Governing Academia : Who is in Charge at the Modern University?

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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 prov...

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Autor principal: Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > Administration.
Educational leadership.
Education, Higher > Administration.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Education.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Leadership en education > États-Unis.
Educational leadership > United States.
Education, Higher > United States > Administration.
Universities and colleges > United States > Administration.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • GOVERNING ACADEMIA; Preface; Introduction; I. Presidents, Trustees, and External Governance; 1. Presidents and Trustees; 2. Higher Education Boards of Trustees; 3. State Oversight of Academia; II. Internal Governance and Organization; 4. Darwinian Medicine for the University; 5. Herding Cats in University Hierarchies: Formal Structure and Policy Choice in American Research Universities; 6. Tiebout Competition versus Political Competition on a Universiry Campus; III. Governance in Practice; 7. How Academic Ships Actually Navigate; 8. Collective Bargaining in American Higher Education.
  • IV. Challenges from Nonprofits and Nonlegal Legal Influences9. Nonprofit and For-Profit Governance in Higher Education; 10. The Rise of Nonlegal Legal Influences on Higher Education; Conclusion: Looking to the Future; Appendix; Notes; References; List of Contributors; Index.

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