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Academic leadership in higher education : from the top down and the bottom up / edited by Robert Sternberg [and five others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.
- Universities and colleges.
- Educational leadership--United States.
- Educational leadership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowwman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Now what should I do?" This is a question academic leaders ask themselves with great regularity.As ironic as it may seem, very few academic leaders have had any formal training in academic administration, or in any kind of administration at all.For the most part, academic administrators learn on the job.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- I: Introduction
- 1 What Have We Learned about Academic Leadership?
- II: Presidents or Chancellors and Past-Academic Executive Officers
- 2 Thoughts on Leadership
- 3 Maintaining a Personal Program of Research and Scholarship While Serving as President/Chancellor
- 4 Effective Academic Leadership
- 5 Strategic Planning Through Thick and Thin
- 6 Strategies for Effective Shared Governance
- 7 Literature and the Leadership Lesson of House Mountain
- 8 When to Lead How
- III: Provosts and Past Provosts
- 9 Developing Mentors on the Path to Leadership
- 10 My Life in Administration
- 11 The Art of "No"
- 12 Leadership Advice
- 13 In Search of a New Language of Leadership
- 14 Changing for Excellence
- 15 Academic Strategic Planning
- 16 University Leadership
- 17 Success in Central Administration
- 18 Where You Stand Is Where You Sit
- 19 Bold Aspirations
- IV: Deans and Past Deans
- 20 Disruption, Innovation, and Journalism Education
- 21 Academic Leadership through Strategic Planning
- 22 Ten Strategies for Enhancing the Academic Leader's Communication Effectiveness
- 23 Academic Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change
- 24 Leadership and Measurement
- 25 Leading
- 26 "Managing Up" in the Academy
- 27 Leadership
- V: Chairs and Past Chairs
- 28 Being a Department Chair
- 29 Chairing Stories
- 30 The Science Chair as Scientific Leader
- 31 Confronting Trade-Offs in Academic Settings
- 32 Strategic Planning
- VI: Concluding Thoughts
- 33 Practical Ways of Increasing and Sustaining Morale
- 34 Conclusion
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4758-0805-4
- OCLC:
- 900344127
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