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.