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Leadership matters more than ever in this turbulent moment in
American higher education. During these unprecedented times,
glaring internal inefficiencies, communication breakdowns, and an
overriding sense of cultural inertia on many campuses are too often
set against a backdrop of changing consumer preferences, high
sticker prices, declining demand, massive tuition discounting,
aging infrastructure, technological and pedagogical alternatives,
and political pressure. Strategic leadership in such a complex
environment needs to be exercised in nuanced ways that differ from
those embraced by corporate cultures. In Leadership Matters, W.
Joseph King and Brian C. Mitchell argue that the success of higher
education institutions depends on strategic leaders who can utilize
the strengths of their institutions and leaders to balance internal
pressures, shifting demographics, global education needs, and
workforce preparation demands beyond the college gates. Drawing on
their extensive experience, the authors guide senior
administration, trustees, and presidents on how to lead during
immense financial, demographic, and social challenges. King and
Mitchell believe that, to survive, colleges must be well
run-flexible, effective, and forward thinking. The authors begin
with a fundamental premise-that colleges and universities must
evolve and adapt by modernizing their practices, monetizing their
assets, focusing on core educational strategies, and linking
explicitly to the modern world. Discussing a broad range of
leadership positions, including presidents, provosts, and board
chairs, Leadership Matters touches on strategic planning,
management and operations, stakeholder relations, campus and
community, accreditation and athletic conferences, and much more.
The authors offer an optimistic assessment based upon frank and
stark conclusions about what colleges must do-and must not do-to
remain relevant in the coming decades.
During the early twentieth century, Vietnam was a cosmopolitan
country, influenced not only by its Chinese and Khmer neighbors,
but also by the French and other Europeans. This fascinating book
is among the first in English to document the output of Vietnamese
craftspeople and manufacturers from this period. Lacquer work,
carvings, textiles, and ceramics are among the wonderful crafts
illustrated in 302 color photographs. These are placed in their
cultural context with a detailed text and insights from the author,
who has lived in the region for many years. Collectors of Southeast
Asian artifacts finally have a reference to help identify
Vietnamese craft items, their meaning in the Vietnamese culture,
and their current values.
Adaptive Administration: Practice Strategies for Dealing with
Constant Change in Public Administration and Policy interprets the
critical issues facing the field of public administration today and
describes how new approaches to theory and practice have the
potential to redesign the field. It will provide you with new
strategies for understanding and adapting to the constant change
taking place today in public administration and policy. Features:
Supports faculty in presenting in their classes new approaches to
the field Helps students better understand the concepts and
relevance of the field they are studying Provides a means for
practitioners to apply more effective approaches to real-world
problem solving Enables theory developers to explore new avenues of
study Assists professionals from many different fields in better
understanding the significance and value of public administration
This book develops a unified approach to theory and practice in the
field. A new approach is taken to theory development based on
applying recent studies by several authors in the areas of
qualitative analysis and typologies. As illustrated throughout,
many of the existing limited-scope theories in public
administration may be extended and generalized for use in today's
environment by the studies explored in this volume. More
applications of the strategies in this book may be found in the
free Snapshot "Designing Public Programs That Work" at
https://www.routledge.com/posts/10703.
Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of
International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict
analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the
methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes
including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving
insoluble disputes.
Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of
International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict
analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the
methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes
including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving
insoluble disputes.
This book documents a contingent valuation study for a significant
environmental good: preventing the likely injuries from oil spills
on the coast of Central California. It functions as a 'how-to'
guide by documenting design, administration, and analysis of such
studies, to reduce the long lead time which characterizes most
economic damage assessments. The book includes a CD-ROM containing
a wealth of additional material: data, questionnaires, transcripts
and more.
Why would a famously centralized Latin American state begin to
re-distribute political power to cities and towns? In the Dominican
Republic in the years between 1994 and 2008, a pro-municipal social
alliance pressed for decentralization and politicians yielded,
seeking power in three-party competition. Reformers utilized the
central dynamics of a patrimonial system in order to reform it as
rival parties and factions formed a series of shifting temporary
alliances on municipal issues. Based on contemporary files and more
than 60 interviews with participants, this study examines how
electoral, financial, and administrative power has been dispersed.
