Enhancing campus capacity for leadership : an examination of grassroots leaders in higher education / Adrianna J. Kezar and Jaime Lester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kezar, Adrianna J.

Contributor:

Lester, Jaime.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership--United States.

Educational leadership.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college campuses. In an increasingly corporatized environment, grassroots leadership can provide a balance to the prestige- and revenue-seeking impulses of traditional campus leaders, create changes in the teaching and learning core, build greater equity, improve relationships among campus stakeholders, and enhance the student experience. This book documents the stories of grassroots leaders, including their motivation and background, the tactics and strategies that they use, the obstacles that they overcome, and the ways that they navigate power and join with formal authority. This investigation also highlights the fact that grassroots leaders, particularly in more marginalized groups, can face significant backlash. The authors end with a discussion of the future of leadership on college campuses, examining the possibilities for shared and collaborative forms of guidance and governance.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Grassroots Leadership: Making the Invisible Visible

2. Framing the Study: Tempered Radicals Framework

3. Developing a Study of Grassroots Leaders: Approach to Inquiry, Assumptions, and Institutional Descriptions

4. Meet the Grassroots Leaders

5. Tactics and Strategy for Creating Meaningful Change

6. Analyzing and Overcoming Obstacles and Challenges for Grassroots Leadership

7. Encounters with Authority and Power: Ways Grassroots Leaders Navigate Resistance and Oppression

8. Grassroots Leaders’ Understanding of Power and Effects on Leadership Style

9. Remaining Resilient

10. Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up: Challenges and Opportunities

11. Leading in a Time of Corporatization: The Impact of Institutional Structures and Culture

12. Encouraging and Supporting Faculty and Staff Grassroots Leadership

13. Moving Forward: Leadership Implications and Future Research

Appendix: Grassroots Leadership

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804781626

0804781621

OCLC:

923700015