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20-600: Cyprus College is a for-profit college in Nicosia , Cyprus . It was founded in 1961 by Ioannis Gregoriou as a business school , and thereafter it expanded into a number of other fields, including computer science , graduate studies , and social sciences . In 2006, when the college had an enrolment of 3,500, it submitted under the Deanship of Andreas G Orphanides an application to the Ministry of Education and Culture of

40-665: A dean or some variation. The chief executive of academic establishments other than universities, may be termed headmaster or head teacher (schools), director (used to reflect various positions ranging from the head of an institution to the head of a program), or principal, as used in primary education . Like other professional areas, academic administration follows a specialized and often highly abstract terminology. This terminology often depends on that used in military strategy (as in Strategic Planning) and business management (including Public Relations). Digital era brings

60-511: A provost supervises the institution's entire academic staff, occupying a position generally superior to any dean. In other instances the Dean of a College may be the equivalent to a Provost or Vice Chancellor or Vice President for Academic Affairs. Below deans in the administrative hierarchy are heads of individual academic departments and of individual administrative departments. These heads (commonly styled "chairs" or "directors") then supervise

80-631: A communication overload and intense stresses of the job are threatening administrators mental or physical health. Administrators are operating in an era of multiple continuing crises, unreliable supply chains etc. Prof. David D. Perlmutter dean of the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University suggests several questions to ask about the regular meetings which administrators hold: Academic administrations are structured in various ways at different institutions and in different countries. Full-time tertiary education administrators emerged as

100-685: A degree, or the degree turns out to be nearly worthless for future employment. Students can be stuck with large and unmanageable debt loads , defaulting at a significantly higher rate than students at traditional non-profit institutions. Non-profit institutions generally depend in part on academic excellence and creating graduates that succeed in their fields, while for-profit schools are often based on attracting large numbers of students with few requirements in terms of academic qualifications for entry because federal loans are provided for good and bad students alike. Some institutions in this category are regionally accredited , while many others are not accredited by

120-461: A distinct role in Australia from the mid-1970s, as institutions sought to deal with their increasing size and complexity, along with a broadening of their aspirations. As the professionalism of tertiary administrators has developed, there has been a corresponding push to recognise the uniqueness and validity of their role in the academic environment. As of 2004 , general staff composed over half

140-431: A government-recognized accreditation organization and resemble diploma mills . Sometimes a proprietary college may also overlap with the sector of non-degree granting business colleges . Traditionally, a common argument against for-profit universities has been that the science and theory behind the learning technique is more important than the profit or specific skills gained, thus profit or financial success should not be

160-609: A motivational factor in education. The argument in favor of for-profit universities has been that a student learning from a professor who has never needed to produce their product or service for profit is ill-prepared for a free-enterprise system. However, as non-profit colleges and universities increasingly utilize professionals and former professionals in their teaching faculties, this distinction has become less significant. While to some extent proprietary colleges have always existed, their numbers and ubiquitous nature exploded after 1992 when then-committee chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) of

180-654: Is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics , although some personnel may have joint responsibilities. Some type of separate administrative structure exists at almost all academic institutions. Fewer institutions are governed by employees who are also involved in academic or scholarly work. Many senior administrators are academics who have advanced degrees and no longer teach or conduct research. Key broad administrative responsibilities (and thus administrative units) in academic institutions include: The chief executive,

200-418: Is dependent on the value they provide relative to the perceived value of a degree from a higher educational institution overall. The increased reliance on federal student aid funds by these "for-profit" schools is of growing concern. Since federal student loans are typically guaranteed by the government, for-profit colleges can reap a profit from taxpayers even if students drop out after enrolling, do not complete

220-572: Is the Association for Tertiary Education Management . The structures for administration and management in higher education in the United Kingdom vary significantly between institutions. Any description of a general structure will therefore not apply to some or even many institutions, and therefore any general statement of structures may be misleading. Not all UK universities have the post of Registrar. The Director of Finance may report to

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240-1063: The House of Representatives' Committee on Education and the Workforce killed a federal regulation known as the "90-10 rule", and by simplifying the definition of "institution of higher education" to place for-profit schools on par with nonprofit colleges regarding federal-aid eligibility. The idea behind the 90-10 rule was that if a proprietary school's offerings were truly valuable—for example, if they filled some niche that traditional state and private non-profit educational institutions did not—then surely 10% of their students would be willing to pay completely out-of-pocket, i.e., those who fell above federal guidelines for receiving taxpayer subsidies to attend college. Traditional educational institutions routinely met this bar without even paying attention. Proprietary colleges are sometimes called career colleges , business colleges , proprietary schools , institutes , or for-profit colleges . The term preferred by

260-588: The Republic of Cyprus to establish a private university with the name European University Cyprus . Approval for this came in September 2007, and Cyprus College continued its operation independently of European University Cyprus . This Cypriot university, college or other education institution article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . For-profit college Because they are not funded by tax money, their long-term sustainability

280-528: The provost (or vice president for academic affairs, or academic dean) serves as the chief academic officer. Although the demographic picture of university leadership is changing, the majority of academic administrators remain middle-aged white men. The ten highest-paid administrators at private colleges earn an average of about $ 2.5 million per year, while at public colleges the figure is $ 1.4 million. These figures includes both base pay and other income. Deans may supervise various and more specific aspects of

300-703: The New York State-based Association for Proprietary Colleges is Proprietary colleges . Kevin Kinser, assistant professor of educational administration and policy at the University at Albany , has proposed a "Multidimensional classification" scheme of for-profit higher education. Kinser's classes of proprietary colleges are organized by these criteria: 1. Geographic scope : 2. Ownership dimension : 3. Highest degree granted : College administrator Academic administration

320-629: The Registrar or directly to the Vice-Chancellor, whilst other senior posts may or may not report to the Registrar. This next tier of senior positions might include Directors of Human Resources, Estates, and Corporate Affairs. The Academic Registrar is often included in this next tier. Their role is mostly to accomplish student-facing administrative processes such as admissions, student records, complaints, and graduation. The overarching body for all staff working in administration and management in

340-535: The UK is the Association of University Administrators . In the United States, a college or university is typically supervised by a president or chancellor who reports regularly to a board of trustees (made up of individuals from outside the institution) and who serves as chief executive officer . Most large colleges and universities now use an administrative structure with a tier of vice presidents, among whom

360-573: The administrative and educational head of a university, depending on tradition and location, may be termed the university president , the provost , the chancellor (the United States), the vice-chancellor (many Commonwealth countries), principal (Scotland and Canada), or rector (Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East and South America). An administrative executive in charge of a university department or of some schools, may be termed

380-515: The employees at Australian universities. Around 65% of these are female. There has recently been a shift in the preferred nomenclature for non-academic staff at Australian universities, from "general staff" to "professional staff". It has been argued that the changing in role of the professional staff has been due to the changing work that they are performing, as professional staff assist students with technology. The overarching body for all staff working in administration and management in Australia

400-478: The institution, or may be CEOs of entire campuses. They may report directly to the president or chancellor. The division of responsibility among deans varies widely among institutions; some are chiefly responsible for clusters of academic fields (such as the humanities or natural sciences ) or whole academic units (such as a graduate school or college ), while others are responsible for non-academic but campus-wide concerns such as minority affairs. In some cases

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