Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone wanting to understand universities in the United States. John V. Lombardi gives …
In the United States, public colleges and universities educate more than 80 percent of the nation's 11 million college students. Public universities conduct the majority of the …
Research, teaching, service, and public outreach-all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly …
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, …
The single best description of the inside workings of contemporary universities.Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone …
The first nation-wide analysis of the politics of performance funding in higher education.Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to …
The first scholarly edition of Thorstein Veblen's classic indictment of the corporate model of American university governance.Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen's The …
There was a time when the faculty governed universities. Not anymore.The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher …
Why would a university renowned for its school of medicine ever sell its teaching hospital? In his newest book, Dr. John A. Kastor presents an insider's view of why university …
Among higher education institutions in the United States, for-profit colleges and universities have steadily captured a larger share of the student market. A recent trend at …
