Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership
Author: Richard L. Morrill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607096552

Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market realities, reduced state funding, globalization, technology, and a long list of other challenges. Dealing with these issues can immobilize colleges and universities, or it can cause them to become so market-driven that they will sacrifice their own legacy of academic values. This book places strategic planning in a new conceptual framework that is oriented to interactive leadership rooted in human agency and values. It will assist academic professionals, stakeholders such as trustees, and students of higher education to better understand and use strategic planning as an effective process and as a method of collaborative leadership.

Call to Purpose

Call to Purpose
Author: Matthew Hartley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317849469

A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.

Rethinking the "L" Word in Higher Education: The Revolution of Research on Leadership

Rethinking the
Author: Adrianna Kezar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-10-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118216555

In these times of change and challenge in higher education, pleas for leadership have become frequent. However, the type of leadership required within this new context (of globalization, demographic changes, technological advancement, and questioning of social authority) may call for different skills, requiring a re-education among campus stakeholders if they want to be successful leaders. In the past twenty years, there has been a revolution in the way that leadership is conceptualized across most fields and disciplines. Leadership has moved away from being leader-centered, individualistic, hierarchical, focused on universal characteristics, and emphasizing power over followers. Instead, a new vision has emerged: leadership that is process-centered, collective, context-bound, non-hierarchical, and focused on mutual power and influence processes. This volume summarizes research and literature about new conceptualizations of leadership to inform practice. This is volume 31, number 6, of the ASHE Higher Education Report, a bi-monthly journal published by Jossey-Bass. See our entire list of ASHE Higher Education Report titles for a wide variety of critical issues facing Higher Education today.

The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?

The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?
Author: Alberto Amaral
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401000727

Offering a unique comparative analysis of the emergence of managerialism in eleven different countries, this book examines the response and adaptation of higher education institutions to their external environments. It addresses the key question of how changes in management thinking and practice are affecting internal institutional dynamics and is relevant to scholars and students, institutional managers, government officials, university administrators and university board members.

Governance in the Twenty-First-Century University: Approaches to Effective Leadership and Strategic Management

Governance in the Twenty-First-Century University: Approaches to Effective Leadership and Strategic Management
Author: Dennis John Gayle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118216644

Explores approaches to effective leadership and strategic management in the twenty-first century university that recognize and respond to the perceptions and attitudes of university leaders toward institutional structures. It examines the differences between treating universities as businesses and managing universities in a businesslike manner, what kinds of leadership will best address challenges, and how to gain consensus among constituents that change is needed. From historical background to modern e-learning techniques, we look at governance to find systems that are effectively structured to balance the needs of students, educators, administrators, trustees, and legislators.

The Organization of Higher Education

The Organization of Higher Education
Author: Michael N. Bastedo
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1421404486

Tierney, University of Southern California; and the late J. Douglas Toma, University of Georgia

Leading Rites: an Examination of Ritualization and Leadership in Faculty Professional Life

Leading Rites: an Examination of Ritualization and Leadership in Faculty Professional Life
Author: Shah Hasan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-05-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1543423035

How does the faculty of a small liberal arts college make meaning of their professional careers and their personal lives? In this book, based on a particular study at one small college in the Midwest, author Shah Hasan explores the narrative contours of the lives of four faculty membersFrancesca, Charles, Paula, and Rebecca. Utilizing the qualitative research approaches of extended interviews, narrative analysis, and narrative inquiry, the stories of their service at the college are excavated for patterns of ritualization and leadership.