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  • The Art and Politics of Academic Governance

    Relations among Boards, Presidents, and Faculty

    by Colleen O'Brien Sathre, Kenneth P. Mortimer ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces. Mortimer and Sathre have gone beyond a discussion of faculty/administrative behavior by focusing on what happens when the legitimate governance claims of faculty, trustees, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 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

  • Higher Education Assessments

    Leadership Matters

    by Raymond Barclay, Bryan D. Bradley, Peter J. Gray, Coral Hanson, Trav D. Johnson, Jillian Kinzie, Thomas E. Miller, John Muffo, Danny Olsen, Russell T. Osguthorpe, John H. Schuh, Kay H. Smith, Trudy Bers, Vasti Torres ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • The Moral University

    by Maurice R. Berube, Clair T. Berube ...
    The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectiveness of moral reasoning courses in the curriculum and the growth of leadership courses. The book deals with the myriad ways in which universities act positively toward their communities. It also examines the involvement of universities in ... Read more

    $29.19 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

  • 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

  • Transforming a College

    The Story of a Little-Known College's Strategic Climb to National Distinction

    by George Keller ...
    George Keller’s case study of Elon University’s transformation from a struggling college with a limited endowment into a top regional university is now available in paperback.Ten years after the publication of Transforming a College, Elon University continues to thrive as a school that reinvented itself and its community around the idea of inspiring and guiding students. George Keller’s now ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Performance

    The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations

    by Nathan Harris, Kathryn Thirolf, James Webb, Richard L. Alfred ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about results the organization is generating? Answers to these questions require a framework for analysis ... Read more

    $74.59 USD

  • Managing Diversity Flashpoints in Higher Education

    by Joseph E. Garcia ...
    Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings. The authors provide a systematic guide to addressing interpersonal conflicts that arise out of issues of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Winds of Freedom

    Addressing Challenges to the University

    by Prof. Gerhard Casper ...
    As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit, and courage, confront head-on the most pressing concerns facing our nation’s universities. From affirmative action and multiculturalism to free speech, politics, public service, and government ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Leadership in Theological Education, Volume 2

    Foundations for Curriculum Design

    Edited by Fritz Deininger, Orbelina Eguizabal ...
    Series series ICETE Series
    The ICETE Programme for Academic Leadership (IPAL) was officially established in 2010 and arose out of the need to provide training to theological institutions in different regions of the world. IPAL provides a three-year cycle of seminars for the professional development of evangelical academic leaders and administrators to help institutions in their pursuit of quality and excellence in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD