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The unique and controversial companion volume to Daniel Seymour's
On Q places Seymour's ideas and theories within the context of a
call to action. In a series of realistic case-study lessons, he
reveals how colleges and universities can dramatically improve
their performance by drawing upon the concepts found in systems
theory, quality management, and studies of organizational behavior.
Seymour's goal is to overcome the current reactive mind-set and
replace it with a proactive education environment where student
success is the main objective. Once Upon a Campus can be put to use
as an audit tool, as a guide for readers to identify problem areas
in their institutions, and as a planning resource in evaluating and
implementing overall performance improvement.
An era of accountability has swept over the higher education
landscape. Everyone it seems-legislatures, think tanks, newspapers,
magazines, books, and bloggers-wants to "hold colleges and
universities accountable." They are attaching strings to budgets;
producing reports that read like exposes; developing clever systems
to rank and sort us; and writing books and articles that describe
the end of college as we know it. According to them, we need to be
reformed, reimagined, and rebooted. Momentum changes the
conversation from how others are holding higher education
accountable to why colleges and universities need to embrace the
need to demonstrate their own responsibility. The responsibility
paradigm that emerges fundamentally shifts the dialogue from fixing
to preventing, from reacting to creating, from surviving to
thriving. To implement this new paradigm, the dynamics of virtuous
cycles are introduced and described. These upward spirals build on
their own successes and result in growing confidence-a sense of
vitality and resilience. The future of these institutions isn't the
result of outside pressure or reformers. The future is something
that can and should be created by those who take responsibility for
it.
An era of accountability has swept over the higher education
landscape. Everyone it seems-legislatures, think tanks, newspapers,
magazines, books, and bloggers-wants to "hold colleges and
universities accountable." They are attaching strings to budgets;
producing reports that read like exposes; developing clever systems
to rank and sort us; and writing books and articles that describe
the end of college as we know it. According to them, we need to be
reformed, reimagined, and rebooted. Momentum changes the
conversation from how others are holding higher education
accountable to why colleges and universities need to embrace the
need to demonstrate their own responsibility. The responsibility
paradigm that emerges fundamentally shifts the dialogue from fixing
to preventing, from reacting to creating, from surviving to
thriving. To implement this new paradigm, the dynamics of virtuous
cycles are introduced and described. These upward spirals build on
their own successes and result in growing confidence-a sense of
vitality and resilience. The future of these institutions isn't the
result of outside pressure or reformers. The future is something
that can and should be created by those who take responsibility for
it.
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