Author Tom Anderes's New Book "The Politics of Public Higher Education" Provides Leaders with Concepts and Examples They can Apply in Their Everyday Decision-Making
Recent release "The Politics of Public Higher Education: Strategic Decisions Forged from Constituency Competition, Cooperation, and Compromise" from Page Publishing author Tom Anderes offers a clear picture of the interaction, both directly and indirectly, of various constituencies as they seek to advance their positions on the key issues that confront public higher education.
BELLA VISTA, Ark., Dec. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tom Anderes is a leader in public higher education with a thirty-eight-year career in positions such as the presidency in the Arizona Board of Regents; senior vice presidencies in Texas Tech University, the Oregon University System, the University of Wisconsin System, and the Connecticut Department of Higher Education; and being acting chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education. He has completed his new book "The Politics of Public Higher Education: Strategic Decisions Forged from Constituency Competition, Cooperation, and Compromise": the third in a series of works offering an experience-based perspective on leadership and policy-making in public colleges and universities.
Tom writes, "The Politics of Public Higher Education Strategic Decisions Forged from Constituency Competition, Cooperation, and Compromise" is the third in a set of three books that provides higher education leaders, faculty, and system and institutional planners a reality-based view of decision-making in higher education. The focus is on how issues and related problems are translated into strategic initiatives that become the basis for leadership solutions. How the decisions are arrived at is very much influenced by the constituencies within higher education such as faculty, staff, students, and institutional leaders and their interaction with those external to higher education, like a governor and legislators. The interactions are political. On one level, they represent the internal politics of higher education constituencies seeking to highlight their priorities, and on another level, they represent the external politics of elected officials and their representatives seeking support from the public. There is often substantial conflict and competition to gain advantages in funding or as an organizational priority. In this book, we assess the politics within and between the internal and external parties and how those politics should be defined within any strategic planning process.
The Strategic Decision-Making Model (SDMM) is applied to help identify and resolve problems. The model consists of six components that ensure that all constituencies are heard and that alternative solutions recognize the key variables necessary to guide a leader's final choices. The six model components are strategic thinking as an organizational mentality, maximizing the amounts and quality of data and information for comprehensive reporting, scanning the future globally, implementing comprehensive strategic planning, supporting transparency of process and decision-making, and using a framework to consistently assess all planning issues, strategies, and outcomes."
Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, Tom Anderes's informative book is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in the politics of planning, delivery, and consumption of public higher education.
Readers who wish to experience this thought-provoking work can purchase "The Politics of Public Higher Education: Strategic Decisions Forged from Constituency Competition, Cooperation, and Compromise" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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