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The American college presidency as vocation : easing the burden, enhancing the joy /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abilene, Texas :
Abilene Christian University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The project
- The program
- The program curriculum
- The interviews
- ch. 1. From career to calling : the making of the vocational president
- Vocational commitment as a qualification for the presidency
- Program facilitation of vocational discernment among prospective presidents
- Variations in discernment among prospectives and spouses
- The conflation of vocation and work
- The role of friendship in vocational discernment
- Self-doubt and vocational discernment
- The balanced versus the centered life
- From discernment of vocation to the pursuit of vocation
- Creative vs. vocational leadership
- Vocational humility
- Converting the presidency from profession to vocation
- From scholarship to envisioning
- Conlcusion
- ch. 2. From administration to envisioning : shaping the vocational presidency
- Vocation for presidents vs. vocation for presidencies
- Vocational vs. "executive" leadership in higher education
- The imperial propensities of presidential vocationism
- Managing institutional resistance to vocational leadership : two cases
- From mission to the concept of saga : creating institutional self-consciousness
- From saga to vision : the vocational president as student of the college
- The dialectic of envisioning
- The forensic rhetoric of the vocational presidency
- Vocational humility and the self-confidence of envisioning
- The vicational presidency as "level 5" leadership
- Conclusion
- ch. 3. Inspiring and sustaining the vocational presidency
- The centrality of "cause" in vocational life : the first case
- The centrality of "cause" in vocational life : the second case
- Sustaining the vocational "cause" : the third case
- The centrality of "cause" in vocational life : the fourth case
- The joy of being called
- Vocational resolve, faith, and education
- Mediating realism and idealism in vocationism
- Success as sustenance for the vocational presidency
- Mentoring networks
- Conclusion
- ch. 4. The design and construction of the vocational college
- From administration to vision in the revitalization of an undergraduate college
- Vocation as a faculty development strategy in an undergraduate college
- The relationship in vocational colleges between the instrumental and envisioned regimes
- Maintaining authoirty for vocational leadership while accomplishing reform
- Vocational commitment and personal experience
- The ministry of the vocational president and the vocational college
- Work as the redemption of vocation and the liberal arts
- Taming individualism : discovering independence in community
- From social alienation to vocational commitment
- The role of the liberal arts in the transformation of colleg einto polity
- Listening to the college in constructing the vision
- Eliciting alumni guidance about envisioning
- Restoring founding orthodoxy : can it be done?
- Conclusion
- ch. 5. Conclusion : the alignment of vocation and mission in American academe
- The alignment of personal vocation and institutional mission
- The dialiectics of alignment
- The optimism of the vocational presidency
- The vocational presidency and the reconciliation of competing force
- Vocation as a therapy for the separations of modern democracy.