Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York (The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691169942 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Well-documented and exceptionally well-written, the book’s accounts of the interplay between the central administration and the faculty and unions are revealing. With the narrative flow of a novel, and carefully presenting all views while objectively arguing her position, Logue puts readers firmly in the placesonstage and backstagewhere arguments, counterarguments, and negotiations occurred at The City University of New York."--Elizabeth Nunez, Hunter College, CUNY"This interesting and engaging book looks at the history and controver
She is the author of The Psychology of Eating and Drinking and Self-Control: Waiting Until Tomorrow for What You Want Today. Alexandra W. . From 2008 to 2014, she served as executive vice chancellor and university provost of the CUNY system. Logue is a research professor at the Center for Advanced Study in Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She lives in New York City
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. In this environment, she argues, it is shared governance, combined with a strong, central decision-making authority, that best facilitates necessary reform. 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. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controversial reform initiative kno