Understanding and Facilitating Organizational Change in the 21st Century: Recent Research and Conceptualizations: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Volume 28, Number 4There is a widespread discontent with the quality of education and levels of college student achievement, particularly for undergraduates preparing for the professions. This report examines the educational challenges in preparing professionals, reviews the specific types of curriculum innovations that faculty and administrators have created or significantly revised to strengthen college graduates' abilities, and focuses on the societal changes and expectations produced by the acceleration in technology. |
Contents
Focus of the Monograph | 4 |
Providing a Common Language for Understanding | 11 |
Timing of Change | 17 |
Understanding the Nature of Higher Education | 59 |
Unique Organizational Cultures of the Academy | 65 |
Organized Anarchical Decision Making | 71 |
Examination | 79 |
Teleological | 86 |
Cultural | 105 |
Summary | 111 |
Focus on Adaptability | 117 |
Know That Strategies for Change Vary by Change Initiative | 122 |
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19 | 133 |
Name Index | 149 |
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