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My mountain already got its first snow this week, but I’m still trying to hang on to fall.
But what did I read this week?
I am shocked, shocked
To learn that higher education administrators are not learning from the research. A research institute in Germany.
Over three years, researchers from the CHE Centre for Higher Education think tank in Germany surveyed and interviewed managers and scholars, examining the degree to which managers employed the “diverse insights generated by science and higher education research.”
While the higher education leaders did value the research they did not consult it very often.
The study authors determined that managers did place a high value on higher education research, with more than more than 60 per cent describing scientific evidence as “very important” or “predominantly important” to their work. However, almost 60 per cent say they only consulted research findings on a once-monthly or even less frequent basis, with insufficient time and a lack of familiarity with methods of transferring research commonly cited obstacles.
Part of the problem is a mismatch between where research is published and the kinds of materials higher education leaders typically read about that aspect of their work.
