Saving alma mater
Subtitle: a rescue plan for America's public universities
By: James C. Garland.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780226283869
Subjects: Public universities and colleges -- United States -- Finance
Description: Educator and administrator James C. Garland presents his plan for reforming America's public universities, arguing that costs are rising while the quality of education has decreased, and calling for a new compact between state government and public universities to make schools affordable and financially secure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where the money comes from; title: Market forces in higher education; title: Why public universities cannot restrain costs; title: The university prime directive; title: The faculty are the university; title: The cargo cult college; title: The blessing and curse of shared governance; title: What price shared governance?; title: The shape of things to come; title: Leadership begins with the trustees; title: The role of governing boards in the new era; title: Recruiting presidential leadership; title: Reforming the academic culture; title: A proposal for deregulation of public universities.