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Book Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity

Download or read book Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity written by Adrianna Kezar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity empowers all administrators in higher education to engage in their work—to make decisions, hire, mentor, budget, create plans, and carry out other day-to-day operations—with a clear commitment to justice, sensitivity to power and privilege, and capacity to facilitate equitable outcomes. Grounding administration for social justice as a matter of daily work, this book translates abstract concepts and theory into the work of hiring, socialization, budgeting, and decision-making. Contributed chapters by renowned scholars and current practitioners examine the way higher education administration is organized, and will help readers both question existing structures and practices, and consider new and different ways of organizing campuses based on equity and social justice. Rich with case studies and pedagogical tools, this book connects theory to practice, and is an invaluable resource for current and aspiring administrators.

Book Higher Education  A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs

Download or read book Higher Education A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of higher education studies has expanded dramatically in recent years. This book provides a unique and comprehensive guide, including an inventory of 199 centers, programs, and institutes in the field, a essay analyzing the emergence and current status of higher education as an area of study, and a listing of 191 journals focusing on higher education. Together, these three resources constitute the more comprehensive overview of the field available anywhere. Philip G. Altbach’s essay ‘Research and training in higher education’ discusses the origins of the field, the central issues of concern in the research literature, and trends among centers and institutes focusing on higher education worldwide. The inventory, which constitutes most of the book, provides information on the centers and programs, including the names of staff members, focus of work, and relevant addresses and websites. The expansion in the number of journals in the field is illustrated in the journals listing, which provides information about editors, substantive focus, and addresses of journals throughout the world. This book is a unique resources and a benchmark for an emerging field.

Book Higher Education Administration

Download or read book Higher Education Administration written by Scott Newman and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few resources exist for individuals who wish to subscribe to a practical, applied learning approach to higher education administration. To that end, the book’s vignettes: 1) reflect the diversity of issues, roles, contexts and situations postsecondary leaders face—yet are uncommonly addressed in learning resources; 2) place learners in authentic higher education administrative circumstances in which they must respond; 3) facilitate further individual or collective exploration; and 4) may be adapted to a broad array of formal and informal professional development needs. The book’s scenarios include a broad assortment of exhibits (e.g., correspondences, articles, institutional policies, etc.) which allow learners to practice evaluating a range of information sources common in postsecondary administration. In addition, each vignette provides learners with guided opportunities to determine how and why they might respond in the situations presented, and offers chances to assess the responses of actual higher education administrators to authentic situations and challenges. ENDORSEMENTS: “Instead of management theory pronounced from on high, this collection presents 50 real-world situations typical of those higher education leaders grapple with daily. From impassioned-yet-questionable expenditure requests, to nasty intra-departmental conflicts, to intrusive elected officials, responses to these challenges make or break careers in academic administration. Read Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes to understand more fully the land mines that litter the landscape of university and college leadership, as well as how to navigate through them.” Kevin P. Reilly, President Emeritus and Regent Professor, University of Wisconsin System, and Presidential Advisor for Leadership, American Council on Education “In Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes, Scott Newman presents a series of cases based upon actual situations faced by practicing administrators. The cases apply to all levels of leadership and include situations dealing with ethics, peer relationships, interference from a former administrator, political issues with policy makers, fairness of resource allocation, competence of support department personnel, freedom of speech, and many others. This collection of cases is a valuable resource for both current and prospective higher education leaders. Thinking about possible responses to these vignettes will prepare leaders to deal with the situations they will no doubt face in real life.” George R. Boggs, President and CEO Emeritus, American Association of Community Colleges; Superintendent/President Emeritus, Palomar College “Higher education is at an incredibly dynamic point historically. Many of the assumptions about leadership in this tumultuous environment are under close scrutiny. Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes is a very practical and user-friendly group of case studies that allows thoughtful exploration of authentic situations. Each one of the scenarios raises a number of important themes relevant to postsecondary leadership in the 21st century. The text represents a best-practice approach for the preparation of current and future leaders for a range of challenging roles.” Gregg Garn, Dean and Presidential Professor of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, and Executive Director of the K20 Center, The University of Oklahoma “Scott Newman’s well-crafted Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Scenarios represents a unique and invaluable learning resource for any current or future higher education leaders—from graduate students to seasoned administrators. Finding another resource that facilitates such an authentic exploration of so many different dimensions of postsecondary leadership will be difficult if not impossible.” Gerardo de los Santos, President and Chief Executive Officer, League for Innovation in the Community College “Newman’s Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes is an invaluable, applied-learning resource for anyone interested in pursuing or advancing a career in postsecondary leadership. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this excellent collection of real-world, higher education administration case studies!” Mary John O’Hair, Dean of the College of Education, and Executive Director of the Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab, University of Kentucky

Book Management and Administration of Higher Education Institutions in Times of Change

Download or read book Management and Administration of Higher Education Institutions in Times of Change written by Anna Visvizi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experts and practitioners contributing to this volume reveal a complex reality of HEI today. The book links the debate on education to topical issues in politics, society and economy, including questions of technological progress, social responsibility, sustainability, well-being and, broadly understood, resilience.

