Strategic Plan

Suggested Readings

Higher Education and Strategic Planning
Publications
  

  1. A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice, William M. Sullivan, Matthew S. Rosin, Lee S. Shulman, and Gary D. Fenstermacher, 2008
  2. Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities: From Tactics to Strategy, Richard L. Alfred, 2006 Written in cooperation with ACE
  3. American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, Philip G. Altbach, Robert O. Berdahl, Patricia J. Gumport Editors, 2005 
  4. A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin, 2004 
  5. Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education, Mary J. Allen, 2004 
  6. Universities in the Marketplace, Derek Bok, 2003 
  7. A Time for Boldness: A Story of Institutional Change, Nancy L. Zimpher and Stephen L. Percy, 2002 
  8. Organization and Governance in Higher Education, ASHE & M. Christopher Brown, 2000 
  9. Good to Great, Jim Collins, 2001 
  10. In Defense of American Higher Education, Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, and (SUNY's own) D. Bruce Johnstone Editors, 2001 
  11. Universities and their Leadership, William G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro Editors, 1998 
  12. Rethinking America, Hendick Smith, 1995 
  13. Redesigning Education, Kenneth G. Wilson and Bennett Daviss, 1994 
  14. Inside American Education, the Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas, Thomas Sowell, 1993 
  15. The University, An Owner's Manual, Henry Rosovsky, 1990 
  16. Strategic Leadership for Schools, Creating and Sustaining Productive Change, John J. Muriel, 1989 
  17. Higher Learning, Derek Bok, 1986 
  18. College, the Undergraduate Experience in America, Ernest Boyer, 1987 
  19. Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper, Daniel James Rowley, Herman D. Lujan, Michael G. Dolence, 1994 
  20. Academic Strategy, George Keller, 1983

Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities

Returning to Our Roots:  Executive Summaries of the Reports of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities, January 2001

Renewing the Covenant:  Learning, Discovery, and Engagement in a New Age and Different World, March 2000

Returning to Our Roots:  Toward a Coherent Campus Culture, January 2000

Returning to Our Roots:  A Learning Society, September 1999

Returning to Our Roots:  The Engaged Institution, February 1999

Returning to Our Roots:  Student Access, May 1998

Returning to Our Roots:  The Student Experience, April 1997                                                                   Top

Related to SUNY's different sectors:

The Research Universities & Their Patrons, Robert Rosenzweig, 1982

Liberal Arts Colleges, David Breneman, 1994 

The American Community College, Arthur M. Cohen, Florence B. Brawer, Aug. 2008, 5th edition

Ernest Boyer (former SUNY Chancellor, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and the President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)

Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice, 1996

The Basic School: A Community for Learning, 1995

The Academic Profession: An International Perspective, 1994

Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, 1990

Ready to Learn: A Mandate for the Nation, 1991

College: The Undergraduate Experience in America, 1987

Higher Learning in the Nation's Service, 1981

A Quest for Common Learning: The Aims of General Education, 1981

 Warren Bennis (former SUNY Buffalo provost and president of the University of Cincinnati).

Geeks and Geezers, 2002

Managing the Dream, 2000

Co-Leaders, 1999

Organizing Genius, 1997

An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change, 1993

On Becoming a Leader, 1989

Leaders,1986

The Leaning Ivory Tower, 1973

The Unconscious Conspiracy: Why Leaders Can't Lead, 1976

 Publications

Inside Higher Ed

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Education Week

Trusteeship Magazine (published by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges) 

The Presidency (published by the American Council on Education)                                                           Top

 

Last Update - 2/5/10