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"A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them." -- Washington Post "George Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number of campuses have faced hard times creatively." -- Higher Education

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword(p. vi)
• Preface and Acknowledgments(p. viii)
• Part I
• 1. The New Tableau of Higher Education(p. 3)
• 2. The Great Leadership Crisis(p. 27)
• 3. New Management Wine in Old Academic Bottles(p. 40)
• 4. Slouching Toward Strategy(p. 72)
• 5. Planning: The Turbulent State of the Art(p. 99)
• Part II
• 6. Before Planning: Information, Quality, People(p. 121)
• 7. Shaping an Academic Strategy(p. 140)
• 8. Different Campuses, Different Processes(p. 164)
• 9. Tomorrow's Professors and Administrators(p. 171)
• Notes(p. 179)
• References(p. 194)
• Index(p. 205)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

George Keller has spent twenty-five years in higher education as a faculty member, college dean, and editor at Columbia University and as assistant to three presidents and chancellors at the State University of New York and the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of several national awards for education and science writing and is a frequent lecturer on higher education and strategic planning. He is now senior vice-president of the Barton-Gillet Company in Baltimore.