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Download full textBickerstaff, Susan; Moussa, Adnan – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This study examines the efforts of higher education systems in six states to implement large-scale changes to improve student outcomes in mathematics in community colleges and four-year colleges and universities as part of the Mathematics Pathways to Completion (MPC) project. The three-year project was launched in 2015 to help Arkansas,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Institutional Cooperation
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Direct linkHearn, James C.; Mclendon, Michael K. – Academe, 2005
Every state in the union has "sunshine" laws that apply to public higher education, and the leaders of public institutions deal directly or indirectly with these laws almost daily. Sunshine statutes go to the very heart of institutional functioning, influencing presidential searches and selection, board deliberations, research and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Politics of Education, School Law, College Administration
Berdahl, Robert O.; MacTaggart, Terrence J. – 2000
Massachusetts currently maintains several charter schools in its K-12 educational system. This paper applies the charter school idea to public institutions of higher education. Charter colleges are publicly owned institutions managed independent of most controls imposed by state bureaucracies and higher education systems. Charter schools are more…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Massachusetts State Board of Regents of Higher Education, Boston. – 1989
A report by the Chancellor of the Massachusetts State Board of Regents notes that the effectiveness of public higher education in the state depends upon the excellence of the individual colleges and universities. Five sections deal respectively with: context; governance and coordination (stressing the need to act as a system); a proposal for…
Descriptors: Budgets, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Gibbons, Joan A., Ed.; Johnson, Beth H., Ed. – 1991
This proceedings document discusses academic leadership in uncertain times, the need for a cooperative model of collective bargaining to provide administration and faculty the flexibility required to respond to changing times, who should bargain for whom and for what, readiness of the next generation to lead, and retirement issues for college…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Governing Councils, Community Colleges
MacTaggart, Terrence J., Ed. – 1996
This book presents nine papers about changing the way public higher education is governed. After providing an overview of the recent history of governance restructuring or renewal in public higher education in the United States, the book focuses on restructuring in five states: North Dakota, Massachusetts, Alaska, Maryland, and Minnesota. Part 1…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Governing Councils
McDonald, Jean Graves – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1995
The paper presents an overview and analysis of the selection process of public college and university trustees and regents, examining the experiences of three states--Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Kentucky which use screening committees to assist governors in the selection of regents. The discussion also covers two statewide trustee orientation…
Descriptors: Board Candidates, College Administration, Collegiality, Evaluation Criteria
