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“cathy a trower”

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  • The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership

    Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards

    by Cathy A. Trower ...
    THE PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIPThe Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership offers a resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by putting into practice the groundbreaking model that was introduced in the book, Governance as Leadership. This proven model of effective governance explores how to attain proficiency in three ... Read more

    $67.00 USD

  • The Questions of Tenure

    by Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower, James Honan ...
    Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Where Tenure Does Not Reign

    Colleges with Contract Systems

    by Richard Chait, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Presents the experiences of campuses without tenure and campuses where faculty may choose tenure or contracts. Issues covered include academic freedom, faculty recruitment, selectivity, turnover, and reward structures. Answers the question, "What lessons can be learned from campuses with contract systems?" ... Read more

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  • The Questions of Tenure

    by Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, James Honan, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Practical Wisdom

    Thinking Differently About College and University Governance

    by Peter D. Eckel, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Co-published with This series of essays written for trustees and administrative leaders of universities and colleges draws on the authors’ extensive consulting experience, research into the dynamics of boards, and service as trustees, to focus on practical insights that will help readers improve governance. The authors have contributed a series of essays on governing well to Inside Higher ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Success on the Tenure Track

    Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction

    by Cathy Ann Trower ...
    Satisfaction ratings from tenure-track faculty at 200 institutions across the country reveal best practices and the key elements of workplace success.Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater clarity about tenure and experience higher levels of job satisfaction? And what makes an institution a ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

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  • Disciplining the Poor

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    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

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  • The New Public Service

    Serving, Not Steering

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    The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, ... Read more

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  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

    History, Institutions, Values

    Edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz ...
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it ... Read more

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  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • A Perfect Mess

    The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

    by David F. Labaree ...
    A history of higher education in America and an investigation into the secrets of its success: " A Perfect Mess should become a classic." — Times Higher EducationRead about America's colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree ... Read more

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