A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit
transfer program at the nation's third-largest university Change is
notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of
higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra
Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New
York, led a controversial reform initiative known as Pathways. The
program aimed to facilitate the transfer of credits among the
university's nineteen constituent colleges in order to improve
graduation rates--a long-recognized problem for public universities
such as CUNY. Hotly debated, Pathways met with vociferous
resistance from many faculty members, drew the attention of local
and national media, and resulted in lengthy legal action. In
Pathways to Reform, Logue, the figure at the center of the
maelstrom, blends vivid personal narrative with an objective
perspective to tell how this hard-fought plan was successfully
implemented at the third-largest university in the United States.
Logue vividly illustrates why change does or does not take place in
higher education, and the professional and personal tolls exacted.
Looking through the lens of the Pathways program and factoring in
key players, she analyzes how governance structures and conflicting
interests, along with other institutional factors, impede
change--which, Logue shows, is all too rare, slow, and costly. In
this environment, she argues, it is shared governance, combined
with a strong, central decision-making authority, that best
facilitates necessary reform. Logue presents a compelling
investigation of not only transfer policy but also power dynamics
and university leadership. Shedding light on the inner workings of
one of the most important public institutions in the nation,
Pathways to Reform provides the first full account of how, despite
opposition, a complex higher education initiative was realized. All
net royalties received by the author from sales of this book will
be donated to The City University of New York to support
undergraduate student financial aid.
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