Greenwood Publishing Group : The Shifting Frontiers of Academic Decision Making

The Shifting Frontiers of Academic Decision Making
Responding to New Priorities, Following New Pathways
Series: ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education
Edited by Peter D. Eckel

0-275-98792-2/978-0-275-98792-3

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This edited volume explores the intersection of academic decision making with contemporary, cutting-edge challenges for which no simple solution exists. It moves the issue of decision making outside of the contested arena of stakeholder responsibilities, and presents a series of distinct and uniqe chapters that illustrate how colleges and universities are creating and sustaining dynamic and effective decision-making processes.

Reviews:

-This book serves as a very useful introduction to newcomers to university administration, and a fresh reminder to seasoned administrators that while some issues persist, others are continuously shifting. Recommended. Faculty and practitioners. —Choice

-This collection of eight essays focuses on changing ideas about academic decision making. Topics encompass challenges created by organizational structure, the changing environment of academe, the influence of research institutes and centers on an institution's decision making, the pursuit of revenue, using partnerships and alliances to create joint programs, and ad-hoc campus wide task forces. The roles of students, technology, and trustees are examined. —Reference & Research Book News

Endorsement From Gordon Gee, Chancellor Vanderbilt University

Peter Eckel and his colleague have confronted, boldly, serious issues facing the modern American university. Unfortunately, in many universities, academic decision making continues to follow a well-worn path. If truth be told, because of the changing environment in which American higher education now operates, a new approach to decision making must be developed, and the underpinnings ca using those new approaches must be understood. In Shifting Frontiers , the authors have clearly, unequivocally, and thoughtfully outlined the challenges surrounding academic decision making in our colleges and universities, as well as approaches that should be used to develop new ways of thinking and partnerships to ensure a constructive, modern decision making process for the times in our academic enterprise. This is a book about these times and for the time in which we presently live and work.

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