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  • The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership

    Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards

    de Cathy A. Trower ...
    THE PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIPThe Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership offers a resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by putting into practice the groundbreaking model that was introduced in the book, Governance as Leadership. This proven model of effective governance explores how to attain proficiency in three ... Leer más

    $67.00 USD

  • Where Tenure Does Not Reign

    Colleges with Contract Systems

    de Richard Chait, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Presents the experiences of campuses without tenure and campuses where faculty may choose tenure or contracts. Issues covered include academic freedom, faculty recruitment, selectivity, turnover, and reward structures. Answers the question, "What lessons can be learned from campuses with contract systems?" ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Practical Wisdom

    Thinking Differently About College and University Governance

    de Peter D. Eckel, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Co-published with This series of essays written for trustees and administrative leaders of universities and colleges draws on the authors’ extensive consulting experience, research into the dynamics of boards, and service as trustees, to focus on practical insights that will help readers improve governance. The authors have contributed a series of essays on governing well to Inside Higher ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Questions of Tenure

    de Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, James Honan, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Questions of Tenure

    de Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower, James Honan ...
    Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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    de Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Leer más

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  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    de Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

    History, Institutions, Values

    Edición de Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz ...
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    de Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • A Perfect Mess

    The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

    de David F. Labaree ...
    A history of higher education in America and an investigation into the secrets of its success: " A Perfect Mess should become a classic." — Times Higher EducationRead about America's colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

    The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

    de Peter Levine ...
    Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of ... Leer más

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  • The Enigma of Diversity

    The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice

    de Ellen Berrey ...
    Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era—but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it?Ellen Berrey digs deep into those questions in The Enigma of Diversity. Drawing on six ... Leer más

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