Title Pathways to reform : credits and conflict at the City University of New York / Alexandra W. Logue

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 Summary A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest university. Change 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 Analysis Academic degree Academic freedom Academic standards Academic tenure Academic term Academic year Accreditation Advanced Placement Adviser Alumnus American Association of University Professors Associate degree Associate professor Association of American Colleges and Universities Attendance Bachelor's degree Baruch College Borough of Manhattan Community College Brooklyn College Career Central administration Chancellor (education) City University of New York Clark Kerr Collective bargaining College of Staten Island Common Core State Standards Initiative Community college Core Curriculum (Columbia College) Course credit Curriculum Director of communications Doctor of Philosophy Education Credit Education policy Education reform Education Employment Faculty (academic staff) First language Freshman General counsel Governance Grading (education) Graduation Guideline Guttman Community College Higher education Hunter College Implementation Inside Higher Ed Institution Institutional research JSTOR John Jay College of Criminal Justice KC Johnson Kingsborough Community College Learning Lehman College Letter to the editor Liberal arts education Matthew Goldstein Middle States Commission on Higher Education New York State Education Department Of Education Pell Grant Percentage Plaintiff President of Harvard University Princeton University Press Professional school Professional studies Professor Professors in the United States Public university Queensborough Community College Requirement Scholarship Science education Secondary education State University of New York State school Student affairs Student Students' union Supervisor Technology The Chronicle of Higher Education The New York Times Transfer credit Tuition payments Undergraduate education University System of Georgia University of California University of Chicago University system University Voting Writing Year Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject City University of New York -- Curricula SUBJECT City University of New York fast Subject General education -- New York (State) -- New York Education, Higher -- New York (State) -- New York EDUCATION -- Higher. Education -- Curricula Education, Higher General education New York (State) -- New York Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400888337 1400888336

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