TY - BOOK AU - Logue,Alexandra W. TI - Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York T2 - The William G. Bowen Series SN - 9780691169941 PY - 2017///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - EDUCATION / Higher KW - bisacsh KW - Academic degree KW - Academic freedom KW - Academic standards KW - Academic tenure KW - Academic term KW - Academic year KW - Accreditation KW - Advanced Placement KW - Adviser KW - Alumnus KW - American Association of University Professors KW - Associate degree KW - Associate professor KW - Association of American Colleges and Universities KW - Attendance KW - Bachelor's degree KW - Baruch College KW - Borough of Manhattan Community College KW - Brooklyn College KW - Career KW - Central administration KW - Chancellor (education) KW - City University of New York KW - Clark Kerr KW - Collective bargaining KW - College of Staten Island KW - Common Core State Standards Initiative KW - Community college KW - Core Curriculum (Columbia College) KW - Course credit KW - Curriculum KW - Director of communications KW - Doctor of Philosophy KW - Education Credit KW - Education policy KW - Education reform KW - Education KW - Employment KW - Faculty (academic staff) KW - First language KW - Freshman KW - General counsel KW - Governance KW - Grading (education) KW - Graduation KW - Guideline KW - Guttman Community College KW - Higher education KW - Hunter College KW - Implementation KW - Inside Higher Ed KW - Institution KW - Institutional research KW - JSTOR KW - John Jay College of Criminal Justice KW - KC Johnson KW - Kingsborough Community College KW - Learning KW - Lehman College KW - Letter to the editor KW - Liberal arts education KW - Matthew Goldstein KW - Middle States Commission on Higher Education KW - New York State Education Department KW - Of Education KW - Pell Grant KW - Percentage KW - Plaintiff KW - President of Harvard University KW - Princeton University Press KW - Professional school KW - Professional studies KW - Professor KW - Professors in the United States KW - Public university KW - Queensborough Community College KW - Requirement KW - Scholarship KW - Science education KW - Secondary education KW - State University of New York KW - State school KW - Student affairs KW - Student KW - Students' union KW - Supervisor KW - Technology KW - The Chronicle of Higher Education KW - The New York Times KW - Transfer credit KW - Tuition payments KW - Undergraduate education KW - University System of Georgia KW - University of California KW - University of Chicago KW - University system KW - University KW - Voting KW - Writing KW - Year N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Publisher’s Note --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Chronology --; Introduction: Starting the Journey --; Chapter 1. Passing the Pathways Resolution: June 27, 2011 --; Chapter 2. Antecedents: 1961 to Summer 2010 --; Chapter 3. Formulating the Resolution: October 2010 through January 2011 --; Chapter 4. The True Colors of Spring 2011: Shaping the Final Resolution --; Chapter 5. Models of Governance in June 2011: Rwanda, a CAPPR Meeting, and a Public Hearing --; Chapter 6. A Core Foundation: July 2011 through December 2011 --; Chapter 7. The Devil Is in the Details: January 2012 through August 2012 --; Chapter 8. English Studies: September 2012 through December 2012 --; Chapter 9. Sprinting and Stretching for the Finish Line: January 2013 through June 2013 --; Chapter 10. Transitions: July 2013 through December 2013 --; Chapter 11. Legal Matters: June 2011 through June 2015 --; Chapter 12. What Does It All Mean? Changing Course with Pathways --; Epilogue: Reaching the End of the Path --; Notes --; Names Index --; Subject Index; restricted access N2 - A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest universityChange is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controversial reform initiative known as Pathways. The program aimed to facilitate the transfer of credits among the university’s nineteen constituent colleges in order to improve graduation rates—a long-recognized problem for public universities such as CUNY. Hotly debated, Pathways met with vociferous resistance from many faculty members, drew the attention of local and national media, and resulted in lengthy legal action. In Pathways to Reform, Logue, the figure at the center of the maelstrom, blends vivid personal narrative with an objective perspective to tell how this hard-fought plan was successfully implemented at the third-largest university in the United States.Logue vividly illustrates why change does or does not take place in higher education, and the professional and personal tolls exacted. Looking through the lens of the Pathways program and factoring in key players, she analyzes how governance structures and conflicting interests, along with other institutional factors, impede change—which, Logue shows, is all too rare, slow, and costly. In this environment, she argues, it is shared governance, combined with a strong, central decision-making authority, that best facilitates necessary reform. Logue presents a compelling investigation of not only transfer policy but also power dynamics and university leadership.Shedding light on the inner workings of one of the most important public institutions in the nation, Pathways to Reform provides the first full account of how, despite opposition, a complex higher education initiative was realized.All net royalties received by the author from sales of this book will be donated to The City University of New York to support undergraduate student financial aid UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888337?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888337 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400888337/original ER -