Strategic Choices for the Academy: How Demand for Lifelong Learning Will Re-Create Higher Education (Josse Bass Higher and Adult Education) [Hardcover]

Daniel James Rowley (Author), Herman D. Lujan (Author), Michael G. Dolence (Author)

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Publication Date: April 10, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0787940674 | ISBN-13: 978-0787940676 | Edition: 1st

This book is a must-read for higher education administrators and faculty in any discipline. Beyond distance and life-long learning, it is the actual method of instruction in every discipline that will change?worldwide. This book covers both the change in faculty behavior that will be required as well as the emerging organizational structure of the university of the future.


?James B. Appleberry, president, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC

This new book shows how the world's increasing depAndence on lifelong access to new knowledge is transforming the landscape of higher education and forcing the academy to rethink virtually all of its systems and traditions. Building on the strategic planning and management concepts set out in their previous books, the authors equip readers with a clear understanding of the challenges and options before them and equally clear strategies for reaching out to new learners, restructuring administrative systems, redefining faculty roles, and repositioning these institutions to survive in the information age.

Part One: The Bases for Change

1. Pressures on Higher Education in the Information Age

2. Strategic Change in the Wake of Controversy

3. Cultivating Internal; Readiness for Change

4. Analyzing Global Responses to the New Learning Needs

Part Two: Strategic Response to the Need for Learning

5. Serving the Lifelong Learner

6. Creating a Flexible Concept of Academic Organization

7. Achieving Strategic Fit Between Strengths and Opportunities

8. Expanding Channels for Instructional Delivery

Part Three: Re-Creating Higher Education Through Strategic Choices

9. The New Learning Infrastructure

10. The Faculty, Facilities, and Administration of the Future

11. Partnerships to Produce and Transfer Knowledge

12. The Academy of the Future; Scenarios and Models

13. Achieving Strategic Transformation

Daniel James Rowley is professor of Management at the University of Northern Colorado.

Herman D. Lujan is the former president of the University of Northern Colorado.

Michael G. Dolence consults with higher education institutions, systems, associations and vAndors nationally.

Editorial Reviews

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"This book is useful for the advisor or advising administrator who wants further to understand the forces behind change in academia." --NACADA Journal

"This book is a must read for higher education administrators and faculty in any discipline. Beyond distance and life-long learning, it is the actual method of instruction in every discipline that will change worldwide. This book covers both the change in faculty behavior that will be required as well as the emerging organizational structure of the university of the future." -- James B. Appleberry, president, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC

"A brilliant blueprint for entering a new millennium. The authors, already well-established strategic thinkers, offer another critical service to those in the higher education community from trustees to presidents to professors to students. Not only do they ask demanding questions about moving in sensible new strategic directions, they provide answers essential to the very well-being of the academy." -- James R. Collier, vice president, university advancement, and executive director, San Francisco State University Foundation

"Most college and university presidents are becoming acutely aware that technology and the new information age will permanently change the academy. Rowley, Lujan and Dolence have provided a compelling argument that universities must adapt or face atrophy. They provide a blueprint for easing the transition into the information age. They place the changes in historical perspective, provide an update on the new challenges and discuss strategies for effective responses to change. This is a book that forward-looking university presidents will not only want to have displayed prominently on their bookshelves, but it will be the only one they will read, mark and share with others. --?Naomi Lynn, chancellor, University of Illinois, Springfield

From the Inside Flap

Academics are under increasing pressure to develop a prototype for the future university that will keep pace with the increasing need for access to lifelong learning. Strategic Choices for the Academy is filled with practical advice for developing strategic plans that will transform colleges and universities to meet the demands of today's (and tomorrow's) information age learner. Drawing on the strategic planning and management concepts presented in their companion books, Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities and Working Toward Strategic Change, the authors reveal which innovative organizational structures, facilities, teaching approaches, reward systems, and delivery systems are most effective for providing education to this new segment of learners?those who come to learn in every stage of life and who may be increasingly reluctant to enroll in traditional campus settings. The book also presents a series of flexible models that can be adapted to the strategic direction and needs of individual institutions.Using the tools and information in Strategic Choices for the Academy, educators and administrators can serve the needs of today's learners and survive and prosper into the future.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (April 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787940674
• ISBN-13: 978-0787940676
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,356,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Strategic Choices for the Academy: How Demand for Lifelong Learning Will Re-Create Higher Education (Josse Bass Higher and Adult Education) (Hardcover)

Full of university buzzwords and controversial advice regarding tenure and department structures, this book should be on the reading list of academic administrators, particularly those involved in distance learning, continuing education, and corporate education.

The authors essentially track changes in academia, point to new pressures on universities, and warn that universities that fail to make "strategic choices" will be left behind. These pressures include those exerted by new technology, workforce needs (the "demand for lifelong learning") and trends such as distance learning and experiential learning.

Whether the authors are entirely correct or not, these are the hot issues in academia today. Each week, the Chronicle of Higher Education features at least one article on one of these topics. Industry, IT and workforce needs plus technology developments are all forces putting pressure on universities and it will be interesting to see what the typical State U looks like twenty years from now.

All of that said, this book is really difficult to get through. Written by three authors, it would benefit greatly from the strong hand of one good editor. There is repetition from one chapter to the next, such that the reader is at risk of nodding off just when new information might appear.

Therefore, it's a mixed bag. Hard to read, but really full of timely material for those in academic administration.