Author: Rahnl A. WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Cost Containment and Continuous Quality Improvement in Higher Education
Author: Rahnl A. WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Honoring the Trust
Author: William F. MassyPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Honoring the trust achieves three major goals: 1) to describe and document the problems facing today's colleges and universities, 2) to offer a vision of what the solutions to these problems will look like, and 3) to provide practical guidance for those who would be change agents or drivers of change."--Page 2 of cover.
Continuous Quality Improvement in Higher Education
Author: John R. DewPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Continuous improvement is so important for leaders in higher education today because they find it now being embedded in the re-accreditation process for many accrediting associations.
Balancing Quality Improvement and Cost Control in Independent Higher Education
Author: National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Quality
Author: Ellen Earle ChaffePublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A look at TQM and higher education.
Managing for Quality in Higher Education
Author: Enhancing Quality in an Era of Resource Constraints
Author: University of Michigan. Task Force on Costs in Higher EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Quality in Higher Education
Author: Brent D. RubenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351293540
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one. By one set of definitions or another, colleges and universities throughout the world have always held the pursuit of excellence as their primary goal. Why then has the quality approach, developed and popularized in industry, and how increasingly applied in health care and government, receiving so much attention in higher education at this moment? What does this perspective add to the approaches to excellence with which they have long embraced?These are the two primary questions that this book seeks to address. Chapters and contributors include: "The New Productivity" by Peter F. Drucker; "World War n and the Quality Movement" by J. M. Juran; "The Quality Approach to Higher Education: Context of Concepts for Change" by Brent Ruben; "The Big Questions in Higher Education Today" by L. Edwin Coate; "An American Approach to Quality" by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala; "Quality hi Higher Education: Critical Issues in Definition and Assessment" by Brent Ruben; and "Ten Areas for Future Research in Total Quality Management" by A. Blanton Godfrey. The volume is graced with an opening essay by Francis L. Lawrence, president of Rutgers University.Higher education is in the public spotlight today due to the many challenges it now faces: rising tuition costs; frustration about a tight job market for graduates; calls for increased faculty productivity; concerns about political correctness; and criticisms regarding the use of grant and research funds, among others. Quality in Higher Education is a particularly timely book that will greatly benefit educators, university administrators, students, and sociologists, and all those who are interested in higher education today.
Implementing Total Quality Management in Higher Education
Author: Robert CorneskyPublisher: Magna Large Print Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Concise approach to theories of TQM & tools needed to implement them in post secondary institutions.
Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education
Author: Robert Edward MartinPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781958308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is much more interesting, and more important, than its technical-sounding title might suggest. It combines rigorous economic analysis with thoughtful conclusions as to the public purposes and organisational priorities of higher education. Paul Temple, Institute of Education, UK The book provides an interesting blend of conceptual, theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects on costs of higher education that are key to understanding how higher education institutions operate. The author examines in detail the complexities involved in the application of principles of firms to academic institutions, such as pricing, cost functions, product functions, quality, product differentiation, subsidies, competition, technology, risk bearing, etc. The examination of how charity market works, the economic forces that explain the demand for and supply of endowment funds is quite insightful. By emphasizing the public good nature of higher education, the social purpose it serves, the principle of equality in higher education, the principle of social contract, erosion of public trust, etc., while addressing a broad set of standard issues in economics of higher education relating to costs and quality of higher education, the book indeed forms a special reading on the subject. Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that expects higher education to address problems that are well beyond its core competencies. In this timely volume, Robert E. Martin presents a thorough treatment of the social contract between those who fund higher education and those who benefit from it. In-depth discussions include: the institution s role as steward of the higher education social contract the role of transaction costs, risk bearing, production technology, and asset ownership in determining the internal structure of the institution the market for academic charities price, quality, and advertising competition in higher education. Formal models of production and cost, optimal fundraising, the maximization of academic reputation, agency behavior, and the student's enrollment decision are also presented and analyzed. Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education will be of great interest to higher education researchers and administrators, economists, and public policymakers.