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Author : Peter Tyrell Flawn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292765221
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (652 download)
Download or read book A Primer for University Presidents written by Peter Tyrell Flawn and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alcalde written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Author : Roger H. Hull
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761851682
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Lead or Leave written by Roger H. Hull and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead or Leave provides a checklist of what works and what does not work for those wanting to lead colleges and universities in the 21st century and those with responsibility for the oversight of those institutions. Importantly, this book also seeks to keep educators on a morally straight course. Aimed at presidents and trustees (as well as those who aspire to those positions), Lead or Leave is a valuable guide for anyone concerned about institutions of higher education in the United States.
Author : Damon A. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000981460
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Chief Diversity Officer written by Damon A. Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the role of chief diversity officers as coordinating and integrating diversity leaders in higher education and other sectors.Having established in a companion volume the parameters for an effective diversity strategy, the authors address such questions as: What is a chief diversity officer? How might we create dynamic chief diversity officer infrastructures? What models of CDO structure exist in the academy? What misperceptions often confound the work of officers and the institutions they work within? What key competencies are necessary to lead as a CDO? How does the CDO role compare across higher education, non-profit, and corporate sectors? And how might the role serve as an important contributor to a collaborative vision for change and transformation in the academy?This book begins by delineating the evolution of the chief diversity officer role in the academy. Drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative research on CDOs conducted for the purposes of this volume, it describes how the scope and responsibilities are variously defined at the organizations where the position has been created, and offers insights into the complexities and challenges of the role.On the basis of this data and the literature on organizational design and change management, the authors define the requisite skills, knowledge and background to be effective, review the alternative organizational and governance structures under which CDOs operate, and in so doing present the Chief Diversity Officer Development Framework as a basis for recruiting candidates, for structuring the position to succeed, and for providing prospective and incumbent CDOs with a realistic sense of the scope of the role.This title is also available in a set with its companion volume, Strategic Diversity Leadership.
Author : Rita Bornstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461638798
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Legitimacy in the Academic Presidency written by Rita Bornstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the 1990s and early 21st century impact the evolution of the college presidency? The legitimacy and performance of higher education were called into question during this period, and respect for some of its leaders declined. An economic downturn and the concomitant change of student enrollment patterns have required presidents to lead in compromised conditions. The new emphasis on financial management and fund raising has opened the job of academic president to those with nontraditional backgrounds. These new presidents must gain legitimacy differently from those of more traditional backgrounds, who are struggling with their own legitimacy challenges. In order to understand legitimacy, Bornstein has spplied theory from the social sciences and higher education literature, proposing five factors that influence presidential legitimacy: Individual, Institutional, Environmental, Technical and Moral. She also proposes six threats to legitimacy: Lack of Cultural Fit, Management Incompetence, Misconduct, Erosion of Social Capital, Inattentiveness, and Gradiosity. In light of these threats, she suggests strategies for gaining and maintaining legitimacy. This book focuses on the impetus for leading change. Bornstein draws on numberouns sources for a theoretical perspective on the factors associated witht he president's role in creating legitimate change. She proposes a construct of four factors to implement legitimate change: Presidential Leadership, Governance, Social Capital, and Fund Raising. The concepts of transformational and transactional leadership are examined for their ability to facilitatle change. Bornstein finds their effectiveness limited and proposes "transformative leadership", a contextual approach that fits between transformational and transactional leadership in the conceptual continuum. Since presidents are often recruited on the basis of their academic experience, their legitimacy depends on securing resources to strengthen or transform their institution; fund raising is essential. Fina
Author : Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846404
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era written by Joseph S. Nye Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents tried with varying success to forge a new international order while others sought to manage America’s existing position. The book shows how transformational presidents like Wilson and Reagan changed how America sees the world, but argues that transactional presidents like Eisenhower and the elder Bush were sometimes more effective and ethical. It also draws important lessons for today’s uncertain world, in which presidential decision making is more critical than ever.
Author : Judith Block McLaughlin
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Leadership Transitions: The New College President written by Judith Block McLaughlin and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-06-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both new presidents and their institutions, the presidential leadership transition is an intense experience with serious ramifications for the success of the president's tenure. Ironically, although considerable time is spent orienting new stuedents to our institutions, little thought is given to designing an orientation or entry process for our senior leadership. This sourcebook describes some of the experiences of new presidents during their leadership transition, addresses the varying issues and dilemmas new presidents encounter, and offers advice based on research and first-hand experience. The volume is written for new and experienced presidents, for individuals who aspire to the presidency, and for those who work with new presidents and have a stake in seeing them succeed. This is the 93rd issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.
