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Ashworth, Kenneth Hayden was born on February 24, 1932 in Abilene, Texas, United States. Son of Harold Laverne and Mae Beatrice (Grote) Ashworth.
(Replete with practical advice for anyone considering a ca...)
Replete with practical advice for anyone considering a career in federal, state, or local government, Caught between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service conveys what life is really like in a public service job. The book is written as a series of lively, entertaining letters of advice from a sympathetic uncle to a niece or nephew embarking on a government career. Kenneth Ashworth draws on more than forty years of public sector experience to provide advice on the daily challenges that future public servants can expect to face: working with politicians, bureaucracy, and the press; dealing with unpleasant and difficult people; leading supervisors as well as subordinates; and maintaining high ethical standards. Ashworth relates anecdotes from his jobs in Texas, California, and Washington, D.C., that illustrate with humor and wit fundamental concepts of public administration. Be prepared, says Ashworth, to encounter all sorts of unexpected situations, from the hostile to the bizarre, from the intimidating to the outrageous. He shows that in the confrontational world of public policymaking and program implementation, a successful career demands disciplined, informed thought, intellectual and personal growth, and broad reading. He demonstrates how, despite the inevitable inefficiencies of a democratic society, those working to shape policy in large organizations can nonetheless effect significant change-and even have fun along the way. The book will interest students and teachers of public administration, public affairs, policy development, leadership, or higher education administration. Ashworth's advice will also appeal to anyone who has ever been caught in a tight spot while working in government service.
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( A candid and often humorous discussion between Hackerma...)
A candid and often humorous discussion between Hackerman and Ashworth on the problems scientists and society will face with reductions in government financial support for research, or with restrictive government directives. In dialogue that is accessible to laymen and policy makers, the authors explain why scientific research must be allowed to continue unfettered and undirected if humankind is to accrue its full benefits. In the United States, the universities are the sole source of scientists and engineers. . . . That alone should tell our political leaders . . . how essential it is for them to provide support for the universities in order to generate and promote economic development and vitality. The universities provide the adequately educated scientists and engineers, and without them a society does not have the slightest chance—short of accidentally running across a diamond mine or gold mine or another thirty trillion barrels of oil—of remaining in the economic race.
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(Signed by the Author. Explanation of federal funding to c...)
Signed by the Author. Explanation of federal funding to colleges and universities and the strings that are attached. Jacket shows some edgewear, several small chips. There is a 1/2" inch tear at head of spine, and two smaller tears on back. There is a bit of soiling to the front and spine. Price clipped. The jacket is now in Brodart. Light grey cloth with blue title on spine and device on front. Pulling to head and tail of spine. Foxing to bottom of boards. Interior is clean. Inscribed by author and dated April 1972. 160p. including index.
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( In the last twenty years America’s higher-education sys...)
In the last twenty years America’s higher-education system has jeopardized our society’s very future by allowing a serious decline in educational quality. Responding to modern egalitarianism and the need to attract students, colleges and universities have initiated wildly innovative programs, noncampuses, and nontraditional degrees. Worse, they have lowered all standards. Nonacademic entrepreneurs, attracted by generous federal funds, now demand equal status with established schools. And they are dangerously near receiving this full recognition from irresolute regional accrediting associations. From his vantage point as Texas' former Commissioner of Higher Education, Kenneth H. Ashworth sounds the alarm to all concerned administrators and teachers in American academia. He harshly criticizes the body-count game and relaxed standards, illustrating problems with vignettes from his own considerable experience. He then proposes to educators steps that would help break the cycle of declining quality. Ashworth also provocatively sketches what he sees as the next major challenge to postsecondary education: a postindustrial” threat to the quality of academic research. Ashworth’s sober reflections are likely to provoke controversy. He makes, for example, a broad-based attack upon nontraditional and external programs, which have too often been uncritically promoted. But his well-articulated theses demand careful, even agonizing, consideration by all who care about American higher education and who, like Ashworth, believe our colleges and universities hold the key to resolving the complex and dangerous issues confronting society.
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Ashworth, Kenneth Hayden was born on February 24, 1932 in Abilene, Texas, United States. Son of Harold Laverne and Mae Beatrice (Grote) Ashworth.
Bachelor of Arts, University Texas, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1969; M. Public Administration, Syracuse University, 1959.
Assistant commissioner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin, 1965-1969; commissioner higher education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 1976-1997; vice chancellor for academic affairs, University Texas System, Austin, 1969-1973; executive vice president, University Texas at San Antonio, 1973-1976. Visiting professor government public affairs University Texas, Austin, since 1997, Texas A &M U., College Station, since 1997.
(Replete with practical advice for anyone considering a ca...)
( A candid and often humorous discussion between Hackerma...)
( A candid and often humorous discussion between Hackerma...)
( In the last twenty years America’s higher-education sys...)
(Signed by the Author. Explanation of federal funding to c...)
Served with United States Navy, 1951-1955. Member Philosophical Society Texas, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha. Clubs: Town and Gown.
Married Emily Yaung; children: Rodney Brian, Karen Grace Saulsberry.