Do Private Universities Achieve Financial Sustainability as a Result of Transformational Leadership

Against the backdrop of financial turbulence at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines the role of transformational leadership in leading private universities in Indonesia to achieve good financial sustainability. This study is the latest study that combines the indirect relationship of transformational leadership and financial sustainability using the mediation of accountability and transparency as part of good university governance. The study used a closed survey of 381 respondents in the financial sector from private universities in 10 provinces in Indonesia. Data processing and analysis using SPSS with various stages for an analysis endurance test. The results show that transformational leadership does not directly affect financial sustainability but through transparency and accountability. Another accepted hypothesis discusses the relationship of transformational leadership to the transparency and accountability of higher education institutions. The last accepted hypothesis is the direct relationship of the transparency variable to the financial sustainability and the accountability variable to the financial sustainability of private universities in Indonesia. Theoretical and practical recommendations are discussed densely in the discussion of this research. © 2022 WITPress. All rights reserved.

Australian Public Universities: A crisis of governance*

In dialogue with other articles within this special issue, in this article we argue that the financial crisis triggered by the onset of COVID-19 is revealing a failed governance structure within Australian public universities that has ultimately enabled the conditions that led to the crisis currently before us. We suggest that the impact of COVID-19 has laid bare a series of problems that were in the process of unfolding years before the pandemic hit. Finally, we will examine this failure of leadership through the lens of the statutory nature and governance structures of Australian public universities, cast against the current rhetoric that metaphorically equates universities with commercial corporations, to determine the extent to which such a metaphor is accurate, and ultimately (we contend) detrimental to an effective and efficient university sector.

COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance.

Non-local students have been one of the worst affected groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them live in foreign countries/regions with limited social and economic support. This study examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on the well-being of non-local students globally. It also examines the effectiveness of university support for the well-being of non-local students. Data were derived from a global survey on non-local students' knowledge, experiences, and well-being amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was conducted in April 2020 (n = 583). A significant proportion (42.6%) of the students had low well-being. We found that being worried about COVID-19 (B = - 0.206, p = 0.048), perceived disruption of academic activities (B = - 0.155, p = 0.024), perceived disruption of social activities (B = - 0.153, p = 0.044), and feeling lonely (B = - 0.340, p = 0.000) were negatively associated with the students' well-being. However, informational support from universities was positively associated with their well-being (B = 0.225, p = 0.004). These findings are discussed in the context of higher education governance and practical changes necessary to promote non-local students' well-being during and after the pandemic.

Reimagining Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Chinese Students' Desires for Overseas Learning and Implications for University Governance.

Neither world leaders nor leading medical professionals would have anticipated the adverse impacts of the global health crisis resulting from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on multifaceted aspects of contemporary society. Set against the broader political economy context, this Special Issue focuses on examining the impacts of the present global health crisis on higher education development. Addressing the major objective of the Special Issue, this article chooses the theme of reimagining higher education in the post-COVID-19 era, critically examining Chinese students' desires and motivations for overseas learning. Based upon a few waves of surveys conducted since 2020, after the outbreak of the pandemic, this article assesses the impacts of the unprecedented global health crisis on Chinese students' future overseas study plans. Having experienced various forms of disruption during the COVID-19 period, this article also critically reimagines higher education development in the post-COVID-19 era.

Social networks as a vehicle for happiness management in university governance

Purpose This study aims to determine whether the communication of Universities in Madrid (Spain) on social networks through their official channels has caused positive results in students' perceptions of their trust in university institutions during the first semester of the 2020-2021 term and to measure whether the implementation of happiness management strategies in the communication within university governance affected students' happiness levels, as well as on the recognition of their belonging to the university. Design/methodology/approach With an exploratory-correlational approach and a quantitative study, this study conducted a statistical-descriptive analysis based on the premise of a general linear regression model with correlations between the variables, using a data collection instrument, whose construct and content validity was previously assessed by experts, which was answered by 564 students of the Degrees in Communication and Marketing from the Complutense University of Madrid, University of La Laguna, and ESERP Business and Law School. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test and Bartlett's test of sphericity were implemented to analyze the correlation between variables;Cronbach's alpha coefficient and Pearson and Spearman's coefficients were also used. Findings Those students who used social networks to receive news from university institutions about the COVID-19 pandemic deem these channels official, sound and credible. Similarly, the use of official information from university institutions on social networks increases students' happiness levels. Originality/value To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is one of the first studies aiming to provide scientific evidence of the relationship between happiness management and university governance. This research's practical implications lead to attributing added value to these types of means for the university governance that seeks students' happiness.

Education and Human Rights: Approaches from a Critical Latin American Perspective

This paper aims to analyze the vision of human rights and education in Latin America from a critical perspective. In recent years, the universality of human rights has been questioning, noting that the peculiarities and sui generis circumstances of the region do not respond to the definitions of law promoted by the West. Understood in this way, the conceptual duo education / human rights have been presented as instruments to reproduce colonial patterns of exclusion and social marginalization, responding to the interests of the global market, as well as the advance of capitalism. With these premises, it is not intended to deny the intrinsic dignity of every human being;on the contrary, it tries to make visible the colonial power structures that have distorted the human condition. © 2022 Universidad Nacional Experimental Rafael Maria Baralt. All Rights Reserved.

University governance, the new uncertainties in post-pandemic ways of working

The pandemic has led to reflection on adjustments in working hours, reducing face-to-face times and moving rapidly to teleworking and remote work systems, the foregoing has forced university government systems to make monitoring and control systems more flexible, but at the same time, it has generated that workers increase the time spent in the development of tasks to meet the challenges and tasks entrusted. This essay reviews the elements associated with the reduction of working hours and the challenges that this new normal entails for university governments after the training and installation of robust systems that allow the same tasks to be carried out outside the organization’s space. © 2022 Universidad Nacional Experimental Rafael Maria Baralt. All Rights Reserved.