How Colleges Work

The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-55542-354-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

"One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other."
--Journal of Higher Education

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birnbaum, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Understanding Colleges and Universities as Organizations.

Models of Organizational Functioning.

Integrating the Models.

Über Autor(innen)

ROBERT BIRNBAUM is professor of higher education at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches and writes about higher academic leadership and organization. He was previously vice chancellor of the City University of New York, vice chancellor of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is also author, coauthor, and editor of numerous articles and books, including How Academic Leadership Works and How Colleges Work.