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Chile’S Sea Change In Higher Education, Marion Lloyd
Chile’S Sea Change In Higher Education, Marion Lloyd
Marion Lloyd
Michelle Bachelet, who won Chile’s presidency in a landslide on Sunday, has vowed to overhaul her country’s economic model to deal with endemic inequality. And she plans to start by providing free higher education for all.
Conclusion: Looking To The Future, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Conclusion: Looking To The Future, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
[Excerpt] A number of important themes emerge from the chapters in Governing Academia. First, decentralization gives individual units—be they university campuses within a state system, colleges within a university, or departments within a college—an incentive to act in their own best interests, but less of an incentive to work toward the common good. As Heller points out, at the level of a state system, decentralization of control may lead to wasteful overlap between campuses. As Wilson shows, decentralized budgeting in the form of responsibility center management models may cause units not to maximize the quality of the education they are …