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This critique of modern academia is also a proposal for making campuses more effective -- that is, better at meeting the clients' or customers' needs. The author addresses the problems that many academic institutions have today in clinging to the practices and organization of the past. By outlining the many problems in organization that colleges and universities face today, the author hopes to reveal workable solutions.
The Chiaroscuro of Reform*
The Chiaroscuro of Reform*
Consequently: he who wants to have right and wrong,
Order without disorder,
Does not understand the principles
Of heaven and earth.
He does not know how
Things hang together.
One of the great revelations of the Renaissance was the interplay between light and dark in painting. The disposition of light and shade (chiaro = clear; oscuro = dark) enabled artists to contrast scenes of nature and society where the two were intermingled. Those of us involved in reengineering need to be postmodern chiaroscurists. Organizational life is filled with contrasts where the shade of one area heightens the coloring in another. All too often what academic managers have tried to do is create organizational palettes that blend colors into a coherent framework as if ...
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