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Call to Purpose : Mission-Centered Change at Three Liberal Arts Colleges.
A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | RoutledgeFalmer studies in higher education.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: More Than Just Mission
- Chapter 2 A Thematic Account of the Development of Institutional Purpose; About the selection of sites; A word about time frames; Institutional malaise; Ending the stalemate; Creating a mandate for change; Toward a common purpose; Implementing the vision; Struggles over ideology: True believers and naysayers; The dark side of change; Discovering you've arrived: Symbols of Success; Reaching the end of the life cycle of change; Chapter 3 The Search for Purpose as Institutional Revitalization.
- A crisis of purposeRejection of the status quo and building the consensus for change; Arriving at a new vision; Birth of a Movement: True believers, supporters, fence sitters and naysayers; Implementing the vision; Realizing the vision and the social construction of success; Mission creation as a socio-cultural movement; Comparing belief systems: Then and now; Toward a new ideology; Chapter 4 The Power, Politics, and Pathology of Ideologically Based Change; The politics of advancing a new vision; Rewriting the social contract; Pushing for change; Securing change; Constructing the enemy.
- Witch-hunting at OlivetAn analysis of the witch hunt; Chapter 5 Sustaining A Sense of Purpose and the Social Construction of Success; New programs and policies; Betterment of institutional life; Enhanced attractiveness of the community; Challenging members' conceptions of success; The inestimable value of success; Tempered idealism; Sustaining community; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Findings; Leadership in the cultural realm; Future research; Appendix A Research Design and Methodology; Bibliography; Index.