“Why Mergers are (Quietly) Increasing Among Colleges and Universities: A Review of the Pros and Cons”, by Susan Resneck Pierce, a chapter in “Consolidating Colleges and Merging—Universities New Strategies for Higher Education”, James Martin and...
Originally published: Mission Possible: Mission-based Decisions Can Offer Immediate and Dramatic Benefits, Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, March 2001 Many colleges and universities today are facing new external pressures, leading some to alter their...
Originally published: Change and Its Consequences, published in Liberal Education, Fall 2000 Most college administrators are being bombarded with reports urging change and describing how to effect it. At the same time, colleges and universities are faced with new...
Originally published: Charting the Future: Puget Sound’s Next Decade, February 1999 The Board of Trustees has asked me to define my sense of what our institutional goals should be for the coming decade. I have welcomed the exercise because it has served to clarify my...
Originally published: The Importance of Mission, The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa), Spring 1996 In the fall of 1993 the University of Puget Sound Board of Trustees accepted an offer from Seattle University to assume sponsorship of the Puget Sound School of Law....
