Beyond Restructuring: Building a University for the 21st Century. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.

Autor/in	Goldsmith, Sharon S.
Titel	Beyond Restructuring: Building a University for the 21st Century. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
Quelle	(1995), (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adoption (Ideas); College Administration; Educational Change; Educational Innovation; Educationally Disadvantaged; Ethnography; Futures (of Society); Higher Education; Institutional Mission; Institutional Research; Multicultural Education; Organizational Change; Organizational Climate; Organizational Development; Organizational Objectives; Participative Decision Making; Planning; Resistance to Change; School Organization; State Universities; Theory Practice Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideas; Ideenfindung; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Bildungsreform; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Ethnografie; Future; Society; Zukunft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Institutionelle Forschung; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Organisationswandel; Organisationsklima; Organisationsentwicklung; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; School organisation; Schulorganisation; Staatliche Universität; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung
Abstract	This ethnographic study of the creation of a new public university, California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), highlighted the struggle of the founders to build a collective identity based on a distinctive vision for the 21st century. The original plan envisioned a model pluralistic academic community with a culture of innovation that included a mission to serve historically under-educated and low income populations, a commitment to multi-lingual and multi-cultural values, instructional innovation, and collaborative administration. Using participant observation, formal and informal interviewing, and content analysis, the study began with systematic collection of documents related to the founding of CSUMB in March of 1993, attendance at meetings at the planning office in 1993 and 1994, and appointment of the researcher to a post at CSUMB as visiting scholar. The focus of data collection and analysis was on how people transformed values into organizational realities. Analysis of the process unfolding at CSUMB found that the process resembled a dramatic play: first a period devoted to setting the stage, next a prologue, then Act 1 as key players and the growing cast of characters share the excitement of coming together for opening in the fall of 1995, followed by Act 2 and a sense of fragmentation as traditional patterns confront the CSUMB vision of non-hierarchical organization. The process of culture formation at CSUMB appeared to be a dynamic and fluid struggle to identify, acknowledge, define, and solve problems. An appendix contains a copy of the CSUMB vision statement. (Contains 65 references.) (JB)
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