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Author Weingartner, Rudolph H. (Rudolph Herbert)

Title Fitting form to function : a primer on the organization of academic institutions / Rudolph H. Weingartner
Edition Second edition
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2011]
©2011

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 W'PONDS  378.1010973 Wei/Fft 2011  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 148 pages ; 23 cm
Series The ACE series on higher education
American Council on Education series on higher education (2009)
Contents Contents note continued: Reorganizing Departments and Creating New Ones -- Alternatives to Departmental Organization -- ch. Nine Faculty Collaboration: Personnel and Educational Policy Decisions and Juridical Functions -- Personnel Decisions: Instrumental Goals and the Requirements of Justice -- Appointing Faculty Members -- Conferring Tenure -- Formulating Educational Policy -- Juridical Functions: Some Institutional Conditions -- Juridical Functions: The Process -- ch. Ten Postscript on Change
Contents note continued: The Organization of the Office: The Administration of the Faculty -- Ministering to Students -- The Organization of Support and Extra-Academic Activities -- ch. Five The Office of the Provost, the Chief Academic Officer -- The Realm of the Provost: An Overview -- The Functions of the Provost -- The Role of the Provost: Scylla and Charybdis -- The Way in Which Provostial Administration Is Abstract -- The Provost's Staff -- Where the Realm Is Too Large -- ch. Six At the Edge of the Provost's Realm -- Student Affairs -- Graduate Education and Research -- Some Para-Academic Units -- The Health Sciences: Outside the Realm? -- ch. Seven The Community College -- Administering the Community College -- ch. Eight Departmental Organization -- The Department, the Good Department, and Some Obstacles to Achieving It -- The Need for Communication and the Selection of a Chairperson -- When Things Go Wrong -- Departments and Multidisciplinary Programs --
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Preliminaries -- The Special Nature of Academic Institutions -- The Administration and Making Decisions -- ch. Two The President and the President's Office -- The Functions of a President -- The Nature of Supervision and the Apex of the Administrative Hierarchy -- Instrumental Administrators Reporting to the President -- Director of Athletics -- Director of Development -- General Counsel -- Supervision on a Decentralized Campus -- The Doability of the President's Job and the Use of Staff -- ch. Three Collaboration and Consultation: The Central Administration and the Faculty -- The Need for a Senate -- Conditions for a Senate's Effective Functioning -- Consultation -- Institutional Size -- The Organization of Budgeting and Planning -- Some Principles of Committee Formation -- ch. Four Primary Academic Administration: The Office of the Dean of a School -- The Functions of the Office of the Dean of a School --
Notes "Published in partnership with the American Council on Education"--t.p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education, Higher -- United States -- Decision making.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration.
Author American Council on Education.
LC no. 2011006011
ISBN 9781442211988 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442212008 (electronic)