بررسي راهبردي تحولات بنيادي مورد نياز دانشگاه هاي دولتي ايران

Strategic Survey of Fundamental Changes Required in Iranian Public Universities

By announcing the document of20 years prospect, the developmental path of Iran was designed for two next decades. The 4th Economical, Social, and Cultural Developmental Act, has been approved for the years of 1384-1388. The major issues about the situation of public universities, which have been emphasized in the 4th Act, could be seen under the statement No. 49. The content of this statement makes fundamental changes in the universities unavoidable. This paper tries to explore the necessity ofrequired changes and the way of implementing them by the use of descriptive, explorative and analytic methods with strategic approach. The data and information were gathered through questionnaires and analyzed through statistical methods. This research has been done in Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT), and Iranian public universities. The statistical populations were all of the top managers of the MSRT and all of the deans and deputies of the universities, and the faculties in 1385-1386 and 1386-1387 academic years. Findings show that it is needed to transform the universities in four areas which are: "missions and goals", "strategies and policies", "structures and tasks", "environmental factors and stockholders". In these four areas, the main priorities for fundamental changes were determined as, "improvement of the quality and quantity of research"; "globalization"; .. promotion of professional services"; and "Board of Trustees", respectively.