Identifying third - millennium university characteristics to put forward a framework for Iranian universities in their movement from traditional universities to modern tradition

Considering the importance of universities in the media age, the formation of information gaiety, globalization and penetration of western cultures that has led to the change of some disvalues in to legitimate valves and has put academic society in to danger, the present study was done to offer a framework for institutionalizing characteristics of third. Millennium universities in Iranian universities the research is of survey descriptive type. At first 83 factors identified through reviewing relevant literature. Then a tentative framework and the conceptual framework statistical population consisted of all facvlty members of the universities in Istahan, the university of technology of Istahan , and medical university. To determine the final framework, a questionnair was administerd among 200 of the statistical population. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (mean, sd, and variance) and inferential statistics (factor analysis) were used, the main findings are as follows:1-formulation of the main factors and characteristics of third – millennium universities
2- formulation of an appropriate framework for Iranian universities, and construct validation of the factors through factor analysis the philosophy and aims of framework were confirmed by construct validation . In the conceptual framework, the combination of main factors changcd, and 83 sub-factors arranged under 6 main factors were distributed in 14 factors doing so, the final version was achieved.