Idea Lab : colleges solving problems. Mergers and collaboration / Chronicle of Higher Education.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Mergers--United States.

Universities and colleges.

University cooperation--United States.

University cooperation.

Universities and colleges--Mergers.

United States.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Administration.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

42 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Mergers and collaboration

Idea lab : mergers and collaboration

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., [2018]

Summary:

A collection of essays and articles examining mergers and collaborations at both private and public institutions. It includes case studies, tips to make collaboration work, and advice from leaders and other administrators who have managed a merger.

Contents:

How collaboration can save money : colleges work together to share administrative work and save academic programs

Insights about collaboration : seven lessons on how to work well with other institutions

The networked university : through technology, multiple institutions can link together to deliver services at a discount

Georgia's mergers offer lessons, and caution : the consolidation of 14 public colleges has produced benefits, but not a windfall in savings

My community college is joining a university : the proposal seemed dubious, but it may work well in reality

Colleges consider mergers

cautiously : joining forces with another institutions can solve some problems but bring new ones as well

Lessons from a merger : what a former president of a small college learned when it joined a larger institution

What college mergers usually fail to fix : simply cutting administrators won't solve all your problems

How Maine became a laboratory for the future of public higher ed : among other experiments, the system is consolidating administrative tasks

Building a new research system : universities should join forces for programs that tap their combined strengths

Small research institutes form partnerships to survive : mergers with universities provide support to cash-strapped scientists.

Notes:

Title from cover.

OCLC:

1125325909