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Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser
Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser
Autore Smelser Neil J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (150 p.)
Disciplina 378.73
Collana The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society
Soggetto topico Universities and colleges - United States
Universities and colleges - Administration - United States
Educational change - United States
Soggetto non controllato academic administration
academic community
academic department
academic disciplines
academic freedom
academic stratification
academic
accountability
clark kerr
complex structures
contemporary trends
education history
education policy
education reform
education
engaging
higher ed leadership
higher education
history
part time faculty
political constituencies
public support
structural accretion
teachers and faculty
theory of change
universities
ISBN 0-520-95525-0
Classificazione HIS036000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Dynamics of American Universities -- Apologia -- What Kind of Creature is Higher Education? -- Functions -- The Problematic Status of "Functions" -- Moral Embeddedness -- Structural Changes Accompanying Growth -- Increasing the Size of Units -- Segmentation of Units -- Differentiation -- Proliferation -- Coordination -- A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion -- A Historical Sketch of the Process -- The Discipline-based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So -- Frail -- The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments -- Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion -- Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern -- Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion -- The Structuring of Faculty Activities -- Implications for Academic Community -- Chapter 2: The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability -- Of Pythons and Goats -- Economic Fluctuations -- Competitors for Resources -- Relevance to Accretion -- Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies -- Internal Constituencies -- External Constituencies -- Accretion, Revenues, and Costs -- Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics -- Management as Science and Art -- Administration as Threat to Academic Culture -- Administration as Parkinsonian -- The Structural Alternative -- Implications for Shared Governance -- Accretion and Academic Stratification -- Institutional Prestige -- Multicampus Systems and Stratification -- Prestige Among Disciplines -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions -- An Unprecedented Perfect Storm -- Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance -- General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs -- Accountability, Governance, and Support. -- The Many Faces of Commercialization -- The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its -- Consequences -- Consumerism -- Economizing as a Way of Life -- University-Industry Relations -- On-line Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-profits -- Non-tenured and Part-time Faculty -- Implications for Tenure -- Excursus on Academic Freedom -- Coda -- References.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910786270103321
Smelser Neil J  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
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Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser
Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser
Autore Smelser Neil J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (150 p.)
Disciplina 378.73
Collana The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society
Soggetto topico Universities and colleges - United States
Universities and colleges - Administration - United States
Educational change - United States
Soggetto non controllato academic administration
academic community
academic department
academic disciplines
academic freedom
academic stratification
academic
accountability
clark kerr
complex structures
contemporary trends
education history
education policy
education reform
education
engaging
higher ed leadership
higher education
history
part time faculty
political constituencies
public support
structural accretion
teachers and faculty
theory of change
universities
ISBN 0-520-95525-0
Classificazione HIS036000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Dynamics of American Universities -- Apologia -- What Kind of Creature is Higher Education? -- Functions -- The Problematic Status of "Functions" -- Moral Embeddedness -- Structural Changes Accompanying Growth -- Increasing the Size of Units -- Segmentation of Units -- Differentiation -- Proliferation -- Coordination -- A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion -- A Historical Sketch of the Process -- The Discipline-based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So -- Frail -- The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments -- Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion -- Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern -- Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion -- The Structuring of Faculty Activities -- Implications for Academic Community -- Chapter 2: The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability -- Of Pythons and Goats -- Economic Fluctuations -- Competitors for Resources -- Relevance to Accretion -- Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies -- Internal Constituencies -- External Constituencies -- Accretion, Revenues, and Costs -- Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics -- Management as Science and Art -- Administration as Threat to Academic Culture -- Administration as Parkinsonian -- The Structural Alternative -- Implications for Shared Governance -- Accretion and Academic Stratification -- Institutional Prestige -- Multicampus Systems and Stratification -- Prestige Among Disciplines -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions -- An Unprecedented Perfect Storm -- Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance -- General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs -- Accountability, Governance, and Support. -- The Many Faces of Commercialization -- The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its -- Consequences -- Consumerism -- Economizing as a Way of Life -- University-Industry Relations -- On-line Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-profits -- Non-tenured and Part-time Faculty -- Implications for Tenure -- Excursus on Academic Freedom -- Coda -- References.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821124503321
Smelser Neil J  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
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Empire of scholars : universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850-1939 / / Tamson Pietsch
Empire of scholars : universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850-1939 / / Tamson Pietsch
Autore Pietsch Tamson <1978->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina 370
Collana Studies in imperialism
Soggetto topico Education, Higher - Great Britain - Colonies - History
Universities and colleges - Great Britain - Colonies - History
