Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469646862.003.0002
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
Using lists of great universities, the locations of Nobel laureates, or the extent to which folks from other countries attend colleges, American universities still stand as the world’s best. This is because the curriculum is anchored in the liberal arts, research is curiosity-driven, social mobility is central to the mission, governance is grounded in faculty autonomy and academic freedom, and the partnership with the federal government is unique and extraordinary.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469646862.003.0007
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
In 2012, the rectors of the University of Virginia carried out a failed attempt to oust President Teresa Sullivan, demonstrating how a lack of understanding of shared governance and the importance of the internal dynamics of a university can frustrate university trustees. Bart Giamatti said that a university presidency is “a mid-nineteenth-century ecclesiastical position on top of a late-twentieth-century corporation.” While trustees have some important formal powers, most of their influence is informal and has to be navigated within the internal customs and traditions of the university. Two leaders who have navigated these dynamics successfully but in very different ways are Mark Wrighton and Gordon Gee.
2012年，弗吉尼亚大学(University of Virginia)的校长们试图罢免校长特蕾莎·沙利文(Teresa Sullivan)，但未能成功。这表明，缺乏对共同治理和大学内部动态重要性的理解，会让大学受托人感到沮丧。Bart Giamatti说，大学校长是“19世纪中期教会在20世纪末公司高层的职位”。虽然受托人有一些重要的正式权力，但他们的影响大多是非正式的，必须在大学的内部习俗和传统中进行导航。马克•赖特顿和戈登•吉是成功驾驭这些动态的两位领导人，但方式截然不同。
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0011
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
The expectation of employment after graduation is fundamental to the rationale for American higher education. The public is challenging the economic value of a college education and job readiness is at the heart of the debate. Ironically, academics believe their students are being well prepared for employment in the private sector but potential employers strongly disagree. To address this challenge schools must be transparent about the credential they are offering and if job readiness is not an explicit objective that should be disclosed. Other steps that cannot enhance job readiness include involving non-traditional instructors; develop innovative faculty training; integrate internships and experiential learning into the curriculum; address the career issue during the first year and set measurable goals for career readiness initiatives.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0013
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
All of the key parties have an important role to play in rebuilding the partnership. Trustees and policymakers must be careful not to micro-manage; allow Chancellors to build their own teams; respect the views of the faculty and allow the Chancellor the leeway to gain the support of the faculty; support research as well as teaching and be cognizant of the fact that politics are deeply ingrained in the discussion; Administrators must stay close to students, preferably by teaching; embrace the role of faculty member; stay suspicious of administration; engage with academic medicine; and raise funds for true priorities. Faculty must teach with enthusiasm; participate in the community; realistically assess the job prospects of your graduate students; and do not seek administrative positions to further academic goals—programmatic endowment is better. Students should do their homework before applying to college; engage the community once you are admitted; clarify your goals for the college experience and ask for help when you need it.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0010
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
The time is right for universities to undertake the internal changes necessary to create a culture supportive of innovation and entrepreneurship. These efforts cannot however come at the expense of basic research. The tension between basic research and the public expectation that research will impact the world’s biggest problems is another issue at the heart of effort to rebuild the partnership between higher education and the public. Applied research can be more easily explained and therefore can serve as a means of gaining political and financial support for research efforts. To achieve the cultural change required entrepreneurship must be defined broadly as a way of thinking, entrepreneurs must be integrated into the faculty and into the curriculum, and clear measures of success must be established and tracked carefully. All of this must be accomplished without compromising the values at the heart of American higher education.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469646862.003.0009
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
The prosperity of regional economies is inescapably linked to the health of their colleges and universities. Economic development has evolved from a by-product of higher education to a public expectation. Schools both big and small have emerged as crucial economic engines often taking the place of Fortune 500 corporations as a major generator of jobs and tax revenue. Economic impact can be maximized by developing a clear strategy, streamlining technology transfer, effectively managing conflicts of interest and developing mechanisms for bridging the chasm between the academy and the commercial world. It is critical that economic development be encouraged in service of the core mission of the university: research and teaching.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0008
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
The war on disease has been a primary animating purpose of higher education and the partnership with the public ever since Vannevar Bush wrote the influential paper, Science: The Endless Frontier, that led to the formation of the federal funding research enterprise. The academic medicine function of universities is politically popular and often seen as separate from the ideas that obtain in undergraduate education. Nonetheless, it is important for presidents and trustees to see the relationship closely. The governance of academic medicine is complex and can involve interlocking lay boards and tricky relationships with the board, chancellor or president, and provost.
自从Vannevar Bush写了一篇有影响力的论文《科学:无尽的前沿》(Science: The Endless Frontier)，导致了联邦资助研究企业的形成以来，与疾病的战争一直是高等教育和与公众合作的主要目标。大学的学术医学功能在政治上是受欢迎的，通常被视为与本科教育中获得的思想分开。尽管如此，校长和受托人密切关注这种关系是很重要的。学术医学的管理是复杂的，可能涉及到相互关联的董事会，以及与董事会、校长或校长以及教务长之间棘手的关系。
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469646862.003.0003
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
While economic data show that a college degree is still a very worthwhile and important investment of time and money, the public’s realization of this is eroding. In addition to these political challenges, higher education is grappling with changing demographics, which lead to a reduction in the number of students who can pay the full tuition and a change in where the new students are located; financial challenges that stem from the fact that higher education continues to increase in costs while revenue sources are shrinking; and technological challenges that change how students want to receive knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0004
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
Strategy is about being different and about making hard choices but a university community is governed by consensus and therefore resists direction from the top and has difficulty choosing between competing priorities generated from below that create winners and losers. Nevertheless, external forces such as changing demographics, financial realities and emerging technology will force rapid change either voluntarily or involuntarily. The schools that survive will be those who develop an effective strategy and stick to it.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-10DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469646862.003.0005
H. Thorp, Buck Goldstein
The relationship with undergraduate students is responsible for the primary opinions that the public has about higher education. Popular culture creates an image that all college students are eighteen years old, live in residence halls, and are recent high school graduates who pay the full tuition rate. In reality, many college students are adult learners, do not live on campus, and most get significant financial aid. Recent economic studies show that there are large numbers of unserved college students in the United States who do not know that they can attend excellent colleges and that low-income students who do attend excellent colleges graduate at a very similar rate and achieve financial status that is very similar to wealthier students.
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