The Mission Orientation of Universities is an Effective Step in Higher Education Governance

Governance in the higher education system is a necessity, and its success in our country for the production of science and knowledge depends on the university's adherence to principles and good governance; This means that the university must be accountable to society, people and civil institutions and rely on the participation of academics and students. For this purpose, one of the ways that higher education institutions can achieve these goals by resorting to is the formulation of the university's mission statement. The mission statement is the basis of strategic plans and development of models for continuous assessment of progress with the university.

Based on this, firstly, the assigned mission of each university has been determined with a qualitative method and through interviews and the study of electronic documents, in terms of their functional level as well as the topic of their activities, so that the university can adjust its vision and goals accordingly.

The results of this study show that by making the country's universities mission-oriented, the important indicators of good governance of higher education such as effectiveness and efficiency, justice, clarity of powers and duties, accountability, meritocracy, participation and independence will be realized.

The results show that in some cases, the environmental opportunistic indicators for the university were at a high level, which led to the improvement of the university's final integrated level of achievement and the level of its mission. which is not far from expected considering the compensation of the multi-criteria method used. This issue indicates that not paying attention to the external environmental conditions of any university can lead to an incomplete understanding of its position, and as a result, the allocation of resources will not have a favorable and optimal situation. In this study, for the first time, attention has been paid to the external environment of each university in evaluating its position.