Non-concurrent local elections made municipal political leaders
more autonomous; new laws multiplied central revenue-sharing
twelve-fold; the centralist Ministry of Municipalities was greatly
weakened; and participatory budgeting became mandatory nation-wide.
The analysis also documents the continuing power of centralist
political forces and suggests innovative strategies to maintain
decentralizing momentum.
We are faced with the twin urgent challenges of delivering a low
carbon and secure energy system. The last few years have seen
Britain moving from being a net exporter to a net importer of
energy. The threat of climate change has led to the slow but
inexorable inclusion of environmental concerns in mainstream energy
policy. Against this backdrop, economic and political power around
the globe has altered, creating a complex, multipolar world. Rising
concerns about the long term availability and price of oil, gas and
uranium only add to the challenges facing Britain. This timely
volume brings together key researchers and practitioners from a
wide range of disciplines, including energy policy, international
relations and supply chains, to explore the practical policy
options in addressing energy security in Britain.
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Principles of Security and Trust - Second International Conference, POST 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013, Proceedings (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
David Basin, John C. Mitchell
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST
2013, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and
Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, in Rome, Italy, in March 2013.
The 14 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 59 submissions. They deal with the theoretical and
foundational aspects of security and trust such as new theoretical
results, practical applications of existing foundational ideas, and
innovative theoretical approaches stimulated by pressing practical
problems.
Researchers and practitioners explore the effect of evolving global
economic and political powers on energy security within the UK and
puts forward practical options for moving towards a more energy
secure system over both the short and long terms.
In recent years, IT application scenarios have evolved in very
innovative ways. Highly distributed networks have now become a
common platform for large-scale distributed programming, high
bandwidth communications are inexpensive and widespread, and most
of our work tools are equipped with processors enabling us to
perform a multitude of tasks. In addition, mobile computing
(referring specifically to wireless devices and, more broadly, to
dynamically configured systems) has made it possible to exploit
interaction in novel ways. To harness the flexibility and power of
these rapidly evolving, interactive systems, there is need of
radically new foundational ideas and principles; there is need to
develop the theoretical foundations required to design these
systems and to cope with the many complex issues involved in their
construction; and there is need to develop effective principles for
building and analyzing such systems.
Reflecting the diverse and wide spectrum of topics and interests
within the theoretical computer science community, Exploring New
Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics, is presented in two distinct
but interrelated tracks:
-Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation,
-Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification.
Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics contains 46
original and significant contributions addressing these
foundational questions, as well as 4 papers by outstanding invited
speakers. These papers were presented at the 3rd IFIP International
Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS 2004), which was
held in conjunction with the 18th World Computer Congress in
Toulouse, France in August 2004 and sponsored by the International
Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
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Trust Management II - Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, June 18-20, 2008, Trondheim, Norway (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Yucel Karabulut, John C. Mitchell, Peter Herrmann, Christian Damsgaard Jensen
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This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint
iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and
Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008.
IFIPTM 2008 provides a truly global platform for the reporting of
research, development, policy and practice in the interdependent
areas of Privacy, Security, and Trust. Following the traditions
inherited from the highly successful iTrust and PST conference
series, IFIPTM 2008 focuses on trust, privacy and security from
multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is an arena for
discussion about re levant problems from both research and practice
in the areas of academia, busi ness, and government. IFIPTM 2008 is
an open IFIP conference, which only accepts contributed pa pers, so
all papers in these proceedings have passed strict peer review. The
pro gram of the conference features both theoretical research
papers and reports of real world case studies. IFIPTM 2008 received
62 submissions. The program commit tee selected 22 papers for
presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. In addi tion, the
program and the proceedings include 3 demo descriptions. The
highlights of IFIPTM 2008 include invited talks and tutorials by
industri al and academic experts in the fields of trust management,
privacy and security, including Jon Bing and Michael Steiner.
How can colleges stay relevant in the twenty-first century?
