Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and UniversitiesThis critique of modern academia is also a proposal for making campuses more effective -- that is, better at meeting the clients' or customers' needs. The author addresses the problems that many academic institutions have today in clinging to the practices and organization of the past. By outlining the many problems in organization that colleges and universities face today, the author hopes to reveal workable solutions. |
Contents
Organizational Redesign | 21 |
The New Face of Leadership | 48 |
Faculty Productivity and Organizational Culture | 98 |
The Chiaroscuro of Reform | 121 |
The 21st Century Organization | 152 |
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