Pathways to Reform : : Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York / / Alexandra W. Logue.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Logue, Alexandra W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The William G. Bowen Series ; 106
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 line illus.

A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest universityChange is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controversial reform initiative known as Pathways. The program aimed to facilitate the transfer of credits among the university’s nineteen constituent colleges in order to improve graduation rates—a long-recognized problem for public universities such as CUNY. Hotly debated, Pathways met with vociferous resistance from many faculty members, drew the attention of local and national media, and resulted in lengthy legal action. In Pathways to Reform, Logue, the figure at the center of the maelstrom, blends vivid personal narrative with an objective perspective to tell how this hard-fought plan was successfully implemented at the third-largest university in the United States.Logue vividly illustrates why change does or does not take place in higher education, and the professional and personal tolls exacted. Looking through the lens of the Pathways program and factoring in key players, she analyzes how governance structures and conflicting interests, along with other institutional factors, impede change—which, Logue shows, is all too rare, slow, and costly. In this environment, she argues, it is shared governance, combined with a strong, central decision-making authority, that best facilitates necessary reform. Logue presents a compelling investigation of not only transfer policy but also power dynamics and university leadership.Shedding light on the inner workings of one of the most important public institutions in the nation, Pathways to Reform provides the first full account of how, despite opposition, a complex higher education initiative was realized.All net royalties received by the author from sales of this book will be donated to The City University of New York to support undergraduate student financial aid.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Publisher’s Note -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Starting the Journey -- Chapter 1. Passing the Pathways Resolution: June 27, 2011 -- Chapter 2. Antecedents: 1961 to Summer 2010 -- Chapter 3. Formulating the Resolution: October 2010 through January 2011 -- Chapter 4. The True Colors of Spring 2011: Shaping the Final Resolution -- Chapter 5. Models of Governance in June 2011: Rwanda, a CAPPR Meeting, and a Public Hearing -- Chapter 6. A Core Foundation: July 2011 through December 2011 -- Chapter 7. The Devil Is in the Details: January 2012 through August 2012 -- Chapter 8. English Studies: September 2012 through December 2012 -- Chapter 9. Sprinting and Stretching for the Finish Line: January 2013 through June 2013 -- Chapter 10. Transitions: July 2013 through December 2013 -- Chapter 11. Legal Matters: June 2011 through June 2015 -- Chapter 12. What Does It All Mean? Changing Course with Pathways -- Epilogue: Reaching the End of the Path -- Notes -- Names Index -- Subject Index