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Higher Education Administration: A Guide to Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues
by Norma M. Goonen, Rachel S. Blechman. 231 pgs.

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In higher education, decisions are made against a complex and often conflicting backdrop of applicable law, ethical questions, and practical considerations. Goonen and Blechman assist academic administrators by providing an overview of the legal parameters, ethical questions, and practical suggestions applicable to the most frequently encountered areas of academic decision making.

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Preface

Chapter 1: A Delicate Balance: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues

Notes

Chapter 2: Hiring Issues

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Chapter 3: Compensation and Employment Issues

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Chapter 4: Promotion and Tenure Issues

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Chapter 5: Terminations, Nonrenewals, and Reductions in Force

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Chapter 6: Academic Freedom

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Chapter 7: Student Disputes on Academic Matters

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Chapter 8: Transcript and Degree Issues

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Appendix 1: Values Audit Process

Appendix 2: Aaup "Statement on Professional Ethics"

Appendix 3: Aaua "Mission Statement and Professional Standards"

Appendix 4: Aaup "Statement on Conflicts of Interest"

Appendix 5: Aaup "On Preventing Conflicts of Interest in Government-Sponsored Research at Universities"

Appendix 6: Aaup "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, with 1970 Interpretive Comments"

Appendix 7: Aaup "Statement on Procedural Standards in Faculty Dismissal Proceedings"

Appendix 8: Aaup "Academic Freedom and Artistic Expression"

Table of Cases

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Managing Institutions of Higher Education into the 21st Century: Issues and Implications
by Ronald R. Sims, Serbrenia J. Sims. 214 pgs.

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Rising costs, shrinking enrollments, more diverse student populations, the need for adaptive management, the trend toward evaluation and assessment of programs and students will require proactive responses by college and university administrators in the 1990s and into the 21st century. This book provides analyses of the key issues that must be addressed. A key theme throughout is that administrators must view periods of financial stress as opportune times to eliminate outmoded facilities and equipment, reevaluate the roles of faculty and programs, and investigate service markets that may have been ignored in the past.

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Education

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Preface

REFERENCE

I ADMINISTRATION AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

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1: The University President: Academic Leadership in an Era of Fund Raising and Legislative Affairs

2: The 21st Century University: The Role of Government

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3: Funding Reality within Higher Education: Can Universities Cope?

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4: Developing a Campus Climate for Diversity in the 21st Century

II ACADEMIC CONSIDERATIONS

5: Reflections on Curriculum Innovation in Higher Education: The New Weatherhead MBA Program

6: Student Assessment: A Proactive Response for the 21st Century

7: A Framework for Developing Market-Responsive Programs in Higher Education

8: Teaching as Learning: The Case for Community College Scholarship

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9: Maximizing Unit and Individual Performance through More Individualized Faculty Roles

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III SERVICE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

10: Evolving University Research Centers: Vehicles for Technology Transfer

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11: Comprehensive University Extension in the 21st Century

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12: Information Management by Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century

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A Game of Uncommon Skill: Leading the Modern College and University
by Gene A. Budig. 128 pgs.

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Grappling with the needs of trustees, students, parents, academic staff, and public policymakers, today's college and university presidents and chancellors face substantial--and risky--challenges. The author shares his insights with disarming clarity and candor. His broad experience elucidates the "uncommon skills" required to survive, and prosper, in the little-taught and rarely understood profession of university leadership.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: U.S. Colleges and Universities Today: Simply the Best

Chapter 2: Students Not Fooled

Chapter 3: The Faculty Remains

Chapter 4: Trustees Are Human, Too

Chapter 5: Courting the “older Students”—the Alumni

Chapter 6: Some Ceos Fear the Media

Chapter 7: Need for Public Relations

Chapter 8: Judged by Their Appointees

Chapter 9: The Provost, First Among Equals

Chapter 10: Counselor Turned Bureaucrat

Chapter 11: Importance of the “numbers Person”

Chapter 12: The Aide, No Ego Required

Chapter 13: Speak Less, Offer More

Chapter 14: Role of the Support Staff

Chapter 15: Knowing the Locals

Chapter 16: The Presidential Search, Then and Now

Chapter 17: What Leaders Must Do

Chapter 18: One Step at a Time

Chapter 19: Institutional Governance

Chapter 20: President as Teacher

Chapter 21: President as Fund-Raiser

Chapter 22: Political Realities

Chapter 23: Working with Governors, Legislators

Chapter 24: The Spouse and Children

Chapter 25: An Agent for Social Change

Chapter 26: The Lost Weekend

Chapter 27: Learning Connection

Chapter 28: A Powerful Force, the Private Foundation

Chapter 29: Major League Baseball and Higher Education

Chapter 30: Parting Thoughts

Afterword: an Unanticipated Challenge

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Cost Containment for Higher Education: Strategies for Public Policy and Institutional Administration
by William Brand Simpson. 255 pgs.

