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9780801440540

Governing Academia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801440540

  • ISBN10:

    0801440548

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-01-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

Public concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
RONALD G. EHRENBERG
1(8)
I Presidents, Trustees, and External Governance
1. Presidents and Trustees
JAMES O. FREEDMAN
9(19)
2. Higher Education Boards of Trustees
BENJAMIN E. HERMALIN
28(21)
3. State Oversight of Academia
DONALD E. HELLER
49(22)
II Internal Governance and Organization
4. Darwinian Medicine for the University
SUSANNE LOHMANN
71(20)
5. Herding Cats in University Hierarchies: Formal Structure and Policy Choice in American Research Universities
THOMAS H. HAMMOND
91(48)
6. Tiebout Competition versus Political Competition on a University Campus
JOHN DOUGLAS WILSON
139(26)
III Governance in Practice
7. How Academic Ships Actually Navigate
GABRIEL E. KAPLAN
165(44)
8. Collective Bargaining in American Higher Education
RONALD G. EHRENBERG, DANIEL B. KLAFF, ADAM T. KEZSBOM, AND MATTHEW P. NAGOWSKI
209(26)
IV Challenges from Nonprofits and Nonlegal Legal Influences
9. Nonprofit and For Profit Governance in Higher Education
BRIAN PUSSER AND SARAH E. TURNER
235(23)
10. The Rise of Nonlegal Legal Influences on Higher Education
MICHAEL A. OLIVAS
258
Conclusion: Looking to the Future
RONALD G. EHRENBERG
276(5)
Appendix 281(4)
Notes 285(14)
References 299(14)
List of Contributors 313(4)
Index 317

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