The Institute for Higher Education Management is part of the Department of Strategy and Innovation at WU and is led by Univ. Prof. Dr. Barbara Sporn.

IHM activities include research, teaching, policy advising and external engagement with different stakeholders, as well as involvement in international associations. Areas of interest at IHM combine theories of business and management applied to the complex organization of universities. With this focus, IHM provides insights for higher education scholars and practitioners but also beyond that for research and practice interested in expert and nonprofit organizational settings.

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The Institute for Higher Education Management has great news to share! The course "Business Planning and Performance Management" of the Master's program in “Strategy, Innovation and Management Control” (SIMC) was awarded with WU’s Innovative Teaching Award. This prize honors innovative teaching designs that take up new ideas and approaches in the field of university teaching and learning.

The call for proposals takes place annually. This year’s focus concentrated on teaching designs in “International Teaching and Learning”. The course instructors Barbara Sporn and Bernhard Böhm feel proud of this great achievement!

Further information on the course concept and the innovative teaching award can be viewed via the following link (in German):

https://www.wu.ac.at/en/staff/information-for-teachers/teaching-awards/innovative-teaching-award

We are happy to share that the article "The conceptualisation of socially responsible universities in higher education research: a systematic literature review", authored by Ana Godonoga and Prof. Barbara Sporn is now published open access in the journal Studies in Higher Education! If you are interested to learn more about what it means to be a socially responsible university, please check our work here!

Together with Kenneth Qua Prof. Sporn published the article "Contextualising change with social network analysis" in global focus - The EFMD Business Magazine.

SDG-4: Flexible learning pathways in higher education – from policy to practice: an international comparative analysis

Edited by Michaela Martin and Uliana Furiv.

With a chapter by Michaela Martin, Uliana Furiv and Ana Godonoga “International overview of policies and practices for flexible learning pathways".

This book presents findings from an international research project by UNESCO which examined policies and practices facilitating and creating flexible learning pathways in higher education.

China and Europe on the New Silk Road - Connecting Universities Across Eurasia.

Edited by Marijk van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson

With a chapter from Barbara Sporn und Marijk van der Wende The New Silk Road and the "Idea of the University"

This is not a time to be silent. This book addresses the opportunities, controversies and tensions surrounding the New Silk Road. It looks at how universities, while faced with challenges to their autonomy and values, stand firm to defend global cooperation. The book can be ordered here.

Marijk van der Wende about the development and the idea of the book:

"We were able to pull this volume together in a two-year international research project collaborating with colleagues from Europe, China, Hong Kong, the USA, Russia, and Australia. 

We initiated this project in 2017 because we felt that with the changing global order, as it was built on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the wake of World War II, and with China rolling out its New Silk Road (or Belt and Road Initiative), uncertainty was rising in higher education."