Introduction to Management Systems

The static credit hour system and the fixed academic calendar that it imposes on the management of course schedules are no longer adequate to meet the curricular needs of individual students, administrators, and faculty in the postindustrial era. In this chapter, we will revisit the idea of structure, as it was defined by Moore, and we suggest that administrative structure in a university is a measure of an institution’s responsiveness to a learner’s individual needs in establishing academic objectives and lifelong goals. This is to formalize the dynamic relationship of each learner with the university administration in the TTD. New developments in managing universities that have an impact on management systems are presented in this section.