduce costs by adopting more flexible staffing practices and tensions can arise as institutions seek to sustain motivation and morale across a diversifying workforce. This paper considers how institutional management and governance practices facilitate innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Administrators, College Administration
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Whitchurch, Celia – Higher Education Quarterly, 2008
This paper adds to earlier reviews by the author of the changing roles and identities of contemporary professional staff in UK higher education, and builds on a categorisation of professional staff identities as having "bounded", "cross-boundary" and "unbounded" characteristics. Drawing on a study of 54 professional managers in the United Kingdom,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel, Higher Education, Leadership
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Whitchurch, Celia – Higher Education Quarterly, 2004
Institutional responses to changes in the higher education environment have caused movements in the roles and identities of administrative managers in UK universities. These shifts have highlighted the problem for individuals of balancing traditional public service considerations of administration with institutional innovation and development.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Educational Administration