Mending the cracks in the ivory tower
Subtitle: strategies for conflict management in higher education
By: Susan A Holton, editor.
Contributors: Holton, Susan A.
Publisher: Anker Pub. Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bolton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration -- Case studies.; Conflict management -- United States -- Case studies.; Organizational behavior -- United States -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Faculty and administrators in higher education, with a particular focus on department chairs and deans.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's it all about? conflict in academia -- Susan A Holton; title: Administration in an age of conflict -- Gerald Graff; title: The Janus syndrome : managing conflict from the middle -- Walter H. Gmelch; title: Chairs as department managers : working with support staff -- Mary Lou Higgerson; title: Spanning the abyss : managing conflict between deans and chairs -- Ann F. Lucas; title: The cutting edge : the dean and conflict -- Nancy L. Sorenson; title: And never the twain shall meet : administrator-faculty conflict -- Judith A. Sturnick; title: Managing conflict on the front lines : lessons from the journals of a former dean and provost -- Clara M. Lovett; title: Student affairs and academic affairs : partners in conflict resolution -- Lynn Willett; title: Can we agree to disagree? faculty-faculty conflict -- Cynthia Berryman-Fink; title: Views from different sides of the desk : conflict between faculty and students -- John W. "Sam" Keltner; title: Student-student conflict : whose problem is it anyway? -- Janet Rifkin; title: Conflict resolution in the academy : a modest proposal -- Joel M. Douglas; title: Academic mortar to mend the cracks : the Holton model for conflict management -- Susan A Holton.