How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make
Going to College tells the powerful story of how high school students make choices about postsecondary education. Drawing on their unprecedented nine-year study of high school students, the authors explore how students and their parents negotiate these important decisions. Family background, finances, education, informationall influence students' ......
American colleges and universities are poised at the edge of a remarkable transformation. But while rapid technological changes and increasingly intense competition for funding are widely recognized as signs of a new era, there has also been an unprecedented though silent demographic change in the profile of the faculty. In The New Academic ......
Each passing year sees the steady rise of tuition costs for American higher education. Issues of student loans, direct lending to institutions, and federally subsidized grants are a staple of news reporting. As colleges and universities across America grapple with ever-tightening budgetary restrictions, they develop new strategies to provide ......
Featuring a new introduction by the author, the paperback edition of Games Colleges Play chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990--from the early, glory days of Knute Rockne and the Gipper to the modern era of big budgets, powerful coaches, and pampered players. John Thelin describes how sports programs--although ......
Drawing examples and making recommendations based on their ownexperience as academic administrators and faculty members, distinguished scholars address the drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function.
Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. This book offers a different model, focusing instead on the complex ways that members of a leadership team interact, wield power, use language and create meaning. ......
''The next decade promises to be a challenging one for colleges and universities. This book explains why . . . The essays provide an informative historical guide of the past decade while also looking into the future of higher education.''--Christian Science Monitor.
The Management Revolution in American Higher Education
''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 ......
