Mergers in Higher Education: Lessons from Theory and Experience

by Daniel Lang and Julia Eastman

Around the world, organizations of all kinds are merging at a frenetic pace. In a comparative study of two Canadian higher education mergers - that of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with the University of Toronto in 1996, and that of the Technical University of Nova Scotia with Dalhousie University in 1997 - Julia Eastman and Daniel Lang examine why and how universities merge and why some mergers succeed while others fail. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802035256
• ISBN13: 9780802035257
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher