Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education

by George Keller

Overview

A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them. -- Washington PostGeorge Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number of campuses have faced hard times creatively. -- Higher Education

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801830303
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1983
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

George Keller was an education consultant and one of America's leading scholars of higher education. He was chair of the graduate program in higher education studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Editorial Reviews

"George Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number of campuses have faced hard times creatively."

Higher Education

"In a poll of 117 college presidents across the nation who were asked what books helped them with their jobs... the book most frequently cited was Academic Strategy."

New York Times

"A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them."

Washington Post

"A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them."

Washington Post