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Beaky, Lenore A. – Academe, 2010
City University of New York's (CUNY) new community college, planned almost entirely by administrators and slated to open in 2012, seems designed to shunt its student body into narrow, mostly terminal career-technical programs with the promise of an associate's degree at the end. But to what purpose? To "reimagine community college education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Tuchman, Gaye – Academe, 2011
An academic plan is a business plan disguised in the regalia donned for significant public ceremonies--black cap and gown, colorful hood, and, of course, gold tassel. Several years ago, the University of Connecticut started to plan for the economic disaster that was at the time so obviously in the future of higher education institutions. A formal…
Descriptors: Governance, Governing Boards, Accountability, College Faculty