Universities and colleges - Great Britain - History
Education, Higher - Great Britain - History
Soggetto non controllato Australia
Britain
Canada
Networks
New Zealand
Practice
Sociability
South Africa
Space
empire
globalisation
knowledge
universities
ISBN 1-78499-176-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Contents; General editor's introduction; Preface and acknowledgements; Note on terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Foundations: 1802-80; 1 Building institutions:localising 'universal' learning; Part II Connections: 1880-1914; 2 Forging links abroad:books, travelling scholarships, leave of absence; 3 Making appointments:access, exclusion and personalised trust; 4 Institutional association: mutual recognition and imperial organisation; Part III Networks: 1900-39; 5 Academic traffic:people, objects, information, ideas; 6 The Great War: mobilising colonial knowledge and connections
7 After the peace:the Universities' Bureau and the expansive nationPart IV Erosions, 1919-60s; 8 Alternative ties:national and international forces; Conclusion; Appendix A Foundation dates of universities and colleges established in Britain and the Empire before the Second World War; Appendix B Timeline of institutions granted 'affiliated'status at the University of Oxford; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910797611503321
Pietsch Tamson <1978->  
Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
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Empire of scholars : universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850-1939 / / Tamson Pietsch
Empire of scholars : universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850-1939 / / Tamson Pietsch
Autore Pietsch Tamson <1978->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina 370
Collana Studies in imperialism
Soggetto topico Education, Higher - Great Britain - Colonies - History
Universities and colleges - Great Britain - Colonies - History
Universities and colleges - Great Britain - History
Education, Higher - Great Britain - History
Soggetto non controllato Australia
Britain
Canada
Networks
New Zealand
Practice
Sociability
South Africa
Space
empire
globalisation
knowledge
universities
ISBN 1-78499-176-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Contents; General editor's introduction; Preface and acknowledgements; Note on terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Foundations: 1802-80; 1 Building institutions:localising 'universal' learning; Part II Connections: 1880-1914; 2 Forging links abroad:books, travelling scholarships, leave of absence; 3 Making appointments:access, exclusion and personalised trust; 4 Institutional association: mutual recognition and imperial organisation; Part III Networks: 1900-39; 5 Academic traffic:people, objects, information, ideas; 6 The Great War: mobilising colonial knowledge and connections
7 After the peace:the Universities' Bureau and the expansive nationPart IV Erosions, 1919-60s; 8 Alternative ties:national and international forces; Conclusion; Appendix A Foundation dates of universities and colleges established in Britain and the Empire before the Second World War; Appendix B Timeline of institutions granted 'affiliated'status at the University of Oxford; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910822633803321
Pietsch Tamson <1978->  
Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
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Environmental Energy Sustainability at Universities
Environmental Energy Sustainability at Universities
Autore Montoya Francisco G
Pubbl/distr/stampa Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 electronic resource (220 p.)
Soggetto topico History of engineering & technology
Soggetto non controllato bibliometrics
community detection
energy
law
sustainability
smart contracts
building information modeling (BIM)
legal aspects
bibliometric
clustering
renewable energy
wind turbine
pitch control
electric generation
universities
university environmental impact
urban planning
sustainability assessment
covenant of Mayors
DC microgrid
energy management system
photovoltaic (PV) system
energy storage system
constant power load
power generation control
benchmark
campus energy consumption
heating and cooling degree-days
energy model
occupancy rate
loquat seed
biomass boiler
greenhouse gases
UNAM
energy saving
Mexico
photovoltaic system (PVS)
zapote seed
energy consumption
higher education institution
energy efficiency indicators
green campus
social responsibility
Spain
zero-energy buildings
energy efficiency
bioclimatic architecture
sustainable transport
photovoltaic
energy saving in laboratories
energy saving in data processing centres
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910557525803321
Montoya Francisco G  
Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
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Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities / / edited by Naomi Krogman, Apryl Bergstrom
Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities / / edited by Naomi Krogman, Apryl Bergstrom
Pubbl/distr/stampa Edmonton, Alberta : , : University of Alberta Press, , 2023
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (272 pages)
Disciplina 363.70071
Soggetto topico Environmental education
Soggetto non controllato Canada
Policy
United States
advocacy
climate change
college
conservation
curriculum
ecology
environment
higher education
innovation
leadership
pedagogy
science
social justice
social science
sustainability
universities
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Foreword / Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Preface -- Introduction / Naomi Krogman -- 1 Charting the Landscape 1 -- An Overview of Sustainability Education in Canadian and US Higher Education / Apryl Bergstrom -- I Administrator Point of View -- 2 Sustainability Thinking: A View from the "Dark Side" / Roger Epp -- 3 Sustainability Scholarship and Education: Opportunities and Strategies for Success / Christopher G. Boone -- 4 How Trends in Public Higher Education Can Support Sustainability Education and Research / Robert H. Jones -- II Skill Sets or Research Capabilities Needed for Sustainability Education -- 5 Sustainability Education at US and Canadian Tribal Colleges: Its Goals and Implementations, and the Role of Mathematics / Robert E. Megginson -- 6 Innovation: Connecting Markets and Money / Vicky J. Sharpe -- 7 Sustainability and Decision / Thomas Dietz -- III Focusing Sustainability Education on Problem-Based Learning -- 8 Overcoming the Terrors of the Either/Or / Ann Dale -- 9 Sustainability Education: A Dance Between Knowledge and Experience / Shirley M. Malcom -- IV Cultivating Civic-Mindedness, Deliberative Dialogue, and Pathways toward the Public Good -- 10 Cultivating Courage in an Increasingly Complex, Divided World / Toddi A. Steelman -- 11 Education for Regeneration / Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins -- V Unique Perspectives from Professor and Student -- 12 Education for Sustainability: An Ecological Citizenship Approach in a Neoliberal Age / Allison F.W. Goebel -- 13 Sustainability Pedagogy: Keeping Up with Millennials and Generation Z / Kourosh Houshmand -- Conclusion / Naomi Krogman -- Contributors.
