Term: Fall, 1997
Time: 1:30-4:10pm
Wednesday
Place: 5P57 Forbes Quadrangle
Instructor: James
Mauch
Telephone: 648-7104
This course is designed to examine the structure and management of institutions of
higher education and to relate these structures to human behavior in organizations, to
institutional missions, traditions, values, and history, and to general theories of
organization and management. Specific topics include governance, leadership, strategic
planning and resource allocation, and research and policy making in higher
education.
The knowledge and skills learned should be applicable to
institutions of higher education throughout the world. Thus, with prior approval this
course may be used for the Certificate in Latin American Studies, and the Certficate in
Russian and East European Studies, in which case the focus of the student's work will be
on a camparative analysis of some aspect of higher education in Latin America, or Russian
and East Europe.
This course is intended to provide the initial tools to understand and analyze the structure and administration of institutions of higher education, set within the context of generally applicable theories of organization and administration. Students should be able to:
mauch+@pitt.edu