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Author Martin, James, 1948 January 14- author.

Title Consolidating colleges and merging universities : new strategies for higher education leaders / James Martin, James E. Samels & Associates.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description xv, 255 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
Summary In Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities, James Martin and James E. Samels bring together higher education leaders to talk about something that few want to discuss: how institutions might cooperate with their competitors to survive in this economic climate. Barring that, Martin and Samels argue, some will shutter their campuses. But closing, they emphasize, is a complex process that involves more than just sending the students home and turning off the lights. The first one-volume resource for presidents, trustees, provosts, chief financial officers, and faculty leaders planning to partner, merge, or close a college or university, the book offers specific guidelines and action steps used successfully to create multiple forms of partnership between higher education institutions. The book includes contributions by twenty nationally recognized leaders in partnership and strategic planning, as well as an appendix detailing key college and university mergers and closures since 2000. Each chapter includes informative responses from practitioners who answer the question, "What is the single most important lesson you would share with a planning team designing a partnership or merger this year?" Responding to many daunting questions now being raised nationally about institutional fragility and sustainability, Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities is an honest and practical guide to the possibilities and pitfalls of downsizing American higher education. -- From publisher's description.
Contents The consolidation of American higher education / James Martin and James E. Samels -- Reader's guide: the new typology of collaboration and closure / James E. Samels and James Martin -- When does large become too large? A view of higher education partnerships and the implications of institutional size / R. Michael Tanner -- "Systemness": a new way to lead and manage higher education systems / Nancy L. Zimpher -- Presidential vision and partnership development: an evolving view / Pamela Eibeck -- "We never thought this way ten years ago": how partnerships are reshaping academic leadership expectations / Vita Rabinowitz and James Stellar -- Why, and how, elite colleges and universities are joining forces / J. Matthew Hartley and Alan Ruby -- The community college option: how co-ventures can leverage student and academic resources / Kenneth Ender and Charles Middleton -- Technology as a driver of strategic alliances / Philip Regier and Lynsi Freitag -- A disruptive opportunity: competency-based education as a shaper of successful partnerships / Paul LeBlanc and Kristine Clerkin -- International objectives: the benefits and challenges in developing branch campuses and partnerships abroad / Michael Jackson and James Larimore -- Public-private partnerships: models that work / John Ottenhoff -- A new way to design and deliver higher education consortia / Phillip DiChiara -- Where partnerships begin: a fresh look at the purpose and outcomes of liberal arts college consortia / R. Owen Williams -- Why mergers are (quietly) increasing among colleges and universities: a review of the pros and cons / Susan Resneck Pierce -- If that moment arrives: the blueprint to close a college / Michael Hoyle -- Appendixes.
Subject Universities and colleges -- Mergers -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- Mergers. (OCoLC)fst01161827
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Samels, James E., author.
ISBN 9781421421674 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781421421681 (electronic)
1421421674 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1421421682 (electronic)

 
    
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