{"product_id":"dynamics-of-the-contemporary-university-9780520275812","title":"Dynamics of the Contemporary University","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzes a number of contemporary trends and problems that are superimposed on the already-complex structures of higher education, such as the diminishing public support without alterations of governance and accountability, the increasing pattern of commercialization in higher education, the growth of distance-learning and for-profit institutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments       Chapter I: Dynamics of American Universities    Apologia    What Kind of Creature is Higher Education?    Functions    The Problematic Status of \"Functions\"    Moral Embeddedness    Structural Changes Accompanying Growth    Increasing the Size of Units    Segmentation of Units    Differentiation    Proliferation    Coordination    A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion    A Historical Sketch of the Process    The Discipline-based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So    Frail    The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments    Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion    Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern    Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion    The Structuring of Faculty Activities    Implications for Academic Community       Chapter 2: The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality    Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability    Of Pythons and Goats    Economic Fluctuations    Competitors for Resources    Relevance to Accretion    Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies    Internal Constituencies    External Constituencies    Accretion, Revenues, and Costs    Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics    Management as Science and Art    Administration as Threat to Academic Culture    Administration as Parkinsonian    The Structural Alternative    Implications for Shared Governance    Accretion and Academic Stratification    Institutional Prestige    Multicampus Systems and Stratification    Prestige Among Disciplines       Chapter 3: Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions    An Unprecedented Perfect Storm    Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance    General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs    Accountability, Governance, and Support.    The Many Faces of Commercialization    The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its    Consequences    Consumerism    Economizing as a Way of Life    University-Industry Relations    On-line Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-profits    Non-tenured and Part-time Faculty    Implications for Tenure    Excursus on Academic Freedom    Coda       References","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359051546967,"sku":"9780520275812","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520275812.jpg?v=1754123383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dynamics-of-the-contemporary-university-9780520275812","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}