Challenges in Higher Education Leadership
Practical and Scholarly Solutions
Gebonden Engels 2017 9781138884861Samenvatting
In this important resource, experienced higher education presidents and senior leaders come together with respected scholars to tackle the most important and timely issues facing leaders in colleges and universities today. Challenges in Higher Education Leadership advances critical leadership and management skills across a broad array of topics, including student learning, access and affordability, racism, fundraising, athletics, and new technology. Chapters strike a balance between theory and practical advice while promoting the notion that all leaders can learn lessons from one another that can be useful in their own specific contexts. This book poses strategic questions readers should answer, along with advice about how to effectively address today's challenges, providing leaders with the skills and perspectives necessary to respond to higher education students’ needs.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Preface
James Soto Antony, Ana Mari Cauce, and Donna E. Shalala
Chapter 1
Avatars of Learning: The Heart and Purpose of Presidential Leadership
William Scott Green and Donna E. Shalala
Chapter 2
Leading the Call for Improving Student Learning Goals and Outcomes
Corbin M. Campbell and Mary J. Meehan
Chapter 3
The Leadership Challenges for Higher Education’s Digital Future
Rafael L. Bras and Richard A. DeMillo
Chapter 4
Leading Higher Education Redesign
Ross Gittell
Chapter 5
Access and Affordability in Selective, Private Non-Profit Colleges and Universities
David Zimmerman and Catherine Bond Hill
Chapter 6
Serving the Public Good by Utilizing Scientific Patents to Incentivize Economic Growth
John D. Wiley and Laura Dunek
Chapter 7
Fundraising and the Future of Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Paul Quinn College
Marybeth Gasman and Michael Sorrell
Chapter 8
Racially Responsive Leadership: Addressing the Longstanding Problem of Racism in Higher Education
Shaun R. Harper
Chapter 9
The Evolving Social Contract for Higher Education in the 21st Century: Serving the Public Good While Incentivizing Economic Growth
Nancy Zimpher, Laura Dunek, and Jessica Neidl
Chapter 10
Improving the Experience of Women in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Professoriate
Phyllis M. Wise and Elizabeth H. Simmons
Chapter 11
Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum People Out of the Shadows: The Institutional Imperative for Building Inclusive Campus Communities
Susan (Sue) Rankin, Stephen Thurston Oliver, and Karen M. Whitney
Chapter 12
Leading Toward an Alignment between Athletics and the Academic Mission
John Emerson, Mark Emmert, and Robert Kustra
Conclusion
James Soto Antony, Ana Mari Cauce, and Donna E. Shalala
About the Contributors
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan