February 11, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
Nonprofit Management Education: U.S. and World Perspectives
Edited by Michael O’Neill and Kathleen Fletcher
In March 1996, the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management held a conference to discuss higher education’s role in the management of non-profit organizations.
This book reprints 10 papers presented at the conference, which drew 125 participants from 14 countries.
If the numbers of academic programs increase, “Non-profit management education … must face the question of whether to develop departments, schools, doctoral programs, tenured faculty positions, and other academic trappings that characterize stable professional education programs,” writes Mr. O’Neill, who is director of the institute. Ms. Fletcher is a doctoral student at the university.
The authors examine questions such as whether non-profit management even warrants its own place in academe, and issues such as the importance of volunteer-administration programs in management curricula.
Among the contributors are Mark Lyons, a professor at the University of Technology, in Sydney, Australia, who laments the lack of recognition from non-profit groups down under for Australian programs that teach non-profit management; Mary Tschirhart, a professor at Indiana University at Bloomington, who surveys managers of non-profit groups, faculty members, and students to assess the payoff of non-profit management instruction; and Lester M. Salamon, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, who advocates training both non-profit managers and public servants within the same program.
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation financed the book’s publication.
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, Conn. 06881-5007; (203) 226-3571 or (800) 225-5800; fax (203) 222-1502; World-Wide Web http://www.greenwood.com; 162 pages; $55; I.S.B.N. 0-275-96115-x.
