Divided Conversations: Identities, Leadership, and Change in Public Higher Education

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173 Index AAC&U. See Association of American Colleges & Universities AASCU. See American Association of State Colleges and Universities Abbott, Andrew, 82–83 academic capitalism, 12–13 access to higher education challenges of expanding, 23–25 decline in, 136–37 disabilities, for students with, 23–24 expanding, 21–23 as faculty motivation, 39–40 focus on, need for, 139–40 socioeconomic status and, 12 (see also socioeconomic status) accountability calls for, 19–20 popular concerns about, 130 administrative support staff, xiv, 92 administrators, 59 academic work, giving up, 113–14 accidental, 62, 67–68, 72, 76 career paths of, 68–69, 79, 98 change, envisioning, 74–76 the commons, task of constituting, 131–33 daily experiences of, 105–9 demographics of, changing, 7–8 department chairs as/relations with, 94–96 faculty, relations with (see facultyadministrator relations) faculty hiring, significance of, 106–7 identity of, 71–74, 76–77, 83–84, 112–14, 143 institutional structures and, 56–57 leadership of, 149–51 mobility of, 47–51, 62–66 motivations to become, 60–62, 69–71, 79–80 nonfaculty professional staff, growth of, 146 other administrators, cynicism regarding, 49–50 power of, 142 professionalization of, 145–47 reward structures for, 4, 28 salaries of, 61 training of, 28, 62, 77–78, 100, 143–44, 150–51, 157–58 alumni relations, 128–30 American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Academic Affairs meeting, faculty and administration at, 155 American Democracy Project, 143, 151, 156, 161 participation in, 141 Red Balloon Project, 5, 29 training by, 144, 150–51 174 Divided Conversations American Council on Education (ACE) authors’ experience at training programs of, xvi training programs for senior leadership, 29, 144, 150, 155 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 9 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 24 Aronowitz, Stanley, 145 Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), 20, 144 Barden, Dennis, 76 Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, 12 Blackboard, Inc., 14 boards of trustees, 127–28 Boston, University of Massachusetts at, New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 78 Bousquet, Marc, 145 Boxer, Marilyn, 82 Boyer, Ernest, 18 budgets. See funding Calhoun, Craig, viii California at Santa Barbara, University of, 38 Campus Compact, 151 capitalism, academic, 12–13 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 151 Castleton State College, 156 chain referral sampling techniques, 2 chairs, department. See department chairs change community-organizing model and, 116–18, 154–60 department chairs and, 102–3 explaining resistance to, xx–xxii faculty-administration gap, shared governance and, 143–49 fundamental questions regarding, 135–36 funding and, 136–38 power and, 141–43 prestige and, 138–41 promotion and tenure system and, 160–61 (see also tenure and promotion) structure of disciplines and departments as barrier to, 90 charter colleges, 12 Chronicle of Higher Education, 35–36, 86 civic engagement, 151–52 collective bargaining and grievances, 53–56, 118–22 community-organizing model, 116–18, 126, 133, 159 comprehensive teaching universities, 141 corporations, deals with, 12–13 costs. See funding Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), 151 course management software, 14 curriculum, departmental control of, 91 Davis, Lennard, 38 Del Favero, Marietta, 52 department chairs authority, responsibility without, 101–3 change, rewards and difficulties of creating, 102–3 faculty-administration gap, passage across, 144 good, advantages of, 92–93, 149 junior faculty and, 93–94 motivations for becoming, 96–99 senior administrators, relationships with, 94–96 students and, 93 training and support for, 100, 156–57 departments as administrative units, 91–92 Index 175 curriculum, control of, 91 disciplines and, relationship between, 84 dysfunctional, 87–91 as faculty family, 86–87 interdisciplinary, 84–86, 91 disciplines departments and, relationship between, 84 fields and subfields within, 85–86 identity provided by, 83–86 organization of faculty and students by, 81–83 distance learning, 13–14 divided conversations. See facultyadministrator relations Dreifus, Claudia, 5 Eckel, Peter, viii, xv educational-industrial complex, 28 enrollments, increasing, 9 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, 15 equal opportunity process, 121–22 Evergreen State College, 83 faculty adjunct and part-time, 7, 16, 142, 148, 160–61 administrators, relations with (see faculty-administrator relations) assessing what students learn, interest in, 20 career disappointment, dealing with, 44–45 cohorts, relations between, 41–42, 115–16, 147–48 colleagues who become administrators, perceptions of, 60–61 demographics of, 7–8, 114–15 departments and (see departments) disciplines, organization by (see disciplines) expanded access, challenges posed by, 22–25 hiring, 34–37, 106–7, 121–22, 139–40 institutional...