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The Academic Workplace (Fall/Winter 1991): Windmills & General Education Reform, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston, Zelda F. Gamson, Sandra Kanter
The Academic Workplace (Fall/Winter 1991): Windmills & General Education Reform, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston, Zelda F. Gamson, Sandra Kanter
The Academic Workplace
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Case Study #1 - Weservall University, Sandra Kanter
Case Study #1 - Weservall University, Sandra Kanter
New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications
In the collegial environment of a mid-sized urban University, faculty and administrators struggle with devising appropriate strategies for developing a set of general education requirements that can meet the multiple needs of a campus with a history of decentralized decision making. While some colleges vie with each other for increased enrollments, other units see general education as an opportunity to reinforce discipline specific goals; in addition, the perception of professional schools influences the ways in which the discussions and decisionmaking process are shaped.
Case Study #3 - Mystic College, Sandra Kanter
Case Study #3 - Mystic College, Sandra Kanter
New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications
In an effort to develop a more effective niche in a highly competitive higher education market, a tradition bound mid-sized private college known for its professional schools decides to overhaul its general education requirements. After formulating a bold curricular proposal, the institution is buffeted by the various demands and needs of campus politics and the inevitable challenges to tradition that such innovations bring. The proposal is subject to the contrary interpretations of policy and institutional history by board, faculty, and administration.
Case Study #2 - Littleton State University, Sandra Kanter
Case Study #2 - Littleton State University, Sandra Kanter
New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications
A small public liberal arts institution receives word that its accreditation is in jeopardy. Though Littleton State is proud of its strong academic and professional majors and its recent institutional efforts to attack a new market of students, it must now decide the best way to examine its general education requirements or risk losing its accreditation. The case study outlines the process which the college follows in its efforts to maintain accreditation while still preserving its traditions and commitment to academic excellence. The case exemplifies the importance of examining possible internal risks as an institution responds to external pressures to …
Searching For A Umass President: Transitions And Leaderships, 1970-1991, Richard A. Hogarty
Searching For A Umass President: Transitions And Leaderships, 1970-1991, Richard A. Hogarty
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article traces the history of the five presidential successions that have taken place at the University of Massachusetts since 1970. No manual or campus report will reveal the one best way to conduct a presidential search. How to do so is not easy to prescribe. Suitably fleshed out, the events surrounding these five searches tell us a great deal about what works and what doesn't. It is one thing to offer case illustrations of past events, another to say how they might be put to use by other people in another era with quite different situations and concerns. In …
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1991): Stalking The People's Schools: The Roots And Harvest Of The Comprehensive Sector, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston, Zelda F. Gamson, Dorothy E. Finnegan, Craig E. Daniels, Janet D. Daniels
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1991): Stalking The People's Schools: The Roots And Harvest Of The Comprehensive Sector, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston, Zelda F. Gamson, Dorothy E. Finnegan, Craig E. Daniels, Janet D. Daniels
The Academic Workplace
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of The State Constitutional Convention Of 1917 On State Aid To Higher Education In Massachusetts, John P. Whittaker
The Impact Of The State Constitutional Convention Of 1917 On State Aid To Higher Education In Massachusetts, John P. Whittaker
New England Journal of Public Policy
The Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention of 1917 marked a turning point in the development of higher education in the state. An amendment adopted at the convention put an end to a long tradition of direct state appropriations to support the development of private colleges and to proposals for cooperative efforts between various state agencies and private institutions. After that time, only state institutions would receive state support. This decision resulted from an attempt to resolve an intense debate over the use of public funding for sectarian and other private institutions, which reflected the intense religious and class conflict inherent in …