A Critical Look at Institutional Mission

A Critical Look at Institutional Mission
Author: Joseph Janangelo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781602358409

Explores the relevance of institutional mission to writing program administration and writing center direction, helping WPAs and writing center directors understand the challenges and opportunities mission poses to their work. It also examines ways WPAs and writing center directors can work with and against mission statements and legacy practices.

A Critical Look at Institutional Mission

A Critical Look at Institutional Mission
Author: Joseph Janangelo
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1602358435

This book explores the relevance of institutional mission to writing program administration and writing center direction. It helps WPAs and writing center directors understand the challenges and opportunities mission can pose to their work. It also examines ways WPAs and writing center directors can work with and against mission statements and legacy practices to do their best work.

Mission and Change

Mission and Change
Author: Graham Peeke
Publisher: Open University Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780335193387

Graham Peeke reviews critically the concept of institutional mission in higher and further education, and evaluates the claims made for its use. Through case studies he analyses different methods of establishing objectives, provides guidance on how to operationalize missions so that they are more than just rhetoric, and links institutional change with the development of a strategic perspective in education management. He argues that it is essential to adopt participative methods in mission development, that procedures for operationalization are crucial, and that broad dimensions of mission need to be agreed with the core of the organization. However, given the plurality of educational organizations, he also argues that autonomy is necessary for significant groupings throughout the institutions. This is essential reading for all policy-makers and managers in higher and further education, and for researchers into the management of higher education.

On Thinking Institutionally

On Thinking Institutionally
Author: Hugh Heclo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199946000

The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally. His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and the concept of office and professionalism. Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think institutionally.

Labored

Labored
Author: Randall McClure
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 160235894X

Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition, edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael Pemberton, offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the 1989 Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing and its relation to the changing nature of work in composition. Stemming from an investigative project to strengthen the Statement with data culled from national reports on labor conditions, this collection draws on the expertise of scholars whose research agendas and lived experiences afford fresh insights and critical analyses on labor issues in composition and writing program administration.

Strategy and Success Factors of Business Schools

Strategy and Success Factors of Business Schools
Author: Anne Kathrin Adam
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2016-07-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658145196

Anne Kathrin Adam conducts several empirical analyses to gain insights into the characteristics of institutional goals and strategy as well as the relationship between goals, strategy, and factors of success of business schools. The author gives an overview of the content of mission statements, strategic profiles of 521 U.S. AACSB-accredited business schools, and the importance of various factors of influence on selected dimensions of market success. Her findings stress the importance of setting a clear strategic focus.

Institutional Review Board

Institutional Review Board
Author: Elizabeth A. Bankert
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2006
Genre: Institutional review boards (Medicine)
ISBN: 9780763730499

This comprehensive reference covers three separate areas related to IRBs: administration, daily management; and ethical issues. This instructional manual provides IRB members and administrators with the information they need to run an efficient and effective system of protecting human research subjects, while remaining in compliance with federal research regulations. The text includes case studies, sample forms, and sample policy documents. The updated Second Edition includes seven new chapters: IRB Closure of Study Files, Internet Research, Research in Public Schools, Phase I Clinical Trials in Healthy Volunteers, Vulnerability in Research, Balancing the Risks and Potential Benefits,and HIPAA.

A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators

A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators
Author: Rita Malenczyk
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1602354359

Influenced by Erika Lindemann’s A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators delineates the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration and provides readers new to that field with theoretical lenses through which to view those issues and questions. In brief and direct though not oversimplified chapters, A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators explains the historical and theoretical background of such concepts as “academic freedom,” “first-year composition,” “basic writing,” “writing across the curriculum,” “placement,” “ESL,” “general education,” and “transfer. ” Its thirty-nine contributors are seasoned writing program and center administrators who, in a range of voices, map the discipline of writing program administration and guide readers toward finding their own answers to solving problems at their own institutions.