Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper

This detailed guide outlines a strategic planning approach uniquelysuited to the academic environment and proven effective in numerousinstitutions around the country. The authors address the complexnature of stakeholders and conflicting purposes in an academicsetting. Their approach leads to?rather than starts from?theinstitutional mission statement, and includes realistic methods ofnegotiating the political barriers that often obstruct thedevelopment of a strategic plan and its implementation.

This informative book is particularly effective when used with thecompanion workbook Working Toward Strategic Change.

Author: Daniel James Rowley, Herman D. Lujan, Michael G. Dolence
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 02/26/1997
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 6.20h x 9.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780787903480
ISBN10: 0787903485
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Schools | Levels | Higher
- Education | Administration | General
- Business & Economics | Education

About the Author
DANIEL JAMES ROWLEY is professor of management in the College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado. HERMAN D. LUJAN is the president emeritus of the University of Northern Colorado and is university distinguished professor of business and public policy. MICHAEL G. DOLENCE is president of Michael G. Dolence and Associates. Formerly he served as strategic planning administrator for the California State University, Los Angeles, and as director of research, planning and policy analysis at the Commission on IndepAndent Colleges and Universities in New York.