1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453412003321

Autore

Pierce Susan R

Titolo

Governance Reconsidered [[electronic resource] ] : How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2014

ISBN

1-118-73862-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

378.1

378.101

Soggetti

Education, Higher -- Administration

Total quality management -- United States

Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter 1 Shared Governance: Its History and Its Challenges; The Pressures on Shared Governance; Differences in How Shared Governance Has Been Practiced; The History of Shared Governance; The Emergence of Academic Freedom and Research; The AAUP Becomes a Force in Matters of Governance; Differences over the Nature and Pace of Change; The Effect of Program Prioritization on Governance; The Creation of Alternative Structures to Skirt Issues of Governance

Impact of Conflicts over Governance on the PresidencyTraditional Versus Nontraditional Presidents; Pressures on Trustees, Presidents, and Faculty to Change; Chapter 2 The Impact of Financial Pressures on Governance; The Causes of Financial Pressures; The Impact of the 2008 Economic Downturn; The Consequences of Aggressive Borrowing; Declining State Support for Public Universities; The Impact of Constrained Resources on Salaries; Efforts to Control Tuition and Limit Growing Financial Aid; The Consequences of Increased Financial Aid and Less Tuition

Faculty and Students Want More Say in Financial DecisionsThe Dangers



of Business as Usual in Times of Budget Problems; The Dangers of Ongoing Structural Deficits; Wish List Budgets; A Successful, Proactive Approach to Financial Pressures; Chapter 3 The Impact on Governance of Contingent Faculty, Online Learning, and MOOCs; Reliance on Contingent Faculty Affects Governance; Reliance on Contingent Faculty Can Compromise Educational Quality; Faculty Tensions About the Role of Contingent Faculty; Complexities Associated with the Role of Contingent Faculty in Governance

AAUP Recommendations for Contingent FacultyArguments Against Voting Rights for Contingent Faculty; The Modern Language Association Recommendations for Contingent Faculty; Institutional Responses to Contingent Faculty Unions; Recommendation: Move Contingent Faculty to Ongoing, Full-Time Positions; Online Courses and MOOCs; The Impact of MOOCs on Governance; Faculty Concerns About MOOCS; Recommendation: Institutions Should Be Clear About Processes for MOOCs and Other Online Courses; For-Profit Universities; Chapter 4 The Impact on Governance of Questions About Higher Education's Value and Cost

Higher Education Is Vulnerable to CriticismGraduation Rates; State Legislatures Base Funding on IPEDS-Based Graduation Rates; Student Debt; Diminished Academic Standards; Claims That Colleges Are Failing to Educate Students; Academically Adrift; "We're Losing Our Minds"; Is College Worth It?; The Economic Value of College and Postgraduate Degrees; The Value of a College Degree Beyond Financial Benefits; Elected Officials Seek to Influence Higher Education; Gubernatorial Efforts to Influence the Curriculum; Gubernatorial Efforts to Influence Tuition Policies

Elected Officials Usurp Faculty Role and Award Credit for MOOCs

Sommario/riassunto

Revamp senior administration organization for more effective governance Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive takes an in-depth look at the current practice of governance in higher education and explores solutions for more effective functioning. Written by a former college president, the book provides an insider's perspective on the growing tensions around the traditional shared governance model and identifies the key challenges facing trustees, presidents, senior administrators, and faculty. Traditional sh



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910488694103321

Autore

Geller Pamela L.

Titolo

Theorizing bioarchaeology / / Pamela L. Geller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9783030707040

3-030-70704-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Human remains (Archaeology)

Human remains (Archaeology) - Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: What Is Theorizing? -- 1.1 Theory vs. Theorizing -- 1.2 The Biocultural Model -- 1.3 Darwin's Body -- 1.4 The Distracting Body -- 1.5 Querying the Body -- References -- Chapter 2: What Is Habitus? -- 2.1 Trend or Tradition? -- 2.2 Marcel Mauss -- 2.2.1 Uncle Émile -- 2.2.2 Body Techniques -- 2.2.3 Walking: An Example -- 2.3 Pierre Bourdieu and Practice -- 2.3.1 From Habitus to Hexis -- 2.3.2 The Hexis of Heels -- 2.4 A Bioarchaeology of Body Habits -- 2.4.1 Plasticity -- 2.4.2 Entheseal Changes -- 2.5 Moving Forward -- 2.5.1 A Warrior's Life in Late Medieval England -- 2.5.2 Gender Habitus in Medieval Ensay -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: What Is Normal? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Georges Canguilhem -- 3.2.1 "...an affinity of habitus" -- 3.2.2 In Practice, There Is Theory -- 3.3 The Normal and the Pathological -- 3.4 Paleopathology -- 3.4.1 The Osteological Paradox -- 3.4.2 The French Disease -- 3.4.3 Treponemal Diseases -- 3.5 Embodied Experience -- 3.5.1 The Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 3.5.2 The Bioarchaeology of Care -- 3.6 Heteronormativity -- 3.6.1 Compulsory Reproduction -- 3.6.2 Atlatl Elbow -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: What Is Intersectionality? -- 4.1 Introduction to the Intersections -- 4.2 The Concept Intersectionality -- 4.3 Materiality and Intersectionality -- 4.4



An Accidental Case Study -- 4.5 Cuba in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries -- 4.5.1 Enslavement to Emancipation -- 4.5.2 Racial Differences -- 4.6 Racism and Racial Equality -- 4.7 Postmortem Practices -- 4.7.1 Havana's Cemeteries -- 4.7.2 Disinterment and Relocation -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: What Is Necropolitics? -- 5.1 Black and Blue -- 5.2 The Importance of Neologisms -- 5.2.1 "...a crime without a name".

5.2.2 "Nazis. I hate these guys." -- 5.3 Biopower and Biopolitics -- 5.4 Making Die -- 5.4.1 The Agentive Corpse -- 5.4.2 Bioarchaeology's Contribution -- 5.5 Becoming-Object -- 5.5.1 Teaching Skulls -- 5.5.2 Textbook Specimens -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: What Is Bioethos? -- 6.1 Prelude -- 6.2 Bioarchaeology and Epistemology -- 6.3 Bioarchaeological Ethics -- 6.3.1 Cataloguing Concerns -- 6.3.2 Codes of Ethics -- 6.4 Bioethics -- 6.5 Bioethos -- 6.6 Ontology -- 6.6.1 Postmortem Interactions -- 6.6.2 Ontological Insecurity -- 6.6.3 The Case of Cannibalism -- 6.7 Ethico-onto-epistemology -- 6.8 Bioethos in Action -- 6.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Coda: What Is Future Tripping? -- Index.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910711797003321

Titolo

Consumer protection: gender-related price differences for goods and services : report to congressional requesters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 51 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Soggetti

Consumer protection - United States

Price discrimination - United States

Sex discrimination against women - United States

Consumer protection - Law and legislation - United States

Consumers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"August 2018."

"GAO-18-500."



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.