Learning Resources

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: Book review: The Power of the Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions, by Winifred Gallagher. Harper Perennial, 1994. 240 pages. ISBN 0-06-097602-0

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

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: 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.

Abstract: Subtitles: The storm begins; Push comes to shove; What made it possible; And then the backlash; Pull quotes: "Across the country higher education support is being squeezed out." "Governor Schaefer was not happy." "The entire network was stunned by the rapidity with which the Regents acted." "Good data were a critical factor."

Abstract: Book review: The Law of Higher Education, third edition, by William Kaplin and Barbara Lee. Jossey-Bass, 1995. 1056 pages. ISBN 0-7879-0052-4.

Abstract: Book review: The Nondesigner's Design Book: Design and typographic Principles for the Visual Novice, by Robin Williams. Peachpit Press, 1994. 144 pages. ISBN 1-56609-159-4.

Abstract: Subtitles: Phooey on vision; The new demands; Vision's key ingredients; Misconceptions and fallacies; An emotional lever for change. Pull quotes: "Human beings have been provided with two kinds of vision." "The caretaker view of college leadership has become a perilous one." "How can a university decentralize and still have a coordinated effort?" "The vision must have a tangible outcome." "Colleges lack sufficient powers of social invention." "Visions speak to our entire selves.