Public no more : a new path to excellence for America's public universities / Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fethke, Gary C. (Gary Craig), 1942- author.

Policano, Andrew J., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public universities and colleges--United States.

Public universities and colleges.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 265 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

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.

Leadership within public higher education, policymakers, and researchers alike will find this book to be a sober and well-grounded guide to what lies ahead for universities across the nation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : challenges, solutions, and themes

Challenges facing public research universities

A framework for defining, creating, and distributing value

Tuition setting in practice

Basic financial structure of public universities

Two prominent models for resource allocation : central-administration management and responsibility-centered management

Subsidies to public higher education

An efficiency-based subsidy and tuition policy

The quality of education

Cultural impediments to change

Templates for change and lost opportunities

Public no more.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.

ISBN:

9780804780506

0804780501

OCLC:

764361178