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Revised and updated, the new edition of Tenure, Discrimination and the Courts provides a lucid overview of the case law involving charges of discrimination made by faculty members against institutions of higher learning. For those whose academic jobs may be at risk and for those who may be asked to decide the professional fate of their colleagues, this book is an essential resource.
Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, Cuban shows how universities have organizationally and politically subordinated teaching to research for over one hundred years. He explains how university reforms, decade after decade, not only failed to dislodge the primacy of research but actually served to strengthen it. He examines the academic work of research and teaching to determine how each has influenced university structures and processes, including curricular reform. Can the dilemma of scholars vs. teachers ever be fully reconciled? This fascinating historical journey is a must read for all university administrators, faculty, researchers, and anyone concerned with educational reform.
The business activities in organizations today are influenced largely by the decisions taken by their managers-whether it is at lower level, middle level, or top-level. They are responsible for getting things done through people in formally organized groups, the success of which depends upon the application of the principles of management. Hence, it is imperative for the practicing managers as well as the managers to be to get acquainted with the essentials of management. Primarily intended for the undergraduate engineering students, this book also serves the needs of management students at postgraduate and diploma levels. This comprehensive and well-organized book provides a clear insight into the principles and concepts of management, its impact on productivity, and the new dimensions arising out due to the rapid advancements in information technology. The text also covers various modern concepts like outsourcing e-business, e-commerce, ERP, CRM, TQM etc.
An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers -- and the colonization of Taiwan itself -- exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and political identities. This carefully researched work of fiction draws upon Li's own experiences and family history, as well as oral and written histories of the...
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