The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance (First Edition)

William G. Tierney (editor); Ellen Earle Chaffee; Larry A. Braskamp; Jon F. Wergin; Roger Benjamin; Steve Carroll; Peter T. Ewell; Kent M. Keith (contributors)

ISBN 10: 0801857155 / ISBN 13: 9780801857157

Editore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997

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First printing, with full number line. A very good copy in a near-fine jacket. A tight copy. Note: Light wear and curling to jacket edges. A crease on rear jacket flap and a couple creases on rear jacket cover. A few dog-eared pages, and just a couple pen notes in text (otherwise a fine copy).

Codice articolo FLAHIVE-744

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• Titolo: The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance (First Edition)
• Editore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801857155
• ISBN 13: 9780801857157
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto

These six contributions maintain that only fundamental changes will solve the endemic problems that plague colleges and universities. The authors focus on systems and structures, rather than on the leadership of particular individuals. They offer plans for generating internal responses to external demands and constrictions, and call for increased communication and involvement with society, decentralized and localized governance, and integration and coordination within the academy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Recensione

"The book's forward-thinking recommendations should provide useful guideposts as readers assess the challenges and constraints facing their own universities." -- Elaine El-Khawas, Studies in Higher Education

"This book may startle some people... Definitely food for thought." -- Virginia Quarterly Review

"The deliberately challenging essays provide both compelling arguments and practical discussions of the implications of these arguments... Like Tierney's other works... this volume is well edited, well written, and challenging." -- Choice

"This book is about getting out of the box. It is about rethinking fundamental assumptions of higher education. To survive and thrive in the next century, colleges and universities will have to be responsive in the eyes of those being served." -- Future Survey