Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education - Softcover

Keller, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801830303 ISBN 13: 9780801830303

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983

Synopsis

A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them. -- Washington PostGeorge Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number of campuses have faced hard times creatively. -- Higher Education

About this title

About the Author:

George Keller was one of America's leading scholars of higher education, a noted strategic planner and consultant, and an award-winning writer and editor who worked as a faculty member, a college dean, and a presidential assistant. He was the author of Academic Strategy and Transforming a College, both also published by Johns Hopkins.

Review:

"A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them."

(Washington Post)

"George Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal with future uncertainties and shows how a number of campuses have faced hard times creatively."

(Higher Education)

"In a poll of 117 college presidents across the nation who were asked what books helped them with their jobs... the book most frequently cited was Academic Strategy."

(New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0801830303
• ISBN 13: 9780801830303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224