Learning Resources

Abstract: Higher education institutions are urged to adopt mangement innovations but little is empirically know about the degree to which they do so. This study intergrates and triangulates several data sources in a an attempt to identify to identify the extent to which one mangement innovation, Total Quality Management/ Continuous Quality Improvement (TQM/CQI) actuallya has been adopted in the administrative practices of colleges and universities. We also assess adoption rate among institutions of different types, and propse several reasons for the differences discovered by this study. The data indicate that TQM/CQI has not been adopted to the extent claimed by some of its supporters, and suggested that claims of adoption of future innovations should be viewed skeptically rather than accepted uncritically.

Abstract: Book review of "The Vitality of Senior Faculty Members: Snow on the Roof--Fire in the Furnace," by Carole J. Bland and William H. Bergquist. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, volume 25, number 7. 1997. 169 pages. ISBN 1-878380-79-6 paperback.

Abstract: Describes the University of Washington’s attempt to support students and faculty in their access to and understanding of new information technology. Details a collaborative partnership among five administrative units to plan faculty support for the adaptation of new technologies for instructional purposes. Provides some guidelines for implementing technology support services for faculty, and details some of the obstacles the university met along the way.

Abstract: Examines traditional notions of the campus as a physical place, and considers how those notions must be reexamined in light of the movement towards an increasingly virtual campus. Challenges institutions to recognize the value and importance of a sense of place consistent with the development of both the physical and virtual campuses. Such a sense of place, the author contends, is central to fostering a learning community.

Abstract: This article describes the administrative challenge that directors of distance learning programs have to face throughout the United States. It outlines the confusion and problems that exsit with the lack of a singular vision for distance learning. Several distance learning models presented with recommendations.

Abstract: We tend to ecpect the new technology to promote economic prosperty and a more democratic society. However, there is no evidence that it improves the economic productivity of society as a whole, and neither is it socially inclusive. Higher eduction cannot afford to be a s profligate with its resource as the industrial world has proved to be, but it can support progress. It has the twin responsiblities of (1) achieving the potential of learning technologies for the way it conducts its core business and (2) playing iots role as the engine of a learning society.

Abstract: A review of some seventeen years of administrative practice is shared from a strategic planning perspective as influenced by the writings of Keller and the expectations of the institutional effectiveness movement. The position is taken that strategic and operational planning must be integrally related, and that one can not have one without the other.

Abstract: Book Review of Campus Planning and Facility Development: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 3d ed., by Ira Fink and Associates, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-885575-05-X

Abstract: Book Review of Collegial Professionalism: The Academy, Individualism, and the Common Good, by John B. Bennett. Oryx Press, 1998. 193 pages. ISBN 1-57356-093-6.

Abstract: The history of campus development illustrates the essential role that the physical environment of insitutions plays in the learning experience. The imperatives for institutions in the new millenium is to restore the sense of place and community. These ase three global driving the imperative -the resolution of communication technology, the influence of diversity and globalization, and the impact of "homogenization: of the built environment in America.