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Academic Turnarounds
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 29.99This book will help trustees, presidents, and faculty members diagnose whether or not they are in denial over the true condition of the institution they are charged with preserving. Donors, state officials, accreditors, and others interested in the quality and vitality of American higher education will find direction in this book. more...
The Art and Politics of Academic Governance
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 31.99Using 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. more...
Cautionary Tales
Stylus Publishing 2012; US$ 29.99Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges with commentators predicting the demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or even 1,500 students. Are these trends inevitable,... more...
The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99Known as either 'soft' or 'hard' 'managerialism', 'new managerialism' or 'new public management', this new narrative has, irrespective of moniker, permeated the institutions of higher education almost everywhere. Taking this as its context, this volume is founded on a comprehensive international comparative analysis... more...
Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources. This book analyzes recent changes in institutional governance and management in higher education and their impact on the academy and academic work. It draws on findings from an international... more...
Codes of Conduct in Academia
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.00Chapters of this issue of New Directions for Higher Education present tenets of codes of conduct for the presidency, academic deans, admissions officers, fund-raising professionals, faculty who teach undergraduate students, and faculty who teach graduate students. The need for such codes of conduct stems from the client-serving role of colleges and... more...
College Organization and Professional Development
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 48.95A thought-provoking textbook written for students enrolled in graduate Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters and PhD programs, College Organization and Professional Development focuses on the framing of critical issues in organization practice, the gaps between moral beliefs and actions, and improving equity within organizations. This breakthrough... more...
The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99This book will examine the relationship between collegiality and the collegial tradition in the context of the development of mass higher education. The collegial tradition in higher education has been shaped above all by the collegiate universities. In all its various forms (as commensality, as a mode of governance, and as a critical force in shaping... more...
Community College Leadership
Stylus Publishing 2010; US$ 23.99Recognizing that future community college leaders at all levels will manage increasingly complex organizations, and face very different challenges than their predecessors, this book provides a multidimensional model of leadership suited to these new demands and environments. Through over 75 individual interviews with leaders and campus... more...
Contesting the Terrain of the Ivory Tower
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 44.95This study examines the leadership of three African-American women administrators in higher education, and how they have used their spirituality as a lens to lead in the academy. more...









