Smart Leadership for Higher Education in Difficult Times - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184980303X ISBN 13: 9781849803038

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

As the US economy emerges from the severest recession in a generation, large questions regarding its long-term ramifications for higher education remain unanswered. In fact, the harshest effects of the economic downturn are likely ahead as campus leadership focuses on enrollment, affordability and fundraising. This volume of essays examines the challenges and opportunities for advancing higher education's core missions of education, research and service in a resource-constrained environment.

Many parties will wish to return to the old normal, but fulfilling the mission of higher education will require implementing change in the face of opposition, gaining support from key stakeholders, and maintaining morale in the process. The new normal entails innovating to meet the needs for higher education among a growing population of potential students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, many of whom are ill-prepared for a college education and unaware of how to access it, and a population of mid-career students seeking to retool or reinvent themselves for the labor market. The economic success of both individuals and the US economy are directly dependent upon increasing the share of the population receiving a higher education. Chapter authors include college and university presidents and chancellors, and other senior administrators and thought leaders from the higher education community. They provide new and actionable information to enhance decision-making and inform strategic planning as well as a contemporary examination of the business of higher education and areas of potential new research.

This book is an excellent resource for academic administrators, as well as for researchers and students in business, management, economics, education and public sector economics.

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About the Author

Edited by David W. Breneman, University Professor and Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education, University of Virginia, US and Paul J. Yakoboski, Principal Research Fellow, TIAA-CREF Institute, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184980303X
• ISBN 13: 9781849803038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Breneman David W., Yakoboski Paul J.