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12%OFFAndrew J. Policano - Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities - 9780804786959 - V9780804786959
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Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities

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Description for Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities Paperback. The protective mechanisms that have sheltered public universities are eroding. This book shows how this class of school can adapt to new funding realities, adopt focused strategies, and can create structural changes that place a greater emphasis on financial viability, market accountability, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JNKG; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.

Public No More examines the quickly changing environment within higher education, including the permanent decline in state support for public universities. This book raises the question of how research universities can survive with reduced subsidies and increased competition from both non-profit and growing for-profit institutions. Authors Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano, both longtime university administrators, offer a strategic framework for determining how tuition and access should be set and how universities should decide on quality and program scope. Throughout the text, real-world examples illustrate successful and unsuccessful adoptions of the authors' proposals.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804786959
SKU
V9780804786959
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99-1

About Andrew J. Policano
Gary C. Fethke served as a university administrator for over twenty-five years, as Dean of the Business School and Interim President at the University of Iowa. He is the Leonard A. Hadley Professor of Leadership in the Tippie College of Business. Andrew J. Policano is the Dean's Leadership Circle Professor and Dean of the Paul Merage School ... Read more

Reviews for Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities
"Public universities historically haven't dealt well with the harsh realities of dropping revenues and rising global competition, but they'd better get started, warn Fethke of the University of Iowa and Policano of UC Irvine. . . Write the authors, 'We predict that schools that move toward self-reliance, with strategies that identify and implement a financially viable plan, will become the ... Read more

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