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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828683203321

Autore

Massy William F.

Titolo

Reengineering the university : how to be mission centered, market smart, and margin conscious / / William F. Massy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4214-1900-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/060973

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - United States - Business management

Education, Higher - United States - Finance

Education, Higher - United States - Costs

Educational change - United States - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface              ; 1. Understanding the Traditional University; Problems and Opportunities                                 ; Assets Worthy of Preservation                                    ; Why Traditional Universities Do What They Do                                                   ; Implications for Tuition and Cost Containment                                                    ; Business Models and Value Propositions                                             ; 2. The Reengineering Challenge; Flaws in the Academic Business Model

Building a Reengineering Portfolio                                         Implementation Considerations                                    ; Responsibilities for Reengineering                                         ; 3. The New Scholarship of Teaching; Conceptual Underpinnings                               ; Illustrative Applications                                ; Two "Outside the Box" Proposals                                      ; Organizing  for Improvement                                  ; 4. The Cost of Teaching; Alternative Approaches

Design of Teaching Systems                                 Modeling from University Transactional Data                                                  ; Extending the Model across the Campus                                            ; Areas of Application                           ; 5. Financial Planning and Budgeting; Envisioning University Information; Coherent Financial



Planning                                  ; Coherent Resource Allocation                                   ; A Model for Balancing Mission and Margin

Conclusion                 Appendixes                 ; A. Teaching and Learning Principles                                          ; B. Course-Based ABC; C. Computer-Aided Course Design; D. Incremental Cost of Enrollment                                        ; E. Smart What-Ifs in the Course-Based ABC Model; F. Margin Equivalents for Start-Up Programs; G. Extensions to the Mission-Margin Model; Notes            ; Bibliography                   ; Index            ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z