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Academic leadership in higher education : from the top down and the bottom up /
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. They also seek advice wherever they can get it. The purpose of this book is to offer such...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Preface; Introduction; What Have We Learned about Academic Leadership?; Presidents or Chancellors and Past-Academic Executive Officers; Thoughts on Leadership; Maintaining a Personal Program of Research and Scholarship While Serving as President/Chancellor; Effective Academic Leadership; Strategic Planning Through Thick and Thin; Strategies for Effective Shared Governance; Literature and the Leadership Lesson of House Mountain; When to Lead How; Provosts and Past Provosts; Developing Mentors on the Path to Leadership; My Life in Administration; The Art of "No"; Leadership Advice.
- In Search of a New Language of LeadershipChanging for Excellence; Academic Strategic Planning; University Leadership; Success in Central Administration; Where You Stand Is Where You Sit; Bold Aspirations; Deans and Past Deans; Disruption, Innovation, and Journalism Education; Academic Leadership through Strategic Planning; Ten Strategies for Enhancing the Academic Leader's Communication Effectiveness; Academic Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change; Leadership and Measurement; Leading; "Managing Up" in the Academy; Leadership; Chairs and Past Chairs; Being a Department Chair; Chairing Stories.
- The Science Chair as Scientific LeaderConfronting Trade-Offs in Academic Settings; Strategic Planning; Concluding Thoughts; Practical Ways of Increasing and Sustaining Morale; Conclusion; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors.