Full Description
Based on the authors' experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of issues that confront America's higher education scene today. Those issue embrace such problems as: (1) the missions(s) of our colleges and universities and the development of critical thinking and/or employability; (2) the role of for-profit academic institutions; (3) the impact of online technology; (4) diffusion of power and achievement of consensus between administrators and faculty; (5) the importance of financial matters, embracing budgets, fundraising, and endowments; (6) the insidious problem of conflicts of interest; (7) the scandalous impact of big-time, big-money Division 1 sports on academe; (8) the growth of non-academic functions; and (9) the importance of leadership in consensual institutions and how leaders are chosen.
Contents
Higher Education in a Free Society
Formal Authority and Diffusion of Power
The Academic Pecking Order and Unionization of the Academic Staff
The Budgetary Challenge and Fiscal Responsibility
The Fundraising Challenge
Other Aspects of Fundraising
Conflicts of Interest and Division I Sports
Service Functions: A Secondary Source of Threats to the Academic Mission
The University President: The Leader's Job is Critical
Conclusion
Index
About the Authors
