The Shifting Frontiers of Academic Decision Making Responding to New Priorities, Following New Pathways

This edited volume provides higher education leaders with keen understanding of how colleges and universities can create and institutionalize legitimate and effective academic decision processes to address complex challenges. Peter Eckel and his contributing authors explore emerging challenges to academic governance and how colleges and universities are effectively adapting legitimate decision-making mechanisms to deal with them. The book moves academic decision making out of the typical discussion as a contested arena of stakeholder resonsibilities and in-fighting, and presents a series of distinct and unique chapters that illustrate how colleges and universities are creating and sustaining dynamic, effective decision-making processes.