Learning Resources

Abstract: The author reflects on changes in legal standards and political support for affirmative action, and urges reconsideration of campus affirmative action policies and programs. Reviews recent federal court decisions, tracks how public opinion and demographics have shifted in the last thirty years, and proposes that campus affirmative action programs should address one of three goals: remedying past discrimination, expanding diversity, or promoting social justice.

Abstract: Book review: Managing Today's University: Strategies for Viability, Change, and Excellence (second edition), by frederick Balderston. Joseey-Bass, 1995. 379 pages. ISBN 0-7879-0072-9

Abstract: Book review: The Challenge and Promise of a Catholic University, edited by Theodore hesburgh. University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. 381 pages. ISBN 0-268-00803-5.

Abstract: Book Review: Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Batlle for america's Future, by Ricahrd Berstein. Knopf, 1994. 343 pages. ISBN 0-679-41156-9.

Abstract: Examines the rapid expansion of U.S. branch campuses in Japan in the 1980s and early 1990s, of which nearly two-thirds have now closed. Based on an in-depth study of seven campuses and nearly 50 interviews, the author identifies common problems and makes recommendations for establishing branch campuses overseas.

Abstract: The financial and social context within which colleges and universities operate has changed, but how institutions function generally has not. Contends that shared governance must be reevaluated and streamlined, while preserving its underlying values. Also advocates that institutional leadership address not only campus issues but broad social policies. Promotes changes in three areas: presidential selection criteria, attitudes towards academic management, and faculty governance and reward systems.

Abstract: A primer for planners about higher education's "cost disease" and its future effects. Subtitles: Why the cost disease?; Can we afford higher education?; Reallocating national resources; The huge job of persuasion. Pull quotes: "The cost of American higher education has quadrupled over the 42-year period." "In higher education the nature of the products make their production a handicraft activity." "Personal services are condemned to slower productivity growth." "By 2040 education and health care alone could well absorb over half of the entire GNP." "Higher education is an example of the need for reconceived practices."

Abstract: Book review: Visions of the Future, by robert Heilbroner. Oxford university Press, 1995. 128 pages. ISBN 0-19-509074-8

Abstract: Book Review: Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the U.S. Air force Academy, edited by robert Bruegmann. University of Chicago press, 1995. 200 pages. ISBN 02326-07693-8

Abstract: Book review: Strategic Marketing for Educational Institutions, by Philip Kotler and Karen F. A. Fox. Second edition. Prentice-Hall, 1995. 474 pages. ISBN 0-13-668989-2.