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The view from the helm : leading the American university during an era of change / James J. Duderstadt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duderstadt, James J., 1942-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duderstadt, James J., 1942-2024.
- Duderstadt, James J.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.
- Universities and colleges.
- United States.
- Administration.
- College presidents--United States.
- College presidents.
- Educational leadership--United States.
- Educational leadership.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 400 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The path to the presidency
- The leaders and best
- Institutional saga
- The Michigan saga
- A heritage of leadership
- Michigan's character as a trailblazer
- The role of institutional saga in presidential leadership
- The "what," "how," and "who" of the university presidency
- The path to the presidency
- Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor; rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief . . . and university president
- The academic leadership ladder
- The path to the Michigan White House
- On to Michigan
- Trapped in the gravitational pull of academic administration
- On the brink
- The presidential search
- The search process
- The presidential search : a victim's perspective
- A postmortem
- Some advice for presidential search committees and university governing boards
- Some advice for candidates for university presidencies
- So what are we supposed to do now?
- Presidential leadership
- The elements of presidential leadership
- Several unique aspects of university leadership
- The many styles and philosophies of presidential leadership
- Adapting leadership styles to the times and the institution
- A matter of personal style
- Movers and shakers, pushers and coasters: the impact of the presidency
- Leadership for a time of change
- Executive leadership
- The executive officer team
- Go downtown and get the money
- Bricks and mortar
- Crisis management
- The challenges of executive leadership
- Academic leadership
- The academic clockwork
- Faculty quality
- Selection and recruitment of academic leadership
- Tinkering with time bombs
- The challenges to academic leadership by the president
- Political leadership
- Growing up in a rough neighborhood
- Defending the university
- The loyal (and sometimes not so loyal) opposition
- The president and the governing board
- The broader political agenda of the university and the university presidency
- The hazards of political leadership
- Moral leadership
- The challenges to moral leadership
- Social diversity and academic excellence
- Student affairs
- Institutional integrity
- The bully pulpit
- Pastoral care
- Personal traits and traps
- Strategic leadership
- The approach
- The action plan
- Lessons learned and the growing concern
- Institutional transformation
- Experiments and ventures
- More lessons learned: the challenges of transformation
- The university president: an endangered species?
- Life as a university president
- The president's spouse
- The hired help
- A turn about the university calendar
- Lifestyles of the rich and famous
- On the road
- A matter of style
- Always some doubts
- Tilting with windmills
- Windmill numbers 1: the privately supported public university
- Windmill numbers 2: college sports
- Windmill numbers 3: university governance
- The importance of fighting losing battles
- The endgame
- Survival instinct
- Putting it all on the line
- Wear and tear
- The two-minute warning
- Taking stock
- Fading away
- Years after a decade at the helm
- Whence and whither the university
- Some final thoughts on the university presidency
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472115907
- 0472115901
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.168531
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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