Failed grade : the corporatization and decline of higher education in America

XVI, 288 S.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The not-so-recent past -- The new financial imperative -- The organization -- Boards of trustees -- Boards of regents or state boards of higher education -- Faculty and tenure matters -- Students and their expectations -- Education versus indoctrination : how social and political agendas discourage independent thinking -- The problem with the leadership-selection process -- Attributes for administrative success and failure -- First days on the job -- Administrative sensitivity -- Ethics and the administrator -- Recruitment, retention, and termination of colleagues and subordinates -- Environment creation, decision making, and problem solving -- Maximizing the contributions of associates -- Administration compensation, financial decision making, and budget utilization -- Colleges and universities as money-generating machines -- The ballooning costs of higher education and who's worrying about it -- The legacy of faculty and academic administrators -- The murky future of higher education in the United States

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