Administration & Faculty

2 Faculty versus Administration A Universal Problem

ith the premise of a modicum of faculty loyalty and W participation, colleges and universities can be likened to extended families. Indeed, the university is commonly described as being a “community of scholars.” Generally, faculty play a key role in governing their college or university, and make major decisions concerning the curriculum, the content of courses, degree requirements, and the li...

Subject : Report of the Senate - Administration Taskforce on Faculty Salaries

We do not, however, believe that this proposal is best strategy for addressing these issues. We considered the relative benefits and costs of the proposal, including purported improvements in faculty retention. The prevailing sense of DIVCO is that the costs of the proposal outweigh the modest benefits we can expect from its implementation. While there was a broad consensus on DIVCO opposing th...

Faculty of Business Administration and Economics University of Passau

Online consumers must burrow through vast piles of product information to find the best match to their preferences. This has boosted the popularity of recommendation agents promising to decrease consumers' search costs. Most recent work has focused on refining methods to find the best products for a consumer. The question of how many of these products the consumer actually wants to see, however...

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Collaboration of nursing faculty and college administration in creating organizational change.

At schools of nursing nationwide, surging enrollments in the early 2000s necessitated changes in administrative structures and departmental organization. The authors describe a collaboration between faculty and administrators at their midwestern liberal arts college that aided a reorganization of the school of nursing. Kurt Lewin's 1951 change theory provided the framework for the restructuring...