American colleges and universities are facing their most difficult challenge since World War II - finding qualified faculty and administrators to manage and lead our institutions of higher education while grappling with budget cuts, public pressure for more and better educational programs, and resources that are strained to the limit. Studies point to a critical faculty shortage by the year 2010. In facing this shortage, these same institutions have never been less prepared to meet the challenge of hiring. Hiring at colleges and universities is normally done by "amateurs" - educators...
American colleges and universities are facing their most difficult challenge since World War II - finding qualified faculty and administrators to mana...
This collection of speeches and essays, written between 1998 and 2001, addresses major issues relating to higher education and the leadership and administration of its institutions. The role of (and need for) education in the United States, the challenges facing university administrators, cultural i
This collection of speeches and essays, written between 1998 and 2001, addresses major issues relating to higher education and the leadership and admi...
An eye-opening and at times controversial insider's look at the current state of higher education in America, from one of the nation's most distinguished and down-to-earth university presidents.
At a time when daily news headlines scream of competitive college enrollments, skyrocketing tuition, campus violence, alcohol and drug abuse, and other campus scandals, the former president of The George Washington University tells it like it really is. Educated at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard universities, with a membership in Phi Beta Kappa, more than fifteen honorary...
An eye-opening and at times controversial insider's look at the current state of higher education in America, from one of the nation's most di...
Presidencies Derailed is the first book to explore in depth why university presidencies fail and how university and college leadership can forestall, if not prevent, future leadership failures. Former university president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, along with professor Gerald B. Kauvar and former chancellor E. Grady Bogue, organize, classify, and explain patterns of leadership failures, drawing on firsthand testimonies from -derailed- university presidents, sixteen case studies in four sectors of higher education, and reviews of the scholarly literature on leadership failures in...
Presidencies Derailed is the first book to explore in depth why university presidencies fail and how university and college leadership can ...
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Gerald B. Kauvar E. Gordon Gee
Presidents and would-be presidents-as well as boards, search committees, state boards, legislators, and others involved in higher education-will find much helpful guidance in this timely book.
Presidents and would-be presidents-as well as boards, search committees, state boards, legislators, and others involved in higher education-will find ...
