Governing Academia : : Who is in Charge at the Modern University? / / ed. by Ronald G. Ehrenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,; Freedman, James O.,; Hammond, Thomas H.,; Heller, Donald E.,; Hermalin, Benjamin E.,; Kaplan, Gabriel E.,; Kezsbom, Adam T.,; Klaff, Daniel B .,; Lohmann, Susanne,; Nacowski, Matthew P.,; Olivas, Michael A.,; Pusser, Brian,; Turner, Sarah E.,; Wilson, John Douglas,
• HerausgeberIn: Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 34 tables, 9 charts/graphs

Public concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and his coauthors assert that understanding how academic institutions are governed prov...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Presidents, Trustees, and External Governance
• 1. Presidents and Trustees
• 2. Higher Education Boards of Trustees
• 3. State Oversight of Academia
• II. Internal Governance and Organization
• 4. Darwinian Medicine for the University
• 5. Herding Cats in University Hierarchies: Formal Structure and Policy Choice in American Research Universities
• 6. Tiebout Competition versus Political Competition on a University Campus
• III. Governance in Practice
• 7. How Academic Ships Actually Navigate
• 8. Collective Bargaining in American Higher Education
• IV. Challenges from Nonprofits and Nonlegal Legal Influences
• 9. Nonprofit and For-Profit Governance in Higher Education
• 10. The Rise of Nonlegal Legal Influences on Higher Education
• Conclusion: Looking to the Future
• Appendix: Statewide Postsecondary Governance Structures
• Notes
• References
• Contributors
• Index