Fellows Research

Since 2004, Ukraine has sheltered its famous Black Earth farmland by placing a complete moratorium on its sale. During the past two years, the government has taken steps to prepare for the opening of a land market, including creating an electronic cadaster that matches land deed numbers with satellite imagery. This project required many small landowners in Odessa and Vinnytsia provinces to go through the often grueling process of formalizing their holdings, lest their share be considered ‘abandoned’ and reclaimed by the state.

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Committing to Paper: Formalizing Agricultural Land Shares a Generation after Privatization (500 KB pdf)

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When do businesses support the creation of a welfare state – pension, unemployment, and health benefits – and pay the necessary taxes to support it? In much of the developing world, firms who would otherwise welcome the welfare state and its impact on labor markets are unenthused about welfare state reform. Using content analysis of 351 newspapers and journals during the period of Russia’s major post-soviet Pension Reform, this project shows that businesses’ preferences are heavily influenced by the perceived trustworthiness of the state.

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Firms’ Preferences for State Social Policy in the Developing World – Evidence from Russia (323 KB pdf)

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This case study discusses faculty promotion and performance review in political science departments, using the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and DePaul University as case studies. The careful and impartial review of colleagues’ performance is central to faculty self-governance.  The political science department’s procedures for conducting reviews of faculty performance reflect universities standards in reference to teaching, research/scholarship, and service expectations.

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Fisun Case Study.pdf

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This case study examines career services at three US universities: Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, and University of Washington. The case study discusses centralized and decentralized structures for career centers and software for career center management. The study covers several areas of best practices, including communication with students, student counseling, working with alumni, the dependable strengths method, networking events, working with employers and internships.

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Lobanov Case Study.pdf

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The goal of this case study is to identify the issues that have been bottlenecks in the academic administration at Makerere University as compared to how some of the issues have been identified and solved at Montclair State University.

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Kwesiga Case Study.pdf

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The term “intrapreneurship” refers to entrepreneurial behavior within a corporation or organization. Creation of intrapreneurial behavior among employees of any university may not only result into increased job performance of the employee but also increase transparency, reduce corruption, improve staff empowerment, necessitate accountability situations and hence create a good working environment for production of quality research, teaching and consultancies.

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Mashayo Case Study.pdf

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The objectives of Human Resource Management (HRM) span from manpower needs assessment to management and retention of the same. HRM is responsible for effective designing and implementation of various policies, procedures and programs. The scope of HRM covers, but is not limited to, planning, hiring, recruitment and selection, training and development, payroll management, rewards and recognition, industrial relations, grievance handling, and  legal procedures.

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Tizikara Case Study.pdf

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The major goal of this study is to present a framework document that monitoring and evaluation teams within universities could use as a tool in their efforts to bring project developments home on time, within cost and meets objectives.

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Habib Case Study.pdf

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This case study summarizes findings of the author’s research on strategic planning and its dynamics in a higher education institution, namely The College of New Jersey (TCNJ).

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Khatchatryan Case Study.pdf

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Technology transfer brings a number of benefits to universities and societies. Besides adding billions of dollars to the economy and supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs, it contributes to the creation of new businesses, as well as the creation of new products and services that improve people’s quality of life. The main goal of this study is to propose a reform for organizing an effective system of technology transfer and commercialization at Sevastopol National Technical University on the basis of studying best practices of the U.S.

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Case Study Khromov.pdf

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