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Nonprofit Management Education U.S. and World Perspectives

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Michael O'Neill, Kathleen Fletcher

ISBN: 0-275-96115-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96115-2

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176 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 10/30/1998

List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £73.95)

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Description: The rapidly growing trend of higher education programs specially tailored for managers of nonprofit agencies is no more than fifteen years old, but now these programs include thousands of students at nearly one hundred universities and colleges worldwide. Business management education developed at the turn of the century, and public management began education in the 1930s; now nonprofit management education is emerging in a comparable way. This book charts the growth of and addresses the major issues and controversies surrounding this new field.

The collection includes both academics and practitioners reporting their research findings and experiences with nonprofit management education. Major issues include the growth of nonprofit management as an academic field, the academic and political problems facing the field, curricular and instructional issues including new technologies such as distance learning, and the debate over whether such programs should be housed in schools of business, public administration, or in their own separate programs. The book also explores ways and means by which nonprofit management education can most effectively serve nonprofit practitioners.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Nonprofit Management Education: History, Current Issues, Future by Michael O'Neill
Nonprofit Management Education: Current Offerings and Practices in University-Based Programs by Naomi B. Wish and Roseanne M. Mirabella
Dilemmas Facing Nonprofit Management Education: The Australian Example by Mark Lyons
Opening up Nonprofit Management Development: Lessons from the Open University's Voluntary Sector Management Programme Management by Chris Cornforth, Rob Paton, and Julian Batsleer
Management Education for the Irish Voluntary Sector: First Steps in Program Design by Gemma Donnely Cox and Geoffrey MacKechnie
Nonprofit Management Education: Recommendations Drawn from Three Stakeholder Groups by Mary Tschirhart
Nonprofit Undergraduate Education: Delivery Models for Curricula within the American Humanics Program by Norman A. Dolch, et al.
Higher Education in Volunteer Administration: Exploring and Critiquing the State of the Art by Jeffrey L. Brudney and Gretchen E. Stringer
Building for Nonprofit Sector Knowledge Base: Can Academic Centers and Management Support Organizations Come Together? by Rick Smith
Games Universities Play: An Analysis of the Institutional Contexts of Centers for Nonprofit Study by Dennis R. Young
Nonprofit Management Education: A Field Whose Time Has Passed? by Lester M. Salamon
References
Index

About the Author: MICHAEL O'NEILL is Founder and Director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management and Professor in the Department of Public Management at the University of San Francisco. /e He is the author of several books including EDUCATING MANAGERS OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS (Praeger, 1988). He is President of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action and an Associate Editor of the journal NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP.

KATHLEEN FLETCHER, M.P.A., is a consultant and researcher in nonprofit organization management. In her capacity as Director of Community Programs for the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management in 1996, she served as coordinator for the conference at which the papers in this book were first presented. She currently consults with nonprofit organizations in the areas of board development, strategic planning, and evaluation. She is an instructor in the nonprofit management programs at the University of San Francisco and has published research studies on board/executive relations, board diversity, and the effectiveness of consulting interventions in fundraising.

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