Pathways to Reform Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York

Alexandra W. Logue, "Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York "
English | ISBN: 0691169942 | 2017 | 416 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation’s third-largest university

Change is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controversial reform initiative known as Pathways. The program aimed to facilitate the transfer of credits among the university’s nineteen constituent colleges in order to improve graduation rates―a long-recognized problem for public universities such as CUNY. Hotly debated, Pathways met with vociferous resistance from many faculty members, drew the attention of local and national media, and resulted in lengthy legal action. In
Read more