Planning and Management for a Changing Environment

Download or read book Planning and Management for a Changing Environment written by Marvin W. Peterson and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning and Management for a Changing EnvironmentAn outstanding roster of higher education scholars and practitioners brings together the latest expertise on strategic and operational planning. In twenty-seven original chapters, contributors offer insight into the challenge of positioning higher education institutions to meet the demands of their rapidly changing environments. In this comprehensive resource, the authors emphasize the importance of contextual planning?that is, planning based in the unique circumstances and environment of each individual institution?as the only planning approach that will yield successful results.The contributors include: Paul T. Brinkman, Ellen Earle Chaffee, Burton R. Clark, David William Cohen, Eric L. Dey, David D. Dill, Elaine El-Khawas, Rhonda Martin Epper, Peter T. Ewell, Ira Fink, Dorothy E. Finnegan, Fred J. Galloway, Harvey A. Goldstein, William H. Graves, Patricia J. Gumport, Raymond M. Haas, Terry W. Hartle, Robert G. Henshaw, Richard B. Heydinger, Sylvia Hurtado, Sarah Williams Jacobson, Dennis P. Jones, George Keller, R. Sam Larson, Bruce A. Loessin, Michael I. Luger, Theodore J. Marchese, Lisa A. Mets, James R. Mingle, Anthony W. Morgan, James L. Morrison, Anna Neumann, John L. Oberlin, Anne S. Parker, Marvin W.Peterson, Brian Pusser, Frans van Vught, and Ian Wilson.