Book Access to Higher Education

Download or read book Access to Higher Education written by Anna Mountford-Zimdars and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in the field. This pioneering text highlights the contribution of social theory to issues of access to education, with chapters introducing and drawing on the works of key interdisciplinary thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, Amartya Sen and Herbert Simon. It then moves to examines how theoretical perspectives can be applied to the contemporary challenges of forging more equal access, with examples drawn from a wide range of contexts, including the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa and Japan. Global in scope, this book documents the shared nature of the access challenge in a period when higher education is growing rapidly, but inequalities continue to be stark. It concludes by proposing a new direction for research and a reassertion of the role of the researcher as a social activist for disconnected and disadvantaged groups, equipped with the thinking tools needed to move the agenda forward. Access to Higher Education is a rigorous text for the global research community, with relevance to policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate students interested in social justice and social policy. It provides those with an academic interest in access and a commitment to enhancing policy with theoretical and practical ideas for moving the access agenda forward in their institutional, regional or national contexts.

Book Perspectives on Educational Administration and the Behavioral Sciences

Download or read book Perspectives on Educational Administration and the Behavioral Sciences written by University of Oregon. Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fall of the Faculty

Download or read book The Fall of the Faculty written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda.The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience--one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty.As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.

Book Higher Education Leadership

Download or read book Higher Education Leadership written by Sharmila Pixy Ferris and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique insider view of higher education, Ferris and Waldron skillfully showcase expert leadership, providing a rich and meaningful understanding of higher education leadership from across the nexus of existential, philosophical and practical concerns.

Book Higher Education Administration with Social Media

Download or read book Higher Education Administration with Social Media written by Laura A. Wankel and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New technologies provide new ways of delivering the programs and services of higher educational (HE) institutions. This book examines how social media are redefining what university communities are and the purposes and practices of the various functional areas in HE.

Book The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration

Download or read book The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration written by George S. McClellan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What issues and trends affect higher education and student affairs today? In this fully updated handbook, leading experts discuss the answer to this and other essential questions. They provide a definitive reference for student affairs professionals at all levels of administration and management. The handbook offers specific, practical advice as well as broad approaches to planning and problem solving. It contains modernized discussions on such critical topics as institutional mission, institutional governance, understanding campus environments, finance and budgeting, assessment, program planning, staff selection, training and evaluation, and much more.

Book Governance of Higher Education

Download or read book Governance of Higher Education written by Ian Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance of Higher Education explores the work of traditional and contemporary higher education scholarship worldwide, providing readers with an understanding of the assumptions, historical traditions, and paradigms that have shaped the scholarship on governance. Bringing together the vast and disparate writings that form the higher education governance literature—including frameworks drawn from a range of disciplines and global scholarship—this book synthesizes the significant theoretical, conceptual, and empirical scholarship to advance the research and practice of governance. Coverage includes the structures of governance, cultures and practices, the collegial tradition, the new managed environment of the academy, and the politics and processes of governance. As universities across the globe face a myriad of challenges and multiple stakeholder demands, Governance of Higher Education offers scholars, practitioners, and higher education graduate students an essential resource for advancing research and the practice of governance.

Book Perspectives on Higher Education

Download or read book Perspectives on Higher Education written by Burton R. Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities

Download or read book Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities written by Nathan, M. Sorber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these inform contemporary innovations in the sector. Chapters address intellectual, organizational, social, and political movements which occurred across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and have impacted the policies, scholarship, and practices enacted at a variety of public and private institutions throughout the United States. Topics addressed include the politics of racial segregation, the place of religion in Higher Education, and models of leadership. Through rigorous historical analyses of education reform cases, this text puts forward useful lessons on how colleges and universities have navigated change in the past, and may do so in the future. This text will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of Higher Education, administration and leadership, as well as the history of education and educational reform.

Book The Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research

Download or read book The Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research written by Stefanie Schwarz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the US, the university administration runs its own office of “insti- tional research” in order to base its decisions on systematic information. Furthermore, higher education research can rely on a relatively stable academic basis if study programmes on higher education exist. Again, this is most frequently the case in the United States. Finally, governments and other macro-societal actors sometimes have their own offices or institutes of policy research and prepare the policies of the actors they report to. In addition, research on higher education can be institutionalized in a - riety of ways. Often, research institutes on higher education are quite visible. They were established as specialized research units within or outside insti- tions of higher education; but no common institutional basis can be observed for this type of institution across the countries. Third, the major themes of research on higher education also differ - tween countries. It has frequently been said that in European countries it was more prone to analyse macro-societal issues of higher education, whereas in the US it tended to study the inner life of higher education institutions, s- dents, and the teaching and learning processes.

Book Business Practices in Higher Education

Download or read book Business Practices in Higher Education written by Mark A. Kretovics and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Practices in Higher Education is a breakthrough guide offering higher education and student affairs professionals an understanding of the fundamental business nature of colleges and universities. The author discusses the practical applications of business concepts and models and how these applications can contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of higher education institutions. Useful examples from a wide range of institutions—including small privates, large publics, and community colleges—illustrate these concepts. This professional guide is organized into the following four sections: Environment and Structure Finance and Funding People and Processes Perspectives on the Future Business practices pervade the academic, student affairs, and administrative sides of higher education. This book affords readers a greater understanding of the true nature of higher education and an appreciation for how the academy effectively incorporates business practices into everyday work lives.

Book A Gubernatorial View of Public Higher Education

Download or read book A Gubernatorial View of Public Higher Education written by Gene A. Budig and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: