Full Description
This book is organized around 11 topics, including the skills and personal qualities needed to provide effective academic leadership; strengthening the infrastructure for academic affairs through strategic planning, facilities planning, and technology integration; the importance of developing new resources and linking them to academic priorities; academic entrepreneurship; assessing academic quality and improving programs and services; continuous improvement; the central importance of investing in the faculty; and improving academic decisions.
Contents
1 Preface 2 Academic LeadershipEffectiveness 3 Strategic Planning: Linking Campus Environment and Academic Purpose 4 Facilities Planning: Linking Campus Environment and Academic Purpose 5 Technology Integration: Improving Learning and Productivity 6 Academic Entrepreneurship: Marketing Intellectual Capital 7 Program Review: Pursuing Academic Quality and Cost-Effectiveness 8 Continuous Improvement: Enhancing Value, Service, and Efficiency 9 Faculty Workload: Understanding Productivity and Equity 10 Faculty Compensation: Applying Equity, Market, and Merit 11 Improving Academic Decisions: Using International Research 12 References 13 Index
