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Locus of Authority : The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education /
"Locus of Authority argues that every issue facing today's colleges and universities, from stagnant degree completion rates to worrisome cost increases, is exacerbated by a century-old system of governance that desperately requires change. While prior studies have focused on boards of trus...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Historical Overview, Part 1, From the Beginnings to World War II. Antecedents in Europe and Colonial America ; The Emergence of the Research University ; Control of Faculty Personnel Decisions and Issues of Academic Freedom ; World War I and the Interwar Years
- Historical Overview, Part 2, World War II to the Present. World War II and the Growth of Sponsored Research ; The "Red Scare" and the Loyalty Oath Controversies ; The Explosive Expansion of Higher Education, Leading to the "Golden Age" of the 1960s ; Protests and Rebellions ; Retrenchment in the 1970s and Subsequent Ups and Downs ; The Real Estate "Bubble" Breaks and Fiscal/Political Realities Take Hold (or Do They?) ; The Impact of Experiments with Online Learning ; The Pathways Initiative at CUNY
- Faculty Roles Today and Tomorrow, Topical Issues. The Selection and Tenure of the President ; The Faculty Appointment Process : Criteria and Decision-Making Authority ; The Role of the Faculty in Giving Advice of All Kinds ; The Role of Faculty in Staffing Decisions and the Rise of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (the New Majority) ; Faculty Responsibility for Maintaining Academic Standards in Admissions, Curricular Content, and Student Performance ; Control over New Teaching Methods : Online Learning
- Overarching Challenges. Confronting Trade-offs and the Need for Upfront Consideration of Costs ; Aligning Roles and Responsibilities ; Coping with an Ever-Changing Academic Landscape ; Clarifying Notions of "Academic Freedom" ; Rethinking "Shared Governance"
- Case Studies. Introduction to the Case Studies ; The University of California ; Princeton University ; Macalester College ; The City University of New York.