Pathways to Reform (eBook)

Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York

Alexandra W. Logue (Autor)

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2017
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8833-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest universityChange is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controversial reform initiative known as Pathways. The program aimed to facilitate the transfer of credits among the university's nineteen constituent colleges in order to improve graduation rates-a long-recognized problem for public universities such as CUNY. Hotly debated, Pathways met with vociferous resistance from many faculty members, drew the attention of local and national media, and resulted in lengthy legal action. In Pathways to Reform, Logue, the figure at the center of the maelstrom, blends vivid personal narrative with an objective perspective to tell how this hard-fought plan was successfully implemented at the third-largest university in the United States.Logue vividly illustrates why change does or does not take place in higher education, and the professional and personal tolls exacted. Looking through the lens of the Pathways program and factoring in key players, she analyzes how governance structures and conflicting interests, along with other institutional factors, impede change-which, Logue shows, is all too rare, slow, and costly. In this environment, she argues, it is shared governance, combined with a strong, central decision-making authority, that best facilitates necessary reform. Logue presents a compelling investigation of not only transfer policy but also power dynamics and university leadership.Shedding light on the inner workings of one of the most important public institutions in the nation, Pathways to Reform provides the first full account of how, despite opposition, a complex higher education initiative was realized.All net royalties received by the author from sales of this book will be donated to The City University of New York to support undergraduate student financial aid.

Autor

Alexandra W. Logue is a research professor at the Center for Advanced Study in Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. From 2008 to 2014, she served as executive vice chancellor and university provost of the CUNY system. She is the author of The Psychology of Eating and Drinking and Self-Control: Waiting Until Tomorrow for What You Want Today. She lives in New York City.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: academic degree • academic freedom • academic standards • Academic tenure • Academic term • Academic year • Accreditation • Advanced Placement • Adviser • alumnus • American Association of University Professors • Associate Degree • associate professor • Association of American Colleges and Universities • Attendance • Bachelor's degree • Baruch College • Borough of Manhattan Community College • Brooklyn College • Career • Central administration • Chancellor (education) • City University of New York • Clark Kerr • collective bargaining • College of Staten Island • Common Core State Standards Initiative • community college • Core Curriculum (Columbia College) • Course credit • Curriculum • Director of Communications • Doctor of Philosophy • Education • Education Credit • Education Policy • education reform • Employment • Faculty (academic staff) • first language • freshman • General Counsel • Governance • Grading (education) • Graduation • Guideline • Guttman Community College • higher education • Hunter College • implementation • Inside Higher Ed • Institution • Institutional Research • John Jay College of Criminal Justice • JSTOR • KC Johnson • Kingsborough Community College • learning • Lehman College • letter to the editor • Liberal arts education • Matthew Goldstein • Middle States Commission on Higher Education • New York State Education Department • of education • Pell Grant • percentage • plaintiff • President of Harvard University • Princeton University Press • Professional School • Professional Studies • Professor • Professors in the United States • Public university • Queensborough Community College • Requirement • Scholarship • science education • secondary education • state school • State University of New York • Student • student affairs • Students' union • Supervisor • Technology • The Chronicle of Higher Education • The New York Times • Transfer credit • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University • University of California • University of Chicago • University System • University System of Georgia • Voting • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8833-6 / 1400888336
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8833-7 / 9781400888337