Sustaining Change in Universities

by Clark, Burton R.

• ISBN13: 9780335215911
• ISBN10: 0335215912
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

What can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fast moving world of the 21st century?This is the central question addressed by Burton R. Clark in this significant new volume which greatly extends the case studies and concepts presented in his 1998 book, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities. The new volume draws on case studies of fourteen proactive institutions in the UK, Europe, Australia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States that extend analysis into the early years of the twenty-first century. The cumulative international coverage underpins a more fully developed conceptual framework offering insight into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities.This new conceptual framework shifts attention from transformation to sustainability rooted in a constructed steady state of change and a collegial approach to entrepreneurialism. It contains key elements necessary for universities to adapt successfully to the modern world.Lessons for reform can be drawn directly from both the individual case studies and the general framework. Overall the book offers a new form of university organization that is more self-reliant and manages to combine change with continuity, traditional academic values with new managerial values.Essential reading for university administrators, faculty members, students and researchers analysing higher education, and educational policymakers worldwide, this book advocates a highly proactive approach to university change and specifies a new basis for university self- reliance.

Author Biography

Burton R. Clark is Allan M. Carter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his career, he has taught at five leading U.S. universities: Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, and UCLA. He has published widely on the nature of university organization and the realistic possibilities of reform.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Part I: Sustaining Entrepreneurialism in European Universities	9	(88)
Sustainability at Warwick: A paradigmatic case	11	(13)
Strathclyde: Sustaining change in a place of useful learning	24	(14)
University of Twente: Balancing on entrepreneurial seesaws in a Dutch university	38	(12)
University of Joensuu: Balancing sustainability in a regional Finnish university	50	(11)
Chalmers University of Technology: Entrepreneurialism redeemed	61	(10)
From transformation to sustainability	71	(26)
Part II: Amplifying Variations in University Entrepreneurialism: Africa, Latin America, Australia, North America	97	(70)
Makerere University: Entrepreneurial rebound from the academic pits in Uganda	99	(11)
The Catholic University of Chile: Lessons from South America	110	(12)
Monash University: Seizing the revolutionary moment in Australia	122	(11)
Genetic entrepreneurialism among American universities Stanford University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Michigan; University of California, Los Angeles; North Carolina State University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Conclusion	133	(34)
Part III: The Self-reliant University	167	(18)
The entrepreneurial road to university self-reliance: Why many universities will not become entrepreneurial; Key features of entrepreneurial organization in universities; The modern pathway to university autonomy and self-reliance	169	(16)
Notes and references	185	(20)
Index	205