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The Organization of Higher Education: Managing Colleges for a New Era
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Bastedo, Michael N., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
Colleges and universities are best understood as networks of departments working together to fulfill a mission of education, innovation, and community partnership. To better understand how these large and complex institutions function, scholars can apply organizational and strategic planning concepts made familiar by business management. This book…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Organizational Theories, College Administration
Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform
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Bulkley, Katrina E., Ed.; Henig, Jeffrey R., Ed.; Levin, Henry M., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
"Between Public and Private" examines an innovative approach to school district management that has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which "a central office oversees a portfolio of schools offering diverse organizational and curricular themes, including traditional public…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts, Educational Change
Agency and Structure: Dialectics in the Administration of Education. ESA844, Administrative Context of Schooling.
Watkins, Peter – 1985
This volume is part of a series of monographs from Australia devoted to outlining an alternative approach, based on neo-Marxist concepts, to educational administration. The introductory essay in this volume attempts to develop and clarify the basis for an alternative, dialectical approach to educational administration, which emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Bureaucracy, Educational Administration