The Life Cycle of a Department Chair

He, Schuh

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 126
• This monograph identifies, examines, and analyzes selected issues related to the career development of the department chair with a special focus on ho... Lees meer

Institutionalizing Community Engagement in Higher Education

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• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 147
• Leading scholars of engagement analyze data from the first wave of community-engaged institutions as classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Adv... Lees meer

The Stress of Change: Testing the Resilience of Institutions

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• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 151
• Colleges and universities have administrative and governance arrangements that can come to terms with change. These can come into play to interpret an... Lees meer

Technology Leadership

He, Maughan

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 115
• Decisions about investments in information system infrastructure are among the most important -- and costly -- decisions campus and system administrat... Lees meer

Faculty at the Margins

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 143
• This volume looks at faculty who are different from the traditional conception of the professor in academia by virtue of the conditions of their appoi... Lees meer

Exploring the Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate Learning

Ernst Benjamin

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 123
• The majority of undergraduate instructors hold contingent appointments, a term used here to include not only the non-tenure-track part-time faculty bu... Lees meer

"radical Academia"? Understanding the Climates for Campus Activists

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 167
• Take an in-depth look at campus activism in the 21st century with this issue of New Directions for Higher Education . Campuses have always experienced... Lees meer

Leadership Amid Controversy: Presidential Perspectives

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 128
• At one university, students select as their commencement speaker a man on death row for murdering a police officer. At another, the student newspaper ... Lees meer

Accreditation: Assuring and Enhancing Quality

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 145
• This volume offers insight into U.S. accreditation--its history, values, advantages, benefits, and challenges--and in so doing respond to recent criti... Lees meer

The Uses of Intercollegiate Athletics: Challenges and Opportunities

He

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 148
• As universities and colleges across type attempt to position themselves for greater prestige and increased resources, they are using intercollegiate a... Lees meer

The First Year and Beyond

He, Barefoot

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 144
• The transitions that happen before, after, and during the undergraduate college experience are the subject of this volume--transitions that are experi... Lees meer

Practical Approaches to Ethics for Colleges and Universities

He, Moore

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Higher Education | nr. 142
• Ethics can seem like a slippery topic to tackle for any institution. Yet ethics pervade every layer of higher education ? from strategic planning to c... Lees meer