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Learning to Lead
Leadership is an activity that not only manifests itself in formal positions, but also bubbles up in various places within an organization. Perhaps given the importance of leadership to any endeavor, the literature on this topic has burgeoned. Yet among these titles, Learning to Lead stands out as one of the best texts available on leadership for college and university administrators. Critical skills such as managing people, resolving conflict, and making rational (and legal) decisions are explored within the context of the campus. The book also addresses the needs of those who facilitate leadership workshops, serve as mentors to potential leaders, and teach courses on higher education leadership and administration. While presenting all sides of key issues, the author calls for the reader to define his or her own position through a series of provocative reflection questions in each chapter. Thus the book invites interaction and teaches administrators not what to think about leadership, but how to think about it.
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field-the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. It reviews how higher education as a field of study has evolved in China since 1978 and how the field has been shaped by political and social forces, as well as institutional culture. Xin Wang argues that higher education is becoming an interdisciplinary field rather than a subfield under the discipline of education, especially when higher education has become an enterprise with such a broad scope in China. Wang also expresses a belief that ...
Leadership through Collaboration
This book is organized around 11 topics, including the skills and personal qualities needed to provide effective academic leadership; strengthening the infrastructure for academic affairs through strategic planning, facilities planning, and technology integration; the importance of developing new resources and linking them to academic priorities; academic entrepreneurship; assessing academic quality and improving programs and services; continuous improvement; the central importance of investing in the faculty; and improving academic decisions. The chief academic officer must be the voice for the campus's academic purposes and a source of energy in supporting the activities of others. Collabo...
Higher Education in the United States
Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity. In the years following World War II, college and university enrollment doubled, students revolted, faculty unionized, and community colleges evolved. Tuition and technology soared, as did the number of first-generation, minority, and women students. These changes radically transformed the American system of postsecondary education. Today, that system is in trouble. Its aging professoriate prepares for retirement, but low academic salaries can no longer attract the best minds to replace them. A flood of...
Higher Education Outside the Academy
Addresses joint initiatives and programs from higher education and business and industry outside the academy. Features college and university use of computer-based technologies to deliver instruction, the growth of the corporate university-training and human resource development, and college-developed training delivered on site to local businesses and industries.
A National Review of Scholastic Achievement in General Education
This study reports information on college students' learning in general education. It represents a first attempt to record on a national scale the achievement in general education for our college level population. The exam is described fully, as is the population of students and the institutions they represent. Following the presentation of the study's findings is a discussion of their significance.
Proclaiming and Sustaining Excellence
This report addresses trends and issues in assessment in relation to the role of college faculty, including advances in assessment that make it more congenial to faculty, different institutional approaches to assessment, and how assessment can be viewed as a faculty role. The report identifies major shifts in the assessment framework, changes in practice or assessment methods, changing policies governing assessment, and different institutional approaches to assessment. It suggests that six conditions are necessary if faculty is to view assessment as an integral part of its role. These include embedding assessment in a fiscal and policy context that supports innovation; basing assessment on e...
Assessing Faculty Publication Productivity
This report reviews the research literature on faculty publication productivity, with special emphasis on the ways in which gender is a factor in publishing productivity. An executive summary notes the following themes: (1) the existence of significant gender and race differences in publishing productivity; (2) the relationship of gender to traditional measures of publication quantity and quality; (3) possible reasons why relatively few faculty publish prolifically; (4) possible reasons why few women and minorities are among the prolific publishers; and (5) implications for practice. Chapter 1 describes patterns of faculty scholarly publishing productivity and how these vary by sex, race, an...
Faculty Compensation Systems: Impact on the Quality of Higher Education
Public debate over higher education has changed from questions about education, learning, scholarship, and professional service to performance criteria measured in quantitative, business-like indicators, such as revenues and costs of operation. The rules have changed, and new consumers have new concerns and challenges for higher education. Faculty compensation is one means an institution can use to achieve its mission, and it is a management tool academic administrators can use to meet external demands for cost control, faculty performance, and institutional quality. This report focuses on: (1) the link between the faculty compensation system and its impact on institutional mission and quali...