Residential colleges are the foundation on which US higher
education is based. These institutions possess storied traditions
fondly cherished by students, alumni, and faculty. There is no
denying, however, that all colleges today struggle with changing
consumer preferences, high sticker prices, and aging
infrastructure. Technological and pedagogical alternatives-not to
mention growing political pressure-present complex challenges. What
can colleges and smaller universities do to stay relevant in
today's educational and economic climate? In their concise guide,
How to Run a College, Brian C. Mitchell and W. Joseph King analyze
how colleges operate. Widely experienced as trustees,
administrators, and faculty, they understand that colleges must
update their practices, monetize their assets, and focus on core
educational strategies in order to build strong institutions.
Mitchell and King offer a frank yet optimistic vision for how
colleges can change without losing their fundamental strengths. To
survive and become sustainable, they must be centers of dynamic
learning, as well as economic engines able to power regional,
state, and national economies. Rejecting the notion that American
colleges are holdovers from a bygone time, How to Run a College
shows instead that they are centers of experimentation and
innovation that heavily influence higher education not only in the
United States but also worldwide.
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Trust Management II - Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, June 18-20, 2008, Trondheim, Norway (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Yucel Karabulut, John C. Mitchell, Peter Herrmann, Christian Damsgaard Jensen
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This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint
iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and
Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008.
IFIPTM 2008 provides a truly global platform for the reporting of
research, development, policy and practice in the interdependent
areas of Privacy, Security, and Trust. Following the traditions
inherited from the highly successful iTrust and PST conference
series, IFIPTM 2008 focuses on trust, privacy and security from
multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is an arena for
discussion about re levant problems from both research and practice
in the areas of academia, busi ness, and government. IFIPTM 2008 is
an open IFIP conference, which only accepts contributed pa pers, so
all papers in these proceedings have passed strict peer review. The
pro gram of the conference features both theoretical research
papers and reports of real world case studies. IFIPTM 2008 received
62 submissions. The program commit tee selected 22 papers for
presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. In addi tion, the
program and the proceedings include 3 demo descriptions. The
highlights of IFIPTM 2008 include invited talks and tutorials by
industri al and academic experts in the fields of trust management,
privacy and security, including Jon Bing and Michael Steiner.
Mitchell analyses the extent to which the current political
paradigm is capable of meeting the challenges of climate change.
She argues that unless there are fundamental changes to
policy-making, it is unlikely that energy policies will be able to
deliver sufficient change to enable a move to a sustainable energy
economy.
This book analyzes the extent to which the current political
paradigm is capable of meeting the challenges of climate change.
Placing the UK in comparative perspective, leading energy expert
Catherine Mitchell argues for a new way of approaching policy
towards energy and sustainability
This volume describes what is arguably the first and only valuation
study to meet in full the reference study standards set by NOAA's
Blue Ribbon Panel on Contingent Valuation. This book documents a
contingent valuation study for a generic environmental good:
preventing the likely injuries from oil spills on the coast of
Central California. It provides a wealth of materials which will
reduce the long lead time which characterizes most economic damage
assessments. This is achieved by so richly documenting the design,
administration, and analysis of such studies as to be effectively a
'how-to' guide for undertaking state-of-the-art contingent
valuation studies. The book is supported by a CD-ROM containing a
wealth of additional material, including data, questionnaires, and
transcripts. Together, they constitute a unique and vital
contribution to the literature concerning the valuation of
non-market preferences.
This work is an analysis of the whole frontier between religion and the environment. It deals in turn with their interactions and the effects of each on the other in the major world religions. It considers the religious impact on human uses of time, space, materials, transport, foods, and the environmental effects of religious influence on major topics such as population pressures, morbidity, mortality, marital arrangements, contraception, the treatment of animals, and environmental management.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, held at
Tohoku University, Japan in April 1994. This top-level
international symposium on theoretical computer science is devoted
to theoretical aspects of programming, programming languages and
system, and parallel and distributed computation. The papers in the
volume are grouped into sessions on: lambda calculus and
programming; automated deduction; functional programming; objects
and assignments; concurrency; term rewriting and process
equivalence; type theory and programming; algebra, categories and
linear logic; and subtyping, intersection and union types. The
volume also includes seven invited talks and two open lectures.
Law and Society in England 1750-1950 is an indispensable text for
those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the
foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated
edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal
and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power
themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they
were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the
legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical
account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an
engaging study of the formation of contemporary social,
administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that
was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight
chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry;
Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and
Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and
legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of
English law, political science, and social history.
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