John Kowal

Faculty Decision-Making in Academic Departments of Two-Year Colleges

A Survey-Based Study of Faculty at Community Colleges in New York State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The academic department plays a key role in the
organizational life of universities and colleges
that collectively constitute the complex system of
higher education in the United States. Given the
pressure for change in academic institutions and the
critical role of academic departments in
institutional management, there is a need for better
understanding of departmental effectiveness, its
assessment, and its defining factors. It is of
substantial interest to know whether academic
departments function in true democratic fashion with
distributed authority for decision-making in vital
functional areas. It is likewise of interest to
know whether involvement of faculty in decision-
making in democratic fashion is related to
departmental effectiveness. The book attempts to
provide answers to these questions based on a
quantitative study of facutly decision-making in
academic departments of two-year colleges. The
findings in this book should be of special interest
to administrators and faculty at two-year colleges
and professionals in organizational leadership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9783639105858
• ISBN-10: 3639105850
• Artikelnr.: 25695861

Autorenporträt

John Kowal, PhD: Studied Educational Administration at the
University at Albany, State University of New York. Professor
and Chairperson of the Plant Science Department at the State
University of New York, College of Agriculture and Technology in
Cobleskill, New York.