Record Nr. UNISA-996545362703316
Edmonton, Alberta : , : University of Alberta Press, , 2023
Materiale a stampa
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Geografi, kunnskap, vitenskap : Den regionale UH-sektorens framvekst og betydning
Geografi, kunnskap, vitenskap : Den regionale UH-sektorens framvekst og betydning
Autore Knudsen Jon P
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oslo, : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 electronic resource (323 p.)
Soggetto topico Education
History of education
Universities
Soggetto non controllato regions
universities
geografi
higher education
regional politics
regioner
UH-sektoren
høyere utdanning
nasjonal utvikling
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Geografi, kunnskap, vitenskap
Record Nr. UNINA-9910563154603321
Knudsen Jon P  
Oslo, : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), 2019
Materiale a stampa
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Higher Education Institutions and Sustainable Development : Implementing a Whole-Institution Approach
Higher Education Institutions and Sustainable Development : Implementing a Whole-Institution Approach
Autore Rieckmann Marco
Pubbl/distr/stampa Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 electronic resource (296 p.)
Soggetto topico Humanities
Education
Soggetto non controllato higher education institutions
implementation
organisational factors
sustainable development
interpretative structural modelling (ISM)
higher education institutions (HEIs)
cross-sector collaboration
multi-professional collaboration
transdisciplinary research
narrative analysis
sensemaking
whole institution approach
organizational networks
constant comparative analysis
athletic departments
higher education
sustainability
loose coupling
shared governance
United States
intellectual capital
performance
quality of life
sustainability assessment
environmental management performance
German-speaking countries
survey
whole-institution approach
competencies
knowledge
values
case study
discourse analysis
environment
Global South
Sustainable Development Goals
universities’ transformation
sustainability assessment tool
sustainability governance
systems theory
governance equalizer
politics
profession
organization
public
organizational culture
Germany
sustainability in science
transformative science
grammar of responsibility
ethics of knowledge
universities as echo chambers of society
catalytic science
universities
organizational change
higher education for sustainable development (HESD)
sustainability transitions
SD
alliances
university
transfer
practitioner–university partnership
societal impact
education for sustainable development
higher education development
sustainable university development
systemic development
inter-organizational networks
worldviews
societal transformation
systemic transformation
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Higher Education Institutions and Sustainable Development
Record Nr. UNINA-9910557727603321
Rieckmann Marco  
Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
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I never knew what time it was [[electronic resource] /] / David Antin
I never knew what time it was [[electronic resource] /] / David Antin
Autore Antin David
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (190 p.)
Disciplina 811/.54
Soggetto topico Performance art
Arts - California
Soggetto non controllato 1960s
20th century
analysis
art and literature
comedy
concept of time
contemporary poetry
experience of time
famous poets
freeform poetry
improvised poetry
literary criticism
literary critics
lived experiences
memory
modern poets
museums
new york
oral history
performance art
poetry centers
poetry collection
poets
southern california
talk poems
temporal states
thinking out loud
time
universities
verbal invention
verbal poems
ISBN 1-282-76313-X
9786612763137
0-520-93829-1
1-59875-531-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The theory and practice of postmodernism: a manifesto -- California: the nervous camel -- Café Europa -- Talking at Blérancourt -- The noise of time -- I never knew what time it was -- Time on my hands -- How wide is the frame -- What happened to Walter -- Endangered nouns.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783314103321
Antin David  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
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I never knew what time it was [[electronic resource] /] / David Antin
I never knew what time it was [[electronic resource] /] / David Antin
Autore Antin David
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (190 p.)
Disciplina 811/.54
Soggetto topico Performance art
Arts - California
Soggetto non controllato 1960s
20th century
analysis
art and literature
comedy
concept of time
contemporary poetry
experience of time
famous poets
freeform poetry
improvised poetry
literary criticism
literary critics
lived experiences
memory
modern poets
museums
new york
oral history
performance art
poetry centers
poetry collection
poets
southern california
talk poems
temporal states
thinking out loud
time
universities
verbal invention
verbal poems
ISBN 1-282-76313-X
9786612763137
0-520-93829-1
1-59875-531-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The theory and practice of postmodernism: a manifesto -- California: the nervous camel -- Café Europa -- Talking at Blérancourt -- The noise of time -- I never knew what time it was -- Time on my hands -- How wide is the frame -- What happened to Walter -- Endangered nouns.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821184503321
Antin David  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
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