Graduate School

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Name: Firtname M. Lastname Course: Ph.D/MAE – Major Major

Proposed Title No. 1

Research Culture among Higher Education Institutions: An Assessment

Toits Continuing Journey

Reason(s)/Justification(s) in Choosing the Topic:

Teehankee, an Associate Professor and Chair in the Management and
Organization Department of De La Salle Universitysaid that “research is a core
activity of Higher Education Institution but notoriously neglected”. For research to be
sustained, it must be part of the Higher Education way of institutional history and life,
which is its culture.
Since Research is the basis of how a university education works, a fundamental
support of our teaching, and a basis of our support to our community, assessing the
University’s Research Culture is very crucial.
Being part of our University’s Research and Development Office as one of the
members in our local research committee at the College of Information and
Communications Technology, I became interested and concerned about Research
Culture and other research activities.
Cheetham (2007)said that research culture is the set of shared, taken-for-
granted implicit assumptions that members of a Higher Education institution hold
about research and that determines how they perceive, think about, and behave with
respect to research activities. Doing and publishing needed scholarly research is not
easy for faculty members which is one of the many reasons of not engaging into
research activities. Time constraints, funding and competing demands like teaching,
administrative work, consulting are also another factor.
In addition, research culture is the structure that gives that behavior
significanceand that allows us to understand and evaluate the research activity. In a
university then, the culture is that structure, the cultural structurebased around the
behavior of the faculty members, staffs and students that allows us totransfer the
knowledge gained through this systematic process to ourstudents and to the
community.We pass it on and other knowledge to our students in the context oftoday,
along with the ability to analyze theevidence in the context of tomorrow. That structure
is the cultural context that we must strive to build on – thecontinuous development.
We cannot afford to stop researching, learningor we run the risk that our teaching will
decrease, gradually in its relevance to tomorrow.

Expected Contribution to the Growth of Knowledge in ____________.

List of Related Literature and Related Studies Consulted:

 Cantilado, NieloM., “An Assessment of the Research Culture of Divine Word

College of Calapan”, Thesis (M.A. in Educational Management), De La Salle
University, 2005.

 Mario A. Fetalver, Jr. “Research culture in State higher education institutions

(SHEIs) in Region IV : Proposed Research Program For Institutional Research
Development / Thesis: (Ph.D. in Education major in educational management)
- UST, 2002

 Dr. Benito Teehankee, “Building Research Culture in Philippine Higher

Education: A Systems Action Research Approach”Associate Professor, Chair,
Management and Organization Department, De La Salle University

 OECD, Frascati Manual: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research

and Experimental Development, OECD: Paris.2002

 Professor Andrew Cheetham, Growing a Research Culture, Address to

Academic Senate Friday 4th May 2007.

Submitted by:
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Ms. Firtname M. Lastname
(Contact No.: 0933-4835077)