New Book: Institutional Failure in Higher Education

Higher education has faced a great number of challenges in the last few years that include, but are not limited to, financial woes, bad press, ethnic and gender conflicts, legal conflicts, student debt, demographic tests, technological transformations, and leadership fiascoes. These challenges have been further aggravated by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although other books have dealt with some of these issues, the authors take a longer view of the problems and contextualizes them into what they call “institutional failures.” Their basic premise is that there is a widespread dysfunction at both leadership and management levels in higher education. Despite all these challenges, most of these institutions have been able to survive because they have been isolated from society as a whole; yet, this same insularity has induced bad habits and carry on behaviors that are threatening their very existence. They illustrate these failures by using either well publicized cases and others we have had access to confidentially while providing solutions to those problems.

The book is available through Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L41BCYM