Planning and Management for a Changing Environment: A Handbook on Redesigning Postsecondary Institutions (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

Peterson, Marvin W.; Dill, David D.; Mets, Lisa A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787908495 ISBN 13: 9780787908492

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1997

Synopsis

An outstanding roster of higher education scholars and practitioners come together to offer latest expertise on strategic and operational planning with emphasis on the importance of contextual planning?that is planning based in the unique circumstances and environment of each individual institution--as the only planning approach that will yield successful results.

The contributors include: Paul T. Brinkman, Ellen Earle Chaffee, Burton R. Clark, David William Cohen, Eric L. Dey, David D. Dill, Elaine El-Khawas, Rhonda Martin Epper, Peter T. Ewell, Ira Fink, Dorothy E. Finnegan, Fred J. Galloway, Harvey A. Goldstein, William H. Graves, Patricia J. Gumport, Raymond M. Haas, Terry W. Hartle, Robert G. Henshaw, Richard B. Heydinger, Sylvia Hurtado, Sarah Williams Jacobson, Dennis P. Jones, George Keller, R. Sam Larson, Bruce A. Loessin, Michael I. Luger, Theodore J. Marchese, Lisa A. Mets, James R. Mingle, Anthony W. Morgan, James L. Morrison, Anna Neumann, John L. Oberlin, Anne S. Parker, Marvin W. Peterson, Brian Pusser, Frans van Vught, and Ian Wilson.

About this title

About the Author

MARVIN W. PETERSON is former director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. DAVID D. DILL is professor of public policy analysis and education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From the Back Cover

An authoritative compAndium of the most current knowledge and strategies for academic planning.An outstanding roster of higher education scholars and practitioners brings together the latest expertise on strategic and operational planning. In twenty-seven original chapters, contributors offer insight to the challenge of positioning higher education institutions to meet the demands of their rapidly changing environments. In this comprehensive resource, the authors emphasize the importance of contextual planning, that is planning based in the unique circumstances and environment of each individual institution--as the only planning approach that will yield successful results.

From the Inside Flap

Planning and Management for a Changing EnvironmentAn outstanding roster of higher education scholars and practitioners brings together the latest expertise on strategic and operational planning. In twenty-seven original chapters, contributors offer insight into the challenge of positioning higher education institutions to meet the demands of their rapidly changing environments. In this comprehensive resource, the authors emphasize the importance of contextual planning?that is, planning based in the unique circumstances and environment of each individual institution?as the only planning approach that will yield successful results.The contributors include: Paul T. Brinkman, Ellen Earle Chaffee, Burton R. Clark, David William Cohen, Eric L. Dey, David D. Dill, Elaine El-Khawas, Rhonda Martin Epper, Peter T. Ewell, Ira Fink, Dorothy E. Finnegan, Fred J. Galloway, Harvey A. Goldstein, William H. Graves, Patricia J. Gumport, Raymond M. Haas, Terry W. Hartle, Robert G. Henshaw, Richard B. Heydinger, Sylvia Hurtado, Sarah Williams Jacobson, Dennis P. Jones, George Keller, R. Sam Larson, Bruce A. Loessin, Michael I. Luger, Theodore J. Marchese, Lisa A. Mets, James R. Mingle, Anthony W. Morgan, James L. Morrison, Anna Neumann, John L. Oberlin, Anne S. Parker, Marvin W.Peterson, Brian Pusser, Frans van Vught, and Ian Wilson.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787908495
• ISBN 13: 9780787908492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608