About Me
Don co-ordinates research on quality management in higher education. He studies quality assurance and accreditation and their impacts, as well as university rankings and performance (indicators, contracts).
Don is involved in post-experience training and consultancy, including projects for higher education ministries, quality assurance agencies and higher education institutions across Europe, in Asia, the United States and Africa.
Expertise
Education
University
Quality Assurance
Reform
Ranking
Structural Reform
Governance
Performance
Organizations
Publications
Recent
Jongbloed, B. W. A., Vossensteyn, H. . J. J., van Vught, F., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2018). Transparency in Higher Education: The Emergence of a New Perspective on Higher Education Governance. In A. Curaj, L. Deca, & R. Pricopie (Eds.), European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies (pp. 441-454). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77407-7_27
Jongbloed, B. W. A., Vossensteyn, H. . J. J., van Vught, F., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2018). Transparency tools for higher education. In E. Hazelkorn, H. Coates, & A. C. McCormick (Eds.), Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education (pp. 560-574). (ElgarOnline Social and Political Science subject collection). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..
Jongbloed, B. W. A., Kaiser, F., van Vught, F. A., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2018). Performance agreements in higher education: a new approach to higher education funding. In A. Curaj, L. Deca, & R. Pricopie (Eds.), European higher education area: The impact of past and future policies (pp. 671-687). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77407-7
Westerheijden, D. F. (2018). University Governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Japan: Autonomy and Shared Governance after New Public Management Reforms. Nagoya Journal of Higher Education, 18, 199-220.
Kolster, R., de Boer, H. F., Westerheijden, D. F., & Vossensteyn, H. . J. J. (2018). Een verkenning van de kennisinfrastructuur onderwijsinnovaties in het Nederlandse hoger onderwijs: Rapportage voor het Nationaal Regieorgaan Onderwijsonderzoek. Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS).
Hladchenko, M., Westerheijden, D. F., & de Boer, H. F. (2018). Means-ends Decoupling at the State Level and Managerial Responses to Multiple Organisational Identities in Ukrainian Research Universities. Higher education research & development, 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1453786
Jongbloed, B. W. A., Vossensteyn, H. . J. J., van Vught, F. A., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2018). Transparency in higher education: The emergence of a new perspective on higher education governance. Paper presented at The Future of Higher Education, Bucharest, Romania.
Hladchenko, M., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2018). Means-ends decoupling and academic identities in Ukrainian university after the Revolution of Dignity. European journal of higher education, 8(2), 152–167. DOI: 10.1080/21568235.2017.1370384
Jongbloed, B. W. A., Kaiser, F., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2017). Improving diversity, quality and efficiency in Dutch higher education using performance agreements. Paper presented at 39th EAIR Forum 2017, Porto, Portugal.
Dattey, K., Westerheijden, D. F., & Hofman, W. H. A. (2017). Impact of accreditation on improvement of operational inputs after two cycles of assessments in some Ghanaian universities. Quality in higher education, 23(3), 213-229. DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2017.1407398
Kaiser, F., Jongbloed, B. W. A., Westerheijden, D. F., van Vught, F. A., Brouwer, O. G. . O., Kamminga, J. . J., ... de Zwaan, F. H. . F. (2017). Stelselrapportage 2016: Vierde jaarlijkse monitorrapport over de voortgang van het proces van profilering en kwaliteitsverbetering in het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek. Den Haag: Reviewcommissie Hoger Onderwijs en Onderzoek.
Lemmens-Krug, K., Westerheijden, D. F., & Torenvlied, R. (2017). Development of the concept ‘steering capacity in universities’. 1. Paper presented at 30th Annual CHER Conference 2017, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Westerheijden, D. F. (2017). University Governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Japan: Correlates of varieties of NPM and academics’ power in universities. Paper presented at 30th Annual CHER Conference 2017, Jyväskylä, Finland.
de Boer, H. F., File, J. M., Huisman, J., Seeber, M., Vukasovic, M., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2017). Structural Reforms in European Higher Education: Concluding Reflections. In H. Boer, J. File, J. Huisman, M. Seeber, M. Vukasovic, & D. F. Westerheijden (Eds.), Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes and Outcomes (pp. 269-287). (Palgrave studies in global higher education). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42237-4_13
Antonowicz, D., Kwiek, M., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2017). The Government Response to the Private Sector Expansion in Poland. In H. Boer, J. File, J. Huisman, M. Seeber, M. Vukasovic, & D. F. Westerheijden (Eds.), Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes and Outcomes (pp. 119-138). (Palgrave studies in global higher education). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42237-4_6
Boudard, E., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2017). France: Initiatives for Excellence. In H. Boer, J. File, J. Huisman, M. Seeber, M. Vukasovic, & D. F. Westerheijden (Eds.), Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes and Outcomes (pp. 161-182). (Palgrave studies in global higher education). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42237-4_8
de Boer, H. F., File, J. M., Huisman, J., Seeber, M., Vukasovic, M., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2017). Structural Reform in European Higher Education: An Introduction. In H. Boer, J. File, J. Huisman, M. Seeber, M. Vukasovic, & D. F. Westerheijden (Eds.), Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes and Outcomes (pp. 1-28). (Palgrave studies in global higher education). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42237-4_1
de Boer, H. F. (Ed.), File, J. M. (Ed.), Huisman, J., Huisman, J., Seeber, M. (Ed.), Vukasovic, M., & Westerheijden, D. F. (Ed.) (2017). Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes and Outcomes. (Palgrave studies in global higher education). Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42237-4
Kaiser, F., Jongbloed, B. W. A., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2016). Stelselrapportage 2015: Derde jaarlijkse monitorrapport over de voortgang van het process van profilering en kwaliteitsverbetering in het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek. Den Haag: Reviewcommissie Hoger Onderwijs en Onderzoek.
Federkeil, G., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2016). U-Multirank. A New Multi-Dimensional Transparency Tool in Higher Education. Journal of the European higher education area, 2016(3), 23-43.
van Broekhoven, K., Leest, B., Wolbers, M., Allen, J., Belfi, B., van der Velden, R., ... Westerheijden, D. (2016). Opbrengsten en kosten van excellentie: evaluatie van de Sirius-programma's. 2015(5), 52-55.
Hladchenko, M., de Boer, H. F., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2016). Establishing research universities in Ukrainian higher education: the incomplete journey of a structural reform. Journal of higher education policy and management, 38(2), 111-125. DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2016.1150232
Kolster, R., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2016). Convergence and divergence in the internationalisation of higher education. Paper presented at HKU-USC-IPPA Conference on Public Policy, Hong Kong, China.
Vossensteyn, J. J., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2016). Performance Orientation for Public Value: Dutch Myths and Realities in an International Perspective. In R. M. O. Pritchard, A. Pausits, & J. Williams (Eds.), Positioning Higher Education Institutions: From Here to There (pp. 227-245). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_13
Nokkala, T., Välimaa, J., & Westerheijden, D. F. (2016). Finland, university mergers and institutional profiling: One of twelve case studies produced as part of the project on structural reform in higher education. Publications Office of the European Union. DOI: 10.2766/118884
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Education
Supervisor of bachelor and master theses, as well as of PhD dissertations, all if connected with (quality in) higher education.
Affiliated Study Programmes
Bachelor
Master
Projects
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
(building no. 10), room 5115
Hallenweg 17
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
5115
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands