The shifting frontiers of academic decision making
Subtitle: responding to new priorities, following new pathways
By: edited by Peter D. Eckel.
Contributors: Eckel, Peter D.
Series: American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780275987923
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- Administration; Educational leadership; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges facing academic decision making: contemporary issues and steadfast structures / Peter D. Eckel & Adrianna Kezar; title: Centers, institutes, and academic decision making: addressing "suburban sprawl" through strategies for "smart growth" / William T. Mallon; title: Charging into the market: governance challenges created by the fit and fitness of commercial activities / Jared Bleak; title: The shared decision making in shared programs: the challenges of interinstitutional academic programs / Peter D. Eckel; title: The tenuous legitimacy of ad hoc decision-making committees / Matthew Hartley & Simi R. Wilhelm Shah; title: Beyond the yearbook, homecoming, and Greek week: a new insider-outsider paradigm of student involvement in institutional decision making / Adrianna Kezar; title: Technology and its impact on campus decision making: asking new questions and raising more complications / Dennis J. Gayle; title: Activist trustees in the university: reconceptualizing the public interest / Michael N. Bastedo.