Fixing the fragmented university
Subtitle: decentralization with direction
By: Joseph C. Burke, editor.
Contributors: Burke, Joseph C.
Publisher: Anker Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bolton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781933371153
Subjects: Public universities and colleges -- United States; Schools -- Decentralization -- United States; Educational change -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The fragmented university" / Joseph C. Burke; title: Governing boards of public research universities as conflicted necessities / Richard T. Ingram; title: Fixing the fragmented university: a view from the bridge / James J. Duderstadt; title: Recreating the faculty role in university governance / Roger Benjamin; title: Strategic direction and decentralization in public research universities / Daniel James Rowley, Herbert Sherman; title: Using the budget to fight fragmentation and improve quality / William F. Massy; title: Assessing institutional effectiveness and connecting the pieces of a fragmented university / J. Fredericks Volkwein; title: Accrediting the public university: part of the problem or part of the solution? / Ralph A. Wolff; title: Performance reporting: putting academic departments in the performance loop / Joseph C. Burke; title: Making students matter / George D. Kuh; title: Making a "great 'engaged' university" requires rhetoric / Richard A. Cherwitz, E. Johanna Hartelius; title: Transforming the University of Minnesota through strategic positioning / Robert H. Bruininks; title: A targeted path toward academic excellence at the Ohio State University / Karen A. Holbrook; title: Against all odds: Florida International University, a top, urban, public research university / Mayra E. Beers, Paul D. Gallagher, Modesto A. Maidique; title: The Kellogg Commission: glancing back, looking forward / C. Peter Magrath; title: Returning to their roots: putting unity, students, and public back into state universities / Joseph C. Burke.