Governance in the Twenty-First-Century University : Approaches to Effective Leadership and Strategic Management


Dennis John. Gayle
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
New York : : Wiley, , 2011.
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1 online resource (162 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Governance in the Twenty-First-Century University: Approaches to Effective Leadership and Strategic Management; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Trends in University Governance; Challenges to University Governance Structures; Governance Structures in Historical Perspective; Governance, Management, and Leadership; Depicting Institutional Structure; Shared Governance; AAUP Versus AGB Perceptions; Accountability and Program Review; Structural and Cultural Elements of Governance; Organizational Culture; Trustees' Perspectives; Organizational Culture and Governance. - Appendix A: Public and Private University Enrollments, 1998Appendix B: Survey of University Governance; Appendix C: Organizational Culture and Governance; References; Name Index; Subject Index. - Competing Perspectives and ExpectationsExpectations of Faculty, Administrators, and Trustees; Facing the Fundamental Challenges; Governance from a Presidential Perspective; Evolving Issues in the Twenty-First-Century University; A Port for Every Pillow; Organizational Learning, Leadership, and Change; The George Mason Case; The Case of the Institutes of Business at the University of the West Indies; Governance: State and Campus Surveys; Toward a More Effective System; Governance: Attitudes and Perceptions; Emphases Emerging from the Literature; Governance and Teaching and Learning. - The Environmental Context for EducationOrganizational Culture and Learning; Governance, Information Technology, and Distance Education; The Impact of Information Technologies; New Models of Higher Education; Governance Structures and Educational Technologies; E-Learning: Policy Issues and Impact; Resource Allocation and Governance; Responsibility-Centered Management; Performance-Based Program Budgeting: The Basic Questions; Caveats and Adjustments to Responsibility-Centered Management; A Revised Model of Governance Structure in the Twenty-First-Century University. - Explores approaches to effective leadership and strategic management in the twenty-first century university that recognize and respond to the perceptions and attitudes of university leaders toward institutional structures. It examines the differences between treating universities as businesses and managing universities in a businesslike manner, what kinds of leadership will best address challenges, and how to gain consensus among constituents that change is needed. From historical background to modern e-learning techniques, we look at governance to find systems that are effectively structured
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078797174X

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