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
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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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
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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Social entrepreneurship : from issue to viable plan / / Terri D. Barreiro and Melissa M. Stone |
Autore | Barreiro Terri D. |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.408 |
Collana | Entrepreneurship and small business management collection |
Soggetto topico | Social entrepreneurship |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
social entrepreneurship
feasibility analysis entrepreneur social entrepreneur theory of change logic model public policy analysis nonprofit |
ISBN | 1-60649-517-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Issues, ideas, and opportunities, a simultaneous pursuit -- 3. Understanding those to be served and their communities -- 4. The policy environment, opportunities and constraints -- 5. Analyzing competitive forces, the market and the industry -- 6. Creating a social venture feasibility plan -- 7. Completing a viability assessment of the venture -- Appendix I. Denise DeVaan: from teacher to national advocate reducing poverty -- Appendix II. Frey Foundation (Minnesota): a story of a journey from charity to systems change engagement -- Appendix III. Mike Temali: expert in neighborhood and economic transformation -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452463003321 |
Barreiro Terri D.
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2013 | ||
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Social entrepreneurship : from issue to viable plan / / Terri D. Barreiro and Melissa M. Stone |
Autore | Barreiro Terri D. |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.408 |
Collana | Entrepreneurship and small business management collection |
Soggetto topico | Social entrepreneurship |
Soggetto non controllato |
social entrepreneurship
feasibility analysis entrepreneur social entrepreneur theory of change logic model public policy analysis nonprofit |
ISBN | 1-60649-517-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Issues, ideas, and opportunities, a simultaneous pursuit -- 3. Understanding those to be served and their communities -- 4. The policy environment, opportunities and constraints -- 5. Analyzing competitive forces, the market and the industry -- 6. Creating a social venture feasibility plan -- 7. Completing a viability assessment of the venture -- Appendix I. Denise DeVaan: from teacher to national advocate reducing poverty -- Appendix II. Frey Foundation (Minnesota): a story of a journey from charity to systems change engagement -- Appendix III. Mike Temali: expert in neighborhood and economic transformation -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790429403321 |
Barreiro Terri D.
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Social entrepreneurship : from issue to viable plan / / Terri D. Barreiro and Melissa M. Stone |
Autore | Barreiro Terri D. |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.408 |
Collana | Entrepreneurship and small business management collection |
Soggetto topico | Social entrepreneurship |
Soggetto non controllato |
social entrepreneurship
feasibility analysis entrepreneur social entrepreneur theory of change logic model public policy analysis nonprofit |
ISBN | 1-60649-517-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Issues, ideas, and opportunities, a simultaneous pursuit -- 3. Understanding those to be served and their communities -- 4. The policy environment, opportunities and constraints -- 5. Analyzing competitive forces, the market and the industry -- 6. Creating a social venture feasibility plan -- 7. Completing a viability assessment of the venture -- Appendix I. Denise DeVaan: from teacher to national advocate reducing poverty -- Appendix II. Frey Foundation (Minnesota): a story of a journey from charity to systems change engagement -- Appendix III. Mike Temali: expert in neighborhood and economic transformation -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821665703321 |
Barreiro Terri D.
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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