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Subtitle: the corporatization and decline of higher education in America
By: by Albert H. Soloway.
Publisher: American University & Colleges Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Salt Lake City, UT
Language: eng
Subjects: Business and education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The not-so-recent past; title: The new financial imperative; title: The organization; title: Boards of trustees; title: Boards of regents or state boards of higher education; title: Faculty and tenure matters; title: Students and their expectations; title: Education versus indoctrination : how social and political agendas discourage independent thinking; title: The problem with the leadership-selection process; title: Attributes for administrative success and failure; title: First days on the job; title: Administrative sensitivity; title: Ethics and the administrator; title: Recruitment, retention, and termination of colleagues and subordinates; title: Environment creation, decision making, and problem solving; title: Maximizing the contributions of associates; title: Administration compensation, financial decision making, and budget utilization; title: Colleges and universities as money-generating machines; title: The ballooning costs of higher education and who's worrying about it; title: The legacy of faculty and academic administrators; title: The murky future of higher education in the United States.