1st Edition
Guiding the American University Contemporary Challenges and Choices
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Crisis and Opportunity
Chapter 2: Universities on Trial
Chapter 3: Essential Strengths: from Defense to Offense?
Chapter 4: Shared Governance
Chapter 5: The Administration: "Dark Side" or Positive Force; or Both?
Chapter 6: The Faculty
Chapter 7: Students and Their Services
Chapter 8: Beyond the Campus: Regional and Global Roles
Chapter 9: Adding It Up: "The University of the 21st Century"
Biography
Peter N. Stearns is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at George Mason University.
"Stearns provides a much-needed insider perspective and balanced consideration of both criticisms and defenses of public higher education. His experience and wisdom is evident throughout. He has illuminated the dialogue on several controversial topics such as faculty tenure, online course delivery, and the cost of a college education. Students of the administration and delivery of public higher education would do well to thoroughly digest his analysis."
--John H. Frederick, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Texas at San Antonio
"Stearns shares a unique angle on the key issues that higher education faces in the United States. His combined experiences as scholar, university administrator, and global observer allow him to see the complexities of higher education from an innovative and informed standpoint. Stearns takes a visionary approach to untangling the complexities of higher education., making his book a necessary read for institutional leaders and practitioners."
--Francisco Marmolejo, Tertiary Education Global Coordinator, The World Bank
