- 224 pages
- English
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Governance and the Public Good
About this book
Grapples with a variety of policy issues in order to provoke a discussion of the state of higher education in the 21st century.
The public good is not merely an economic idea of goods and services, but a place where thoughtful debate and examination of the polis can occur. In differentiating the university from corporations and other private sector businesses, Governance and the Public Good provides a framework for discussing the trend toward politicized and privatized postsecondary institutions while acknowledging the parallel demands of accountability and autonomy placed on sites of higher learning.
If one accepts the notion of higher education as a public good, does this affect how one thinks about the governance of America's colleges and universities? Contributors to this book explore the role of the contemporary university, its relationship to the public good beyond a simple obligation to educate for jobs, and the subsequent impact on how institutions of higher education are and should be governed.
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Table of contents
- Governance and the Public Good
- Contents
- Introduction- The Examined University: Process and Change in Higher Education
- 1. Reconsidering Higher Education and the Public Good: The Role of Public Spheres
- 2. Lost In Transition: Governing in a Time of Privatization
- 3. Rethinking State Governance of Higher Education
- 4. Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Politically Savvy:The Art of Governance
- 5. The “New” New Challenge of Governance by Governing Boards
- 6. Renewing the Place of Academic Expertise and Authority in the Reform of University Governance
- 7. Institutional Autonomy and State-Level Accountability: Loosely Coupled Governance and the Public Good
- 8. Governance in a Time of Transition
- 9. Trust and Academic Governance: A Conceptual Framework
- 10.Defining Governance for Public Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
- Contributors
- Index