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Degrees of Debt
Higher education funding and tuition and fee inflation are complicated matters that very few people understand well. Koch clarifies the central issues and provides plentiful data to support its key points.
Born, Not Made
Books, magazine articles, and educational programs on entrepreneurship are all based on the idea that anyone can be an entrepreneur—that entrepreneurs are made, not born. Well, maybe not. In a study of 234 CEOs funded by the Kauffman Foundation, James L. Fisher and James V. Koch came up with a surprising conclusion: Some individuals are simply more naturally fitted to become entrepreneurs than others. They are pre-wired. Because of heredity, some people are much more likely to become successful entrepreneurs or pursue entrepreneurial strategies within a corporate setting profitably. By recognizing that, this book will significantly improve corporate selection processes, strengthen entrepre...
The Entrepreneurial College President
If you wish to know what effective college presidents actually think and how they behave, this is the book for you. It is must reading for all who are interested in the American college presidency and leadership in general.
Runaway College Costs
What role have governing boards played in tuition and fee escalation at four-year public colleges and universities? In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price Index or median household income. This cost inflation has effectively closed the doors of higher education to many qualified students and contributed to a staggering $1.5 trillion in student debt. Additionally, the number of college enrollments in the United States actually declined for eight straight years between 2011 and 2019, as college student bodies became increasingly stratified on the basis of family incomes. Virtually every public co...
Presidential Leadership
Koch and Fisher have updated and expanded the latter's highly respected 1984 book, Power of the Presidency. In Presidential Leadership, the authors explore the transformational style of leadership in greater depth. This theory is based on a strong, charismatic university president who leads and transforms the university through the power of his or her own vision for the future. The provocative arguments offered throughout the book are based both on empirical studies and on the authors' personal experiences as university presidents. Chapters on total quality management, presidential spouses, and fund raising are new to this edition, as are 11 appendixes offering sample materials for conducting presidential searches.
The Impoverishment of the American College Student
Is the end in sight for college tuition hikes? Tuition and fees at public colleges and universities consistently have risen twice or even three times as fast as comparable increases in the Consumer Price Index in recent years. Since 2000 these costs have even grown 60 percent faster than health care costs. The results have been rapidly rising student debt (now $1.4 trillion nationally), rising delinquencies in debt repayment, and a dysfunctional stratification of public college student bodies on the basis of family incomes. This is a broken, unsustainable model for the majority of public colleges. Why has this occurred? The multiple causes include declining state support, the avaricious beha...
The Intentional Leader
Kenneth A. Shaw’s book is a unique combination of theoretical ideology and practical advice on the art and skill of leadership. He offers a concise definition of leadership as a process of persuasion and demonstrates how specific methods are applied to reach that goal. The book covers a wide range of topics such as self-awareness, conflict resolution, motivating others, decision making, communicating effectively, and group dynamics. Shaw’s work encompasses broader views of leadership including issues of diversity and ethics, international leadership, and women in leadership roles. He draws on his extraordinary personal experience to present concrete examples of leadership successes. This...
The Business of Sports
The book covers professional, Olympic and collegiate sports and each chapter has a fully developed introduction to explaine the relevance of the articles to be presented.
The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth, and Shareholder Value
Provides a behind-the-scenes look at Caterpillar's rise to global dominance in the construction equipment manufacturing industry, revealing the series of risky business decisions made by the company's management that launched its success.
The Moral University
The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectiveness of moral reasoning courses in the curriculum and the growth of leadership courses. The book deals with the myriad ways in which universities act positively toward their communities. It also examines the involvement of universities in national projects. Moreover, the Berubes examine how students and faculty are treated, especially in terms of gender bias. The book concludes on a positive note with a model moral university.
