Journal Title
Title of Journal: High Educ
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Abbravation: Higher Education
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Francis L Collins GilSung Park
Publish Date: 2015/10/07
Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-129
Abstract
Over the last two decades enumeration has become a critical force in crafting the governmentalities of globalizing higher education Whether in the glossy Web sites and documentation of the world’s ‘top universities’ or in more finetuned regional and subject guides accreditation schemes journal metrics or hindexes technologies for measuring and ranking academic performance have not only created new imaginaries of reputation but also started to reshape institutional behavior in the pursuit of enhanced performance In this paper we critically explore these governmentalities of globalizing higher education through a discussion of the competing logics and landscapes of reputation and ranking in two leading universities in South Korea Our analysis draws attention to the ways in which university rankings have generated a new multiscalar geography of institutional reputation the mismatch between quality reputation and ranking and the new kinds of institutional behaviors that are emerging to respond to the proliferation of ranking systems Through this analysis our paper offers two critical contributions to the current literature on university reputation Firstly we offer a critique of the highlevel metrics used in university ranking and their implications for the quality of institutions Secondly we also argue for more nuanced accounts of ranking and reputation by scholars of higher education and in particular a greater emphasis on their successes and failures the competing logics and unexpected outcomes of ranking and their implications for the future of universitiesThe research discussed here comes from the Globalising Universities and International Student Mobilities in East Asia project funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 2 Grant scheme Number MOE20089T21101 Principal Investigator AssocProf Ho Kong Chong National University of Singapore The Korea Foundation provided support for manuscript writing within a Field Research Fellowship for Francis Collins The constructive reviews of two anonymous referees have been helpful in refining the arguments developed in this paper The usual disclaimers apply
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