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The rapidly growing trend of higher education programs specially tailored for managers of nonprofit agencies is no more than fifteen years old, but now these programs include thousands of students at nearly one hundred universities and colleges worldwide. Business management education developed at the turn of the century, and public management began education in the 1930s; now nonprofit management education is emerging in a comparable way. This book charts the growth of and addresses the major issues and controversies surrounding this new field.
The collection includes both academics and practitioners reporting their research findings and experiences with nonprofit management education. Major issues include the growth of nonprofit management as an academic field, the academic and political problems facing the field, curricular and instructional issues including new technologies such as distance learning, and the debate over whether such programs should be housed in schools of business, public administration, or in their own separate programs. The book also explores ways and means by which nonprofit management education can most effectively serve nonprofit practitioners.
List of contents
Preface
Nonprofit Management Education: History, Current Issues, Future by Michael O'Neill
Nonprofit Management Education: Current Offerings and Practices in University-Based Programs by Naomi B. Wish and Roseanne M. Mirabella
Dilemmas Facing Nonprofit Management Education: The Australian Example by Mark Lyons
Opening up Nonprofit Management Development: Lessons from the Open University's Voluntary Sector Management Programme Management by Chris Cornforth, Rob Paton, and Julian Batsleer
Management Education for the Irish Voluntary Sector: First Steps in Program Design by Gemma Donnely Cox and Geoffrey MacKechnie
Nonprofit Management Education: Recommendations Drawn from Three Stakeholder Groups by Mary Tschirhart
Nonprofit Undergraduate Education: Delivery Models for Curricula within the American Humanics Program by Norman A. Dolch, et al.
Higher Education in Volunteer Administration: Exploring and Critiquing the State of the Art by Jeffrey L. Brudney and Gretchen E. Stringer
Building for Nonprofit Sector Knowledge Base: Can Academic Centers and Management Support Organizations Come Together? by Rick Smith
Games Universities Play: An Analysis of the Institutional Contexts of Centers for Nonprofit Study by Dennis R. Young
Nonprofit Management Education: A Field Whose Time Has Passed? by Lester M. Salamon
References
Index
About the author
Kathleen Fletcher, Michael O'Neill Professor
