Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 2242
Book Description
The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
Author: Who's who in American Education
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Art and Politics of Academic Governance
Author: Kenneth P. MortimerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1607096595
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces. Mortimer and Sathre have gone beyond a discussion of faculty/administrative behavior by focusing on what happens when the legitimate governance claims of faculty, trustees, and presidents clash. They place these relationships in the broader context of internal institutional governance and analyze the dynamics that unfold when advocacy trumps collegiality. The book closes with a defense of shared governance and offers observations and practical suggestions about how the academy can share authority effectively and further achieve its mission.
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309125391
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Who's who of Women Executives, 1989-1990
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940863187
Category : Executives
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
History of the Federal Parole System
Author: Peter B. HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parole
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
The Invisible Tapestry
Author: George D. KuhPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The properties of institutional culture are identified, and the way cultural perspectives have been used to describe life in colleges and universities are examined. Seven sections cover the following: cultural perspectives (the warrant for the report, organizational rationality, the remaining sections); culture defined and described (toward a definition of culture, properties of culture, levels of culture); intellectual foundations of culture (anthropology, sociology); a framework for analyzing culture in higher education (the external environment, the institution, subcultures, individual actors); threads of institutional culture (historical roots and external influences, academic program, the personnel core, social environment, artifacts, distinctive themes, individual actors); institutional subcultures (faculty subculture, student culture, administrative subcultures); and implications of cultural perspectives (a summary of cultural properties, implications for practice, inquiry into culture in higher education). Techniques of inquiry appropriate for studying culture include observing participants, interviewing key informants, conducting autobiographical interviews, and analyzing documents. By viewing higher education institutions as cultural enterprises, it may be possible to learn how the college experience contributes to divisions of class, race, gender, and age within the institution as well as throughout society, how a college or university relates to its prospective, current, or former students, and how to deal more effectively with conflicts between competing interest groups. Contains over 340 references. (SM)
Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs
Author: Junior Colleges: 50 States/50 Years
Author: Roger YarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Junior colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The American Community College
Author: Arthur M. CohenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875895116
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This book is about American community colleges, during the period from 1965-1980, and presents a comprehensive study useful for everyone concerned with higher education. It includes data summaries on students, faculty, curriculum, and many other quantifiable dimensions of the institutions. The data, descriptions, and analyses can be used by administrators--to learn about practices that have proved effective; curriculum planners--who anticipated program revision; faculty members--seeking ideas to modify their classes; and trustees and policy makers--for interesting financial and administrative guidelines.