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Simpson identifies strategies for cost containment or cost reduction in higher education and discusses these strategies in light of their effect on the quality of the learning experience, the future of the academic profession, and the implications for society. The emphasis is on the objectives to be served, rather than the resolution of financial difficulties on the revenue side or on crisis management. Some of the strategies discussed are applicable at particular levels of government; some relate to interinstitutional arrangements; and others are options for individual institutions.

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Introduction

1: Strategies of a Philosophical and Political Nature

2: Strategies of a Financial Nature

3: Educational Need as an Upper Bound

4: Strategies That Compare Costs and Benefits

5: Strategies Requiring General Acceptance

6: Improving Cost-Effectiveness on the Quality Side

7: Containing Total Cost Through Tuition Policy

8: Cost Containment Through Interinstitutional Arrangements

9: Containment of Capital Outlays

10: Containment of Campus Operating Costs

11: Cost Containment Through Faculty Personnel Policy

12: Governance and Administration as Factors in Cost Containment

13: Strategic Use of External Evaluation

14: The Elusive Academy

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Modern Practice, Pragmatism, Philosophy in Higher Education Administration: Knowledge Leadership of the Chief Academic Officer, in College Student Journal
by Joseph Martin Stevenson. 7 pgs.

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Leadership in Higher Education: A Handbook for Practicing Administrators
by Bob W. Miller, Robert W. Hotes, Jack D. Terry Jr. 588 pgs.

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This handbook provides administrators with assistance in planning, controlling, directing, organizing, staffing, and coordinating within their organization.

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Preface

Notes on the Contributors

1: Administrative Organization in Higher Education

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2: Theories of Administration

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3: The Administrator's Task in Goal Setting, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Decision Making

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4: Organizational Design and Management

5: Leadership in Implementing Organizational Design and Defining Administrative Roles

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6: Systems Planning in Higher Education Administration

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7: Personnelling in Higher Education Staffing, Recruiting, and Evaluating

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8: Personnel Management: Faculty and Staff Evaluation Process

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Appendix I: Student Evaluation Form

9: Faculty Unionism: the Campus Crisis

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10: Collective Bargaining: a Winner or a Loser for Educational Personnel?

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11: Women Administrators in Higher Education: Cooperation or Conflict?

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12: Motivational Theories Applied to Higher Education

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13: Techniques and Strategies for Program Development and Evaluation

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Appendix 2: Delaware County Council for Higher Education Business Industry Survey

Appendix 3: Delaware County Public Schools Community College Survey Questionnaire

14: A Systems Model for Program Development and Evaluation

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15: External Groups, Communication, and Public Information

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16: Public Relations: a Critical Administrative Function

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17: Historical Aspects, Present Status, and Future Concepts for Student Services and Student Development

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18: Student Development Administrative Concerns and Application Modes

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19: Student Development Administration: the Leadership Task in Making the Process Work

20: The Finance Support Program

Appendix 4: Definitions of the Elements of Institutional Costs

21: What Administrators Ought to Know about the Instructional Program

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22: Protecting the Right to Learn: Selected Legal Problems Controlling the Quality of the Learning Environment

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23: Managing Affirmative Action in Higher Education Administration

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24: Voluntary Cooperation in Post-Secondary Education: the Promise for the Future

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Appendix 5: Selected Bibliography on Consortia

25: Learning Resources in Higher Education

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26: National Organizations and Higher Education Administration

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Selected Bibliography

Index

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Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas: Transformative Leadership in Higher Education
by William G. Tierney. 188 pgs.

