Title |
Saving alma mater : a rescue plan for America's public universities / James C. Garland. |
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Publication Info. |
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009. |
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Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department
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378.106 GA |
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Description |
xxii, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-261) and index. |
Contents |
Where the money comes from -- Market forces in higher education -- Why public universities cannot restrain costs -- The university prime directive -- The faculty are the university -- The cargo cult college -- The blessing and curse of shared governance -- What price shared governance? -- The shape of things to come -- Leadership begins with the trustees -- The role of governing boards in the new era -- Recruiting presidential leadership -- Reforming the academic culture -- A proposal for deregulation of public universities. |
Subject |
Public universities and colleges -- United States -- Finance.
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ISBN |
9780226283869 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226283860 cloth alkaline paper |
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