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Boosting Academic Reputations: A Study of University Departments
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 11, Number 2, Winter 1987
- pp. 177-197
- 10.1353/rhe.1987.0003
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This article explores factors that played a major role in the rapid improvement of academic departments at eight major research universities and identifies four distinct improvement strategies: departmental hiring practices, funding, leadership, strategic planning, and overall institutional reputation.