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Funding the future : preparing university leaders to navigate impending change / Stephen Beers, Paul Blezien, Tim Herrmann, Editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abilene, Texas : Abilene Christian University Press, [2012]Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0891127844
  • 9780891127840
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.4/3378 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2342 .F83 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : defining the task -- The voice of experience -- Four important concepts that impact higher educational finances -- A primer on private higher education finances -- Collaborative discernment -- Implementing an institutional mission while navigating change -- Making difficult decisions gracefully -- Caring for the culture-protecting the people -- Critical challenges, critical times -- Epilogue.
Summary: "The fall of 2008 brought a sea change in the country and in higher education. Assumptions held for years seemed no longer to be valid. -- Funding the Future: Preparing University Leaders to Navigate the Coming Change has been assembled by seasoned and wise voices from across the higher education landscape for "such a time as this." Relevant leaders must understand institutional finances, accounting rules, and decision-making models now more than ever. There is very little room for fiscal error, particularly for the majority of universities that rely on tuition dollars to sustain their budgets."-- Foreword
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)514395

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : defining the task -- The voice of experience -- Four important concepts that impact higher educational finances -- A primer on private higher education finances -- Collaborative discernment -- Implementing an institutional mission while navigating change -- Making difficult decisions gracefully -- Caring for the culture-protecting the people -- Critical challenges, critical times -- Epilogue.

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"The fall of 2008 brought a sea change in the country and in higher education. Assumptions held for years seemed no longer to be valid. -- Funding the Future: Preparing University Leaders to Navigate the Coming Change has been assembled by seasoned and wise voices from across the higher education landscape for "such a time as this." Relevant leaders must understand institutional finances, accounting rules, and decision-making models now more than ever. There is very little room for fiscal error, particularly for the majority of universities that rely on tuition dollars to sustain their budgets."-- Foreword