Wise Moves in Hard Times: Creating & Managing Resilient Colleges & Universities (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education (Hardcover))

Leslie, David W.

ISBN 10: 0787901962 / ISBN 13: 9780787901967

Published by Jossey-Bass, 1996

About this Item

This work explores the causes and implications of the many sources of stress with which higher education is dealing, analyzing the effects of such stresses on the academic enterprise. The authors describe and compare diverse institutional responses to fiscal and other problems. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517. . 1996. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wise Moves in Hard Times: Creating & Managing Resilient Colleges & Universities (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education (Hardcover))
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787901962
• ISBN 13: 9780787901967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.