Leadership in Higher Education

Describes the key forces that influence higher education and provides a framework from which trustees, presidents, administrators, faculty, and policy makers can address pressing issues in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Guide to being proactive about change in a way that ensures a healthy future for the institution, complete with models and tools that help lead the way.

Through real stories, the author shows how she made creative connections in building her own knowledge on present and past experience, with reflection on how practice can be improved with a clear focus on collegiality and strategic outcomes.

With a focus on organizational improvement and leading strategically within changing policy contexts, chapters interrogate key leadership issues such as managing people, values and context.

An exploration of multi-campus higher education systems and their role in improving communities and their economies.

Gives readers an insider's view of the academy, describing the structure, logic, dynamics, and operational styles of both public and private institutions of higher education.

Shows academic leaders how to increase resource productivity and enhance teaching quality.

For Black women faculty members and student affairs personnel, this book delineates the needed skills and the range of possible pathways for attaining administrative positions in higher education.

Outlines key topics related to the changing environment of higher education while explaining what constitutes effective leadership at the college and university level.

Calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it.

Presents both hard facts regarding the current demographic realities within higher education and fresh thinking about how progress can and must be made in order for U.S. higher education to benefit from the perspectives of women at the senior leadership table.