By Philip G. Altbach
Leadership for World-Class Universities unearths how "world-class" considering and coverage will help collage leaders hire glossy strategies to the demanding situations dealing with better schooling this day. Readers will reap the benefits of most sensible perform recommendation provided by means of exclusive foreign individuals who've excelled through considering globally with out wasting sight in their respective nationwide and native environments. Their essays are grounded in empirical learn and written to have interaction the reader, stimulate mirrored image and improve functionality. This e-book focuses specially on constructing and middle-income international locations, which face unique difficulties the place greater schooling is increasing so much rapidly.
Key topics include:
- strategic planning
- governance of educational institutions
- the position of the tutorial profession
- fundraising
- student entry and equity
- the impression of globalization
Leadership for World-Class Universities is a important source for senior collage directors. on the middle of this quantity is a spotlight on how educational leaders can paintings in the direction of resolving the complicated matters dealing with universities at the present time.
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