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Saving alma mater [electronic resource] : a rescue plan for America's public universities / James C. Garland.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: xix, 268 pISBN:
  • 9780226283869 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226283860 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LB2342 .G37 2009eb
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Contents:
Where the money comes from -- Market forces in higher education -- Why public universities cannot restrain costs -- The university prime directive -- The faculty are the university -- The cargo cult college -- The blessing and curse of shared governance -- What price shared governance? -- The shape of things to come -- Leadership begins with the trustees -- The role of governing boards in the new era -- Recruiting presidential leadership -- Reforming the academic culture -- A proposal for deregulation of public universities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where the money comes from -- Market forces in higher education -- Why public universities cannot restrain costs -- The university prime directive -- The faculty are the university -- The cargo cult college -- The blessing and curse of shared governance -- What price shared governance? -- The shape of things to come -- Leadership begins with the trustees -- The role of governing boards in the new era -- Recruiting presidential leadership -- Reforming the academic culture -- A proposal for deregulation of public universities.

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