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A Merger that Failed: The Case of the University of New England
Author(s) -
Harman Grant
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1993.tb01619.x
Subject(s) - new england , negotiation , political science , higher education , media studies , sociology , law , politics
In 1989–90 the University of New England combined with three colleges of advanced education in northern New South Wales to form a network university. Unfortunately the merger negotiations and the experience of this network university were marred by conflict and the network University is to split into two separate universities from 1 January 1994 at the latest. The paper provides a case‐study of the merger and tries to explain why the merger failed.