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  • The University Next Door

    What Is a Comprehensive University, Who Does it Educate, and Can It Survive?

    by Mark Schneider, KC Deane ...
    The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding—they have been challenged to enroll and graduate more students, adopt new technologies that lower cost without sacrificing quality, and align program and curricular offerings with the skills that employers require. While these universities have a long history of adapting to change, today’s environment will likely test the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • How College Works

    by Daniel F. Chambliss ...
    Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's success, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Wellness Issues for Higher Education

    A Guide for Student Affairs and Higher Education Professionals

    Edited by David S. Anderson ...
    Wellness Issues for Higher Education is an essential resource that addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Organized around five dimensions of Wellness—Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Physical, and Spiritual—this book comprehensively covers key topics that contribute to students’ success in college. Each topical chapter includes ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Wisdom's Workshop

    The Rise of the Modern University

    by James Axtell ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Provost's Handbook

    The Role of the Chief Academic Officer

    by James Martin, James E. Samels ...
    A go-to resource to help provosts, deans, presidents, and trustees effectively meet the challenges of leading a college or university.As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administration's spokesperson to ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Organization of Higher Education

    Managing Colleges for a New Era

    Edited by Michael N. Bastedo ...
    Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply organizational and strategic planning concepts made familiar by business management. This book follows that model and explores the new and ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Governing Academia

    Who is in Charge at the Modern University?

    by Ronald G. Ehrenberg ...
    Public concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and his coauthors assert that understanding how academic institutions are governed provides part of the answer.Factors that influence the governance of academic institutions include how ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Community College Leaders on Workforce Development

    Opinions, Observations, and Future Directions

    by William J. Rothwell, Patrick E. Gerity, Vernon L. Carraway ...
    This book has two things going for it that are rarely combined—it is fundamentally purposeful and it is useful. As the authors point out, there is a trilogy of needs confronting any business leader with a change agenda and/or transitioning into a new top role: influence, coalition building, and performance consulting. Of the three, performance consulting has received the least amount of attention ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Leading from the Middle

    A Case-Study Approach to Academic Leadership for Associate and Assistant Deans

    by Tammy Stone, Mary Coussons-Read ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Pity the humble academic. Moving from a faculty position to an administrative office frequently entails gaining considerable responsibility-but ambiguous power. The hope of these two authors is that this volume will serve as a reference and a source of support for current associate and assistant deans and as a window into these jobs for faculty who may be considering such a role. Staff positions ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Flipped Approach to Higher Education

    Designing Universities for Today’s Knowledge Economies and Societies

    by Caroline Fell Kurban, Muhammed Şahin ...
    From the world’s first completely flipped institution, the authors address the socio-economic and socio-technical nature of today's world and how this impacts what is needed from the education sector, outlining how and why they adopted Flipped Learning as the transformative approach required to meet these needs, and definitively describe the organizational design process needed to establish a ... Read more

    $100.89 USD

  • Reengineering the University

    How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious

    by William F. Massy ...
    How can colleges and universities improve efficiency while preserving academic values?Winner of the Typographic Jacket of the Washington PublishersHigher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Challenges in Higher Education in 21st Century

    by Vinod Kumar Bansal ...
    This book provides a historical perspective on the development of the education system in India, highlighting the changing emphases within government policy. Since Independence, the education policies of successive governments have built on the substantial legacies of the Nehruvian period, targeting the core themes of plurality and secularism, with a focus on excellence in higher education, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD