Wise Moves in Hard Times: Creating & Managing Resilient Colleges & Universities / Edition 1

by David W. Leslie, E. K. Fretwell, Jr.

Overview

Leslie and Fretwell have produced as good a book as I have seen in the timely field of higher education's response to it pervasive long-range financial dilemmas.
—D. Bruce Johnstone, university professor and former chancellor, State University of New York

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787901967
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/13/1996
Series:	Higher & Adult Education
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

DAVID W. LESLIE is professor and coordinator of the Higher Education Program at Florida State University. He is a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and a former associate editor of The Review of Higher Education. Leslie is coauthor of The Invisible Faculty (with J.M. Gappa, Jossey-Bass, 1993). E. K. FRETWELL, JR. is Chancellor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a former interim president of the University of Massachussetts system and former president of the State University of New York College at Buffalo.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

The Authors xxi

Part One: Hard Times

1 Common Lessons from Hard Times 3

2 Sources of Stress 29

3 Impact of Stress 53

Part Two: Searching for Solutions

4 Mission and Organization 77

5 Decisions and Conflict 107

6 Teaching and learning in a New Era 135

Part Three: Wise Moves

7 Analyzing the Institution’s Condition 165

8 Triage 195

9 Strategy and Realism: Promoting Enlightened Change 217

10 Resilience in Times of Fiscal Stress 245

11 Unfinished Business 277

References 289

Index 296

Editorial Reviews

Leslie (professor and coordinator, Higher Education Program, Florida State U.) and Fretwell (chancellor emeritus, U. of North Carolina- Charlotte) explore the causes and implications of reduced resources, increased accountability, and assaults from the media on universities, and report on the ways institutions adapt to stress through changes in mission, organization, teaching, and learning. They detail practices to help educational institutions become more resilient, and analyze markets, competition, and management and financial patterns. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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