Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious
How can colleges and universities improve efficiency while preserving academic values?

Winner of the Typographic Jacket of the Washington Publishers

Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education’s costs are too high, learning falls short of objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable to change.

An expert microeconomist, Massy approaches the challenge of reform in a genuinely new way by applying rigorous economic principles, informed by financial data and other evidence, to explain the forces at work on universities and the flaws in the academic business model. Ultimately, he argues that computer models that draw on data from college transaction systems can help both administrators and faculty address problems of educational performance and cost analysis, manage the complexity of planning and budgeting systems, and monitor the progress of reform in nonintrusive and constructive ways.

Written for institutional leaders, faculty, board members, and policymakers who bear responsibility for initiating and carrying through on reform in traditional colleges and universities, Reengineering the University shows how, working together, administrators and faculty can improve education, research, and affordability by keeping a close eye on both academic values and the bottom line.

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Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious
How can colleges and universities improve efficiency while preserving academic values?

Winner of the Typographic Jacket of the Washington Publishers

Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education’s costs are too high, learning falls short of objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable to change.

An expert microeconomist, Massy approaches the challenge of reform in a genuinely new way by applying rigorous economic principles, informed by financial data and other evidence, to explain the forces at work on universities and the flaws in the academic business model. Ultimately, he argues that computer models that draw on data from college transaction systems can help both administrators and faculty address problems of educational performance and cost analysis, manage the complexity of planning and budgeting systems, and monitor the progress of reform in nonintrusive and constructive ways.

Written for institutional leaders, faculty, board members, and policymakers who bear responsibility for initiating and carrying through on reform in traditional colleges and universities, Reengineering the University shows how, working together, administrators and faculty can improve education, research, and affordability by keeping a close eye on both academic values and the bottom line.

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Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious

Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious

by William F. Massy
Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious

Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious

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How can colleges and universities improve efficiency while preserving academic values?

Winner of the Typographic Jacket of the Washington Publishers

Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education’s costs are too high, learning falls short of objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable to change.

An expert microeconomist, Massy approaches the challenge of reform in a genuinely new way by applying rigorous economic principles, informed by financial data and other evidence, to explain the forces at work on universities and the flaws in the academic business model. Ultimately, he argues that computer models that draw on data from college transaction systems can help both administrators and faculty address problems of educational performance and cost analysis, manage the complexity of planning and budgeting systems, and monitor the progress of reform in nonintrusive and constructive ways.

Written for institutional leaders, faculty, board members, and policymakers who bear responsibility for initiating and carrying through on reform in traditional colleges and universities, Reengineering the University shows how, working together, administrators and faculty can improve education, research, and affordability by keeping a close eye on both academic values and the bottom line.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421418995
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 03/15/2016
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

William F. Massy, a higher education consultant, is professor emeritus of education and business administration and a former vice president and vice provost at Stanford University. The author of Reengineering the University: How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious, he is the former president of the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Understanding the Traditional University
Problems and Opportunities
Assets Worthy of Preservation
Why Traditional Universities Do What They Do
Implications for Tuition and Cost Containment
Business Models and Value Propositions
2. The Reengineering Challenge
Flaws in the Academic Business Model
Building a Reengineering Portfolio
Implementation Considerations
Responsibilities for Reengineering
3. The New Scholarship of Teaching
Conceptual Underpinnings
Illustrative Applications
Two "Outside the Box" Proposals
Organizing for Improvement
4. The Cost of Teaching
Alternative Approaches
Design of Teaching Systems
Modeling from University Transactional Data
Extending the Model across the Campus
Areas of Application
5. Financial Planning and Budgeting
Envisioning University Information
Coherent Financial Planning
Coherent Resource Allocation
A Model for Balancing Mission and Margin
Conclusion
Appendixes
A. Teaching and Learning Principles
B. Course-Based ABC
C. Computer-Aided Course Design
D. Incremental Cost of Enrollment
E. Smart What-Ifs in the Course-Based ABC Model
F. Margin Equivalents for Start-Up Programs
G. Extensions to the Mission-Margin Model
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Paula Myrick Short

This book is a game changer. It cogently deals with the problem of long-term sustainability of universities by addressing the core problems of quality in relation to cost and margin. Massy builds a strong case for his 'reengineering tools' which any university leader would find remarkably helpful in tackling critical issues of quality-conscious cost containment.

Robert Zemsky

Reengineering the University is a tough love prescription for making the nation's colleges and universities more affordable by reengineering them to be more efficient. It is Bill Massy at his best.

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Reengineering the University spells out the efforts that William Massy has made throughout his extraordinary career to develop models to aid academic institutions in improving their cost efficiency and academic quality. Written in clear and concise form, academic administrators and faculty concerned about the future of their institutions should read it.

John J. DeGioia

Only Bill Massy could provide this perspective on an extraordinary moment in higher education, offering leaders a variety of adaptive tools and methods to engage this moment and strengthen the important work of creating sustainable futures for our universities.

From the Publisher

William Massy is a complex, deeply knowledgeable man: half hopeless romantic about the value and high purposes of higher education and half pragmatic engineer focused on costs, efficiency, and metrics. That combination proves to be just right for this wise and insightful book.
—Michael S. McPherson, The Spencer Foundation

Reengineering the University spells out the efforts that William Massy has made throughout his extraordinary career to develop models to aid academic institutions in improving their cost efficiency and academic quality. Written in clear and concise form, academic administrators and faculty concerned about the future of their institutions should read it.
—Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute

This book is a game changer. It cogently deals with the problem of long-term sustainability of universities by addressing the core problems of quality in relation to cost and margin. Massy builds a strong case for his 'reengineering tools' which any university leader would find remarkably helpful in tackling critical issues of quality-conscious cost containment.
—Paula Myrick Short, University of Houston

Reengineering the University is a tough love prescription for making the nation's colleges and universities more affordable by reengineering them to be more efficient. It is Bill Massy at his best.
—Robert Zemsky, Founder of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania

Only Bill Massy could provide this perspective on an extraordinary moment in higher education, offering leaders a variety of adaptive tools and methods to engage this moment and strengthen the important work of creating sustainable futures for our universities.
—John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University

Michael S. McPherson

William Massy is a complex, deeply knowledgeable man: half hopeless romantic about the value and high purposes of higher education and half pragmatic engineer focused on costs, efficiency, and metrics. That combination proves to be just right for this wise and insightful book.

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