Wise Moves in Hard Times: Creating and Managing Resilient Colleges and Universities
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Leslie and Fretwell have produced as good a book as I have seen in the timely field of higher education's response to it pervasive long-range financial dilemmas.
--D. Bruce Johnstone, university professor and former chancellor, State University of New York
--D. Bruce Johnstone, university professor and former chancellor, State University of New York
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DAVID W. LESLIE is professor and coordinator of the Higher Education Program at Florida State University. He is a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and a former associate editor of The Review of Higher Education. Leslie is coauthor of The Invisible Faculty (with J.M. Gappa, Jossey-Bass, 1993). E. K. FRETWELL, JR. is Chancellor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a former interim president of the University of Massachussetts system and former president of the State University of New York College at Buffalo.
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Preface xi
The Authors xxi
Part One: Hard Times
1 Common Lessons from Hard Times 3
2 Sources of Stress 29
3 Impact of Stress 53
Part Two: Searching for Solutions
4 Mission and Organization 77
5 Decisions and Conflict 107
6 Teaching and learning in a New Era 135
Part Three: Wise Moves
7 Analyzing the Institution’s Condition 165
8 Triage 195
9 Strategy and Realism: Promoting Enlightened Change 217
10 Resilience in Times of Fiscal Stress 245
11 Unfinished Business 277
References 289
Index 296
