New Directions for Higher Education
7 primary works
Book 56
Book 61
Book 62
Book 64
This sourcebook is about successful strategic planning. Grounded in practice and experience, rather than theory and research, it presents firsthand accounts of strategic planning as effectively employed by presidents who used that approach as a potent device for shaping the futures of their colleges and universities in a time of uncertainties and challenges. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Higher Education is to provides ideas, examples, and illustrations of strategic planning--a method by which institutions can creatively respond to threats and opportunities in the incresingly competitive environment confronting them, and at the same time, continue to serve the ideals that define their missions. This is the 64th issue of New Directions for Higher Education. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.
Book 67
Book 68
Book 80
This volume of New Directions for Higher Education is about linking assessments of students' learning with the patterns of their coursework. The contributors illustrate how and why assessment and curriculcum reform need to be combined, and they describe an innovative way in which to use student transcripts and college catalogues to analyze the curriculum in orcer to associate the coursework of students with the learning that they gain. The contributors also show how such assessment data can be used to examine questions about the curriculum, faculty development, and student advising. This is the 80th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.