THE FOUR CULTURES OF THE ACADEMY by William H. Bergquist, Kenneth Pawlak ( 9780787995195 )

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THE FOUR CULTURES OF THE ACADEMY

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William H. Bergquist, Kenneth Pawlak

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0787995193

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JOHN WILEY & SONS INC

Pub. date:

19 October, 2007

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Wiley Desktop Editions

Pages:

304

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This book provides a valuable overview of higher education from a multi-dimensional perspective. The authors argue that different parts of an academic institution constitute six different "cultures.

Synopsis:

In The Four Cultures of the Academy, William H. Bergquist identified four different, yet interrelated, cultures found in North American higher education: collegial, managerial, developmental, and advocacy. In this new and expanded edition of that classic work, Bergquist and coauthor Kenneth Pawlak propose that there are additional external influences in our global culture that are pressing upon the academic institution, forcing it to alter the way it goes about its business. Two new cultures are now emerging in the academic institution as a result of these global, external forces: the virtual culture, prompted by the technological and social forces that have emerged over the past twenty years, and the tangible culture, which values its roots, community, and physical location and has only recently been evident as a separate culture partly in response to emergence of the virtual culture. These two cultures interact with the previous four, creating new dynamics.

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Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

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