Campus with Purpose : Building a Mission-Driven Campus / Stephen Lehmkuhle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The interview -- Why does the new campus exist? -- Building a campus with purpose : managing the past and the future -- Structure with purpose -- Buildings versus space -- Building and flying the plane at the same time -- What I learned about students and faculty -- Leading by purpose in higher education -- Closing comments -- Epilogue : purpose and innovation.

"When Stephen Lehmkuhle became the chancellor of the brand new University of Minnesota-Rochester campus, he had to start from scratch. He did not inherit a legacy mission that established what the campus did and how to do it; rather, he needed to find a way to rationalize the existence of the nascent campus. Lehmkuhle recognized that without a shared understanding of purpose the scope of a new campus expands at an unsustainable rate as it tries to be all things to all people, and so his first act was to decide on the driving purpose of the campus. He then used this purpose to make decisions about institutional design, scope, programs, and campus activities. Through personal and engaging anecdotes about his experience as the inaugural chancellor at the University of Minnesota-Rochester, Lehmkuhle describes how higher education leaders can focus on campus purpose to create new and fresh ways to think about many elements of campus operation and function, and how leaders can protect the campus's purpose from the pervasive higher education culture that is hardened by history and habit"-- Provided by publisher

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