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This book offers a different way of thinking about post-secondary curriculum by considering how institutional curricula can act as a critical agent for preparing students to participate in the democratic public sphere. Tierney demonstrates that the curriculum itself is a cultural product that institutions of higher education socially construct and that the manner in which the individual institution defines its curriculum commits it to certain philosophical and ideological choices. The result of a year's research that included over 250 interviews at seven colleges in universities throughout the U.S., the volume concludes with recommendations administrators and faculty may employ in the effort to advance democracy in their colleges and universities.

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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

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Preface

Introduction

I: A Conceptual Map of the Terrain

1: The Curricular Landscape in Higher Education

2: Interpreting the Terrain

II: Words

3: Cartographies: The Institutional Mission

4: Institutional Topography: The Curriculum

III: Voices

5: The Languages of Faculty Cultures

6: Trail Guides: Academic Administrators

IV: Transformative Leadership

7: Summing Up: Culture and the Curriculum

8: Transformative Leadership and the Democratic Imperative

Appendix: Design of the Study

References

Index

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Can Teaching Be Saved?, in International Journal of Public Administration
by Stephen J. Cimbala. 17 pgs.

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Policy Controversies in Higher Education
by Samuel K. Gove, Thomas M. Stauffer. 274 pgs.

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Introduction

Part I: Politics and Higher Education

1: Politics and Policy in Higher Education: Reflectionsw on the Status of the Field

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2: Politics and Higher Education: the Strategy of State-Level Coordination and Policy Implementation

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3: Regionalism and Institutional Proximity in Statewide Planning: Coordination Concepts and Principles to Counter Chaos

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4: Resource Allocation Policies for the Eighties

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Part II: Accountability and Equal Opportunity

5: Government Responsibility for Quality and Equality in Higher Education

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6: Higher Education's Evaluation Politics

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7: Accreditation: Issues for the Eighties

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8: The Influence of Accreditation on the Development of Traditionally Black Colleges in the Middle States Region

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9: The Fall and Demise of Affirmative Action

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10: Women in Higher Education Administration: Prospects and Institutional Policy Response in the 1980s

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Part III: Higher Education and Societal Needs

11: The Service Function of Higher Education Institutions: a New York Case Study

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12: U.S. Science Manpower and R & D Capacity: New Problems on the Horizon

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Part IV: The International Perspective

13: "The Hot and Cold Wind of Politics": Planning Higher Education in Africa

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14: Policy Controversies in Higher Education Finance: Comparative Perspectives on the U.S. Private Public Debate

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Bibliographical Essay

Index

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Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
by Annette Kolodny. 316 pgs.

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Revealing and compelling, "Failing the Future" explores the present state of higher education in the United States, and offers a sobering view of what lies ahead.

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Acknowledgments

A Personal Preface: Reflections on Five Years in a Dean's Office

1: Facing the Future: An Introduction

2: 60 Minutes" at the University of Arizona: The Polemic Against Tenure"

3: Raising Standards While Lowering Anxieties: Rethinking the Promotion and Tenure Process

4: Paying the Price of Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment

5: Creating the Family-Friendly Campus

6: Teaching and Learning in a World of Cognitive Diversity

7: Setting an Agenda for Change

8: Failing the Future; Or, How to Commit National Suicide at the End of the Twentieth Century

A Closing Refrain: Reflections at a Graduation

Appendix I. University of Arizona College of Humanities Promotion and Tenure Procedures

Appendix 2. Summary Checklist of Selected Family-Friendly Initiatives and Programs

Works Cited

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Higher Education in Transition: The Challenges of the New Millennium
by Joseph Losco, Brian L. Fife. 231 pgs.

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This book explores the state of higher education at century's end and the challenges awaiting it in the next millennium. It assesses changes in the student population, the role of faculty, spending patterns, government support, the role of intercollegiate athletics, the nature of presidential leadership, and the impact of technological change. This volume is a call to educators, parents, and taxpayers alike to enter into a dialogue about the future directions of higher education that they are willing to support.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1: The American College Student: Three Decades of Change

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2: The Changing Role of Faculty

3: Higher Education Spending: Assessing Policy Priorities

APPENDIX A: Variable Descriptions

APPENDIX B: Carnegie Foundation Classification Codes

APPENDIX C: Carnegie Foundation Classification Codes

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4: The Higher Education Policy Arena: The Rise and Fall of a Community

5: Past and Future Pressures and Issues of Higher Educat