Susan R. Pierce

Governance Reconsidered

Mitarbeit: Trachtenberg, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revamp senior administration organization for more effective governance

Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive takes an in-depth look at the current practice of governance in higher education and explores solutions for more effective functioning. Written by a former college president, the book provides an insider's perspective on the growing tensions around the traditional shared governance model and identifies the key challenges facing trustees, presidents, senior administrators, and faculty.
Traditional shared governance operations are typically time-consuming, process-laden, and slow to respond to the internal and external forces acting upon modern educational institutions. Higher education is facing increasing political and economic pressure, and senior administration frequently needs the flexibility to make institutional decisions quickly. Using recent public scandals as examples, Governance Reconsidered illustrates how the tension between the need for timely decisions and action versus the importance of mission and academic quality is creating a dramatic systemic problem. The book provides practical advice on the issues at the heart of the matter, including:
The nature and pace of change on campus, including the pressures facing higher education
Clarity about the roles and responsibilities of trustees, the president, and the faculty
The campus community's role in decision-making activities
How thriving universities can govern collaboratively

The book also addresses the brand new challenges that affect higher education governance, including MOOCs, online learning, and rising questions about value and cost. Campus leaders must work together effectively to boost higher education, and Governance Reconsidered contains the questions and answers integral to implementing effective governance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781118738498
• ISBN-10: 1118738497
• Artikelnr.: 39872480

Autorenporträt

SUSAN RESNECK PIERCE is president emerita of the University of Puget Sound. As president of SRP Consulting, she advises colleges and universities on planning, effective board and presidential performance, board development, governance, and fundraising. She is the author of On Being Presidential: A Guide for College and University Leaders (Jossey-Bass, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi About the Author xxv 1. Shared
Governance: Its History and Its Challenges 1 The Pressures on Shared
Governance 3 Differences in How Shared Governance Has Been Practiced 6 The
History of Shared Governance 7 Differences over the Nature and Pace of
Change 13 Pressures on Trustees, Presidents, and Faculty to Change 23 2.
The Impact of Financial Pressures on Governance 25 The Causes of Financial
Pressures 26 Efforts to Control Tuition and Limit Growing Financial Aid 33
The Dangers of Business as Usual in Times of Budget Problems 37 A
Successful, Proactive Approach to Financial Pressures 42 3. The Impact on
Governance of Contingent Faculty, Online Learning, and MOOCs 45 Reliance on
Contingent Faculty Affects Governance 46 Online Courses and MOOCs 58 4. The
Impact on Governance of Questions About Higher Education's Value and Cost
69 Higher Education Is Vulnerable to Criticism 70 Claims That Colleges Are
Failing to Educate Students 75 Elected Officials Seek to Influence Higher
Education 78 Trustees Are Assuming More Activist Roles 87 5. Cautionary
Tales: Protests of Presidential Actions and Lessons for Shared Governance
89 Chief Financial Officers Seek Academic Cost Reductions 90
Recommendations for Presidents 109 6. Cautionary Tales: Faculty Failures
and Recommendations for Collaboration 123 Case Studies: Faculties That
Resist Administrative Decisions 125 Recommendations for Faculty Members 141
7. Cautionary Tales: Boards That Fail to Fulfill Their Fiduciary
Responsibilities and Recommendations for Changes 153 Examples of Boards
Failing to Provide Oversight 154 Lessons Learned 167 Recommendations for
Boards 167 The Complexity of Terminating a President 169 Recommendations
for Boards That Are Confronted with Concerns About Presidential Performance
170 8. Exemplary Tales: Successful Presidents 185 The University of
Maryland, Baltimore County 188 Kettering University 191 American
International College 194 Pitzer College 197 Commonalities 199 Resources
201 References 203 Index 215