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Universities today are faced with mounting pressures. Accountability, declining applicant pools of traditional college age cohorts, and resource allocation conflicts exacerbate competition between and among departments and between traditional disciplines and newer programs. Interinstitutional conflict about goals has the schools and colleges of universities clashing for pieces of a diminishing resource pie when they need to work together.
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Runsdorf, N.B. (1984). Worksite Stressors and University Faculty. In: McGuigan, F.J., Sime, W.E., Wallace, J.M. (eds) Stress and Tension Control 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2803-2_29
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