Musing on Post-Secondary Education
This book by William Massey, former VP at Stanford is a bit of a difficult read. It appears to be a compilation of thoughts that the author has had over the years on how universities need to managed.
If starts of with a thoughtful chapter on what it means to be a not-for-profit university and why that is vitally important. The for-profit rule is that an enterprise expands until –
I have just finished reading Volume 46 of the Emerald series “Research in the Sociology of Organizations”. This 500 page tome relates some 15 different academic perspectives on the pressures on the European and US university systems. It is a heavy but very well written analysis.
I must admit to reading this book with some trepidation. As a university administrator (and male) I expected to come out of this read feeling pretty bad about myself. As it turned out this was only partially true. Continue reading “The Slow Professor”