The Managerial Revolution in Higher Education

Abstract

This book should be on the required reading list for all educational administrators and, in addition, for faculty members who have expressed interest and opinions on the topic of administration. Rourke and Brooks set forth clearly a number of the major problems faced by universities in an unparalleled period of expansion in numbers of students, knowledge, and diversification of that knowledge. Unfortunately the authors do not clearly distinguish the role of research investigator in administration from that of advisor. Arguments for procedures or changes are interwoven with the research results. While the reader may be quite ready to accept the research as needed and valid, some of the global recommendations set forth are subject to severe question since they deal primarily with supportive functions of the university while proportionately neglecting its central objectives. The study would have been strengthened by a thorough review of the way in which faculty are