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Author Logue, A. W. (Alexandra W.), author.

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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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
City University of New York
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