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: 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: Book Review of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement (revised edition), by John M. Bryson. Jossey-Bass, 1995. 325 pages. ISBN 0-7879-0141-5.

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: Book review of "The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System," by Arthur M. Cohen. Jossey-Bass, 1998. 495 pages. ISBN 0-7879-1029-5.

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 When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student, by Arther Levine and Jeanette S. Cureton. Jossey-Bass, 1998. 200 pages. ISBN 0--7879-3877-7.

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.

Abstract: This case study describes the proces used at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee (UWM) to develop a budget for maintaining general assignment classrooms that are centrally controlled and scheduled. The genesis of the problem with general assignment clasrooms is framed within the context of the "Tragedy of the Commons" described by Peter Senge in The Fifth Dimension. At UWM this resulted in the gradual deterioration of the quality iof the general assigenment classrooms and a corresponding backlog of deferred maintenance items. To redres the situation, the Provost's Office assumed "ownership" of the general assignment classrooms and became an advocate for them in the budget process. To ensure appropriate maintenance of both the spce and equipment in the general assigenment classrooms, we developed a maintenance budget using a simple depreciation model applied to a wide array of assest in the classrooms. We also did a separate financial analysis to determine how this budget should change as we deploy sophisticated instructional technologies in our general assignment classrooms. The methods we used in this analysis can be used by other colleges and universities seeking a better understanding of the costs of maintaining bothe the general physical enviroment and the instructional technology in classrooms.

Abstract: Since 1968 Messiah College, a small liberal arts college in Grantham, Pennsylvania, has operated a satellite campus in Philadelphia adjacent to in cooperation with Temple University. The urban satellite brings together the opportunities offered by a small community of scholars and the educational context of a major state university. The progam offers a vaible model linking two distinct types of campuses and locations: the program also provides a model for developing approaches to education which encourages students to cross demographic and cultural boundaires to study in settings which ofetn are considerably different from those to which they are accustomed.