The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance

by William G. Tierney (Editor)

Overview

Making changes in management, marketing, and assessment can offer far-reaching and.practical solutions for achieving high performance in colleges and universities.

In The Responsive University, William G. Tierney brings together a distinguished group of practitioners and scholars to describe how colleges and universities might respond effectively to changing social, demographic, and political forces. In each chapter, the contributors diagnose a specific problem and show how solutions can be found by reorienting basic work structures and designing nimbler, more creative organizations. Their goal is to encourage systemic change throughout the academy, and they propose far-reaching changes in such areas as management, marketing, and assessment. The Responsive University provides practical, real-world solutions for achieving high performance in colleges and universities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801862601
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	11/08/1999
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William G. Tierney is University Professor, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis in the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. He is the editor of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance and Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction. On The Road To Recovery And Renewal: Reinventing Academe
Chapter 1. Listening to The People We Serve
Chapter 2. Tenure Is Dead. Long Live Tenure
Chapter 3. Forming New Social Partnerships
Chapter 4. The Implications Of The Changed Environment For Governance In Higher Education
Chapter 5. Achieving High Performance: The Policy Dimension
Conclusion. The Responsive University In The Twenty-First Century
Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

"Framing the right questions is always the hardest part of restructuring or of even thinking about restructuring higher education. The contributors to this book are some of the very few I would trust to reorganize my institution—and while I would fight them on many points, I would trust them to do it right in the end. This book is an easy read on a hard subject."

Barry Munitz

"Tierney's discovery of core crisis in the academy's systems and structures is thought-provoking and intriguing. This fascinating book offers extremely valuable prescriptions for higher education's survival in the twenty-first century."

From the Publisher

Tierney's discovery of core crisis in the academy's systems and structures is thought-provoking and intriguing. This fascinating book offers extremely valuable prescriptions for higher education's survival in the twenty-first century.
—Barry Munitz, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust and former Chancellor of the California State University System

Framing the right questions is always the hardest part of restructuring or of even thinking about restructuring higher education. The contributors to this book are some of the very few I would trust to reorganize my institution—and while I would fight them on many points, I would trust them to do it right in the end. This book is an easy read on a hard subject.
—Michael A. Oliva, William B. Bates Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance, University of Houston Law Center

Michael A. Oliva

"Framing the right questions is always the hardest part of restructuring or of even thinking about restructuring higher education. The contributors to this book are some of the very few I would trust to reorganize my institution—and while I would fight them on many points, I would trust them to do it right in the end. This book is an easy read on a hard subject."

Editorial Reviews

The book's forward-thinking recommendations should provide useful guideposts as readers assess the challenges and constraints facing their own universities.
—Elaine El-Khawas, Studies in Higher Education

This book may startle some people . . . Definitely food for thought.
—Virginia Quarterly Review

The deliberately challenging essays provide both compelling arguments and practical discussions of the implications of these arguments . . . Like Tierney's other works . . . this volume is well edited, well written, and challenging.
—Choice

This book is about getting out of the box. It is about rethinking fundamental assumptions of higher education. To survive and thrive in the next century, colleges and universities will have to be responsive in the eyes of those being served.
—Future Survey

Their critical, balanced guide to the for-profit sector presents a welcome antidote to the ill-informed hysteria that has greeted its arrival on both sides of the pond.
—Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education Supplement

Of interest to scholars and students in education and social sciences, this text would also revitalize the entire university community’s conversations on removing barriers for student access and outcomes. Recommended.
—Choice

From the Publisher

Their critical, balanced guide to the for-profit sector presents a welcome antidote to the ill-informed hysteria that has greeted its arrival on both sides of the pond.

Times Higher Education Supplement - Geoffrey Alderman

The deliberately challenging essays provide both compelling arguments and practical discussions of the implications of these arguments . . . Like Tierney's other works . . . this volume is well edited, well written, and challenging.

Choice

This book is about getting out of the box. It is about rethinking fundamental assumptions of higher education. To survive and thrive in the next century, colleges and universities will have to be responsive in the eyes of those being served.

Future Survey

This book may startle some people . . . Definitely food for thought.

Virginia Quarterly Review

The book's forward-thinking recommendations should provide useful guideposts as readers assess the challenges and constraints facing their own universities.

Studies in Higher Education - Elaine El-Khawas

Their critical, balanced guide to the for-profit sector presents a welcome antidote to the ill-informed hysteria that has greeted its arrival on both sides of the pond.

— Geoffrey Alderman

Times Higher Education Supplement

The book's forward-thinking recommendations should provide useful guideposts as readers assess the challenges and constraints facing their own universities.

— Elaine El-Khawas

Studies in Higher Education