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As private higher education institutions and offerings have flourished in Central and Eastern Europe over the last 15 years,1 many questions about their legitimacy, acceptance, and trustworthiness to deliver effective instructional programs have been raised. A previous study by this author (1999)2 underscored several key stages that many institutions of higher education travel on the road to achieving acceptance, public trust, and eventually legitimacy. Indeed, a correlative analysis incorporated in the 1999 article revealed that there is an identifiable continuum along the path to legitimation extending from institutional effectiveness to institutional viability to institutional legitimacy.3
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Giesecke, H.C. (2007). Gaining Legitimacy: A Continuum on the Attainment of Recognition. In: Slantcheva, S., Levy, D.C. (eds) Private Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604391_5
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