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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: A New Perspective on U.S. Higher Education; Studying Strategic Behavior in Higher Education; New Qualitative Data; Overview of the Book; 2. Basic Conditions and Market Structure of the Higher Education Industry; Defining the Higher Education Industry; Four Key Revenue Markets; Student Enrollments; Research Funding; Public Fiscal Support; Private Giving; Other Revenue Markets; Institutional Objectives; Spending the Revenue: Basic Operating Costs and Discretionary Resources |
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Industry Structure, Conduct, and Performance3. Characterizing Institutional Position and Strategies; Overview; Defining Reputation and Prestige; Institutional Resource Allocation; Overall Comparison of P, PS, R, and PS-R Hybrid Type Institutions; The Carnegie Classification; Other Definitions of Prestige and Reputation; Summary; 4. Institutional Position and Strategy in the Four Key Revenue Markets; Student Enrollments; Research Funding; Public Fiscal Support; Overview of the Four Key Revenue Markets; 5. Relating Financial Health to Institutional Position and Strategy: Six Case Studies |
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The Concept of Financial HealthRevenues, Expenditures, and Resource Allocation; Site Visit Examples; University A: Maintaining a Financially Healthy Prestige Equilibrium; University B: Growth and Savvy Management Support Successful Prestige Seeking; College C: A Profitable, Customer-Oriented, Innovative School with a Good Reputation; University D: Financially Unhealthy Prestige Seeker Struggling to Overcome Location; University E: Expansion into Research Jeopardizing Financial Health; College F: Prestige Seeker with Expensive Ambitions; The Effect of Prestige Seeking on Financial Health |
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The Relationship of Resource Allocation Strategy to Financial HealthCosts and Faculty Power; When the Faculty Has Less Power; Summary; 6. Conclusions: The Implications of Prestige Seeking; A New Way of Thinking about Higher Education; Recent Interest in Prestige Generators; A Better Understanding; Getting to the Corner of the Position and Strategy Cube: Expanding Scope, Degree Level, and Prestige Seeking; Internal Pressures to Pursue Prestige; New Competitive Pressures and the Stock of Prestige; The Pseudo-Crisis in Higher Education; The Prestige-Seeking Dichotomy |
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The Evolution of the Higher Education Industry: The Dynamic Reputation-Based FringeAppendix: Data Collection and Analysis; Sites Visited; Data Collection Protocol; Documentation of Site Visits; Physical Description of Campus; Campus Life; Goals and Challenges; Plans; Student Markets; Faculty Markets; Revenue from Government Appropriations, Sponsored Research, Gifts, Grants, and Endowment; Costs; (Potential) Transformation; Analysis; References; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldman, Charles A
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Brewer, Dominic J
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| ISBN |
9781351513036 |
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1351513036 |
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