Today, institutional leaders face numerous struggles: intervention from boards of trustees, alumni, and state legislators; decline in financial support from the states; and competition in an increasingly global marketplace. While it is agreed that effective governance structures allow institutions to respond creatively to these challenges, how ......
In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty. Burgan evokes the pervasive atmosphere of charge and ......
Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University
Research, teaching, service, and public outreach -- all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning -- disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must ......
Policy and Performance in American Higher Education presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those responsible for making and implementing higher education policy. Public institutions of higher learning are called upon by state governments to provide educational ......
As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. ......
While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia's sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas designed to induce creative discomfort. Completed shortly before his death in 2007, Higher Education and the New Society caps the career of one of ......
New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education
This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education -- and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three lenses: the feminist agenda as a work in progress, growing internal and external challenges ......
New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education
This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education -- and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three lenses: the feminist agenda as a work in progress, growing internal and external challenges ......
This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945 report to ......