Author : James J. Duderstadt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110919
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A University for the 21st Century written by James J. Duderstadt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-03-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFrom the former president of one of America's leading universities comes a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing higher education in America as we enter the twenty-first century. In A University for the Twenty-first Century, James J. Duderstadt discusses the array of powerful economic, social, and technological forces that are driving the rapid and profound change in American social institutions and universities in particular. /divDIVChange has always characterized the university as it has sought to preserve and propagate the intellectual achievements, the cultures, and the values of our civilization. However, the capacity of the university to change, through a process characterized by reflection, reaction, and consensus, simply may not be sufficient to allow the university to control its own destiny. Not only will social and technical change be a challenge to the American university, Duderstadt says, it will be the watchword for the years ahead. And with change will come unprecedented opportunities for those universities with the vision, the wisdom, and the courage to lead in the twenty-first century. The real question raised by this book is not whether higher education will be transformed, but rather how . . . and by whom. /divDIVJames J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan. /div
Author : James J. Duderstadt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421403935
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Future of the Public University in America written by James J. Duderstadt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, public colleges and universities educate more than 80 percent of the nation's 11 million college students. Public universities conduct the majority of the country's campus-based research and produce most of the nation's doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, and other professionals and public leaders. They provide critical services such as agricultural and industrial technology, health care, and economic development, and they help students of all ages develop more rewarding careers and more meaningful lives. Written for everyone who is interested in and concerned about the nation's public universities, The Future of the Public University in America offers a view from the perspective of two experienced professionals. James J. Duderstadt, former president of the University of Michigan, and Farris W. Womack, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of the University of Michigan, explore the unique challenges facing public higher education today. They look at the forces driving change—economic imperatives, technology, and market forces—as well as the characteristics of the public university that make change difficult: the nature of its various campus communities, its governance system, its management and decision-making processes, and its leadership. The authors conclude by suggesting strategies at the state and federal level to preserve and strengthen public higher education as a resource for future generations.
Author : Lawrence D. Longley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300080360
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Electoral College Primer 2000 written by Lawrence D. Longley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The president of the United States is not actually elected by a direct vote of the people but indirectly by means of an electoral college. Yet the operations of our archaic electoral college and the extent of its influence in presidential elections are little understood by most Americans. In this complete and authoritative guide to the electoral college, Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce provide essential Information on how the electoral system works -- and sometimes misfires. At its best, the authors reveal, the electoral college distorts campaign strategy and poorly represents the popular will. And at its worst, it can create political and constitutional crises.The book includes detailed accounts of recent elections, including that of 1992 when election of the president by the House of Representatives appeared for a while to be the likely outcome. The authors also offer an imaginative version of election year 2000, during which the astonishing results of an electoral deadlock demonstrate the disastrous failings of the electoral college as a means of electing the people's president.
Author : James C. Garland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226283887
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Saving Alma Mater written by James C. Garland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s public universities educate 80% of our nation’s college students. But in the wake of rising demands on state treasuries, changing demographics, growing income inequality, and legislative indifference, many of these institutions have fallen into decline. Tuition costs have skyrocketed, class sizes have gone up, the number of courses offered has gone down, and the overall quality of education has decreased significantly. Here James C. Garland draws on more than thirty years of experience as a professor, administrator, and university president to argue that a new compact between state government and public universities is needed to make these schools more affordable and financially secure. Saving Alma Mater challenges a change-resistant culture in academia that places too low a premium on efficiency and productivity. Seeing a crisis of campus leadership, Garland takes state legislators to task for perpetuating the decay of their public university systems and calls for reforms in the way university presidents and governing boards are selected. He concludes that the era is long past when state appropriations can enable public universities to keep their fees low and affordable. Saving Alma Mater thus calls for the partial deregulation of public universities and a phase-out of their state appropriations. Garland’s plan would tie university revenues to their performance and exploit the competitive pressures of the academic marketplace to control costs, rein in tuition, and make schools more responsive to student needs. A much-needed blueprint for reform based on Garland’s real-life successes as the head of Miami University of Ohio, Saving Alma Mater will be essential for anyone concerned with the costs and quality of higher education in America today.
Author : Pamela L. Eddy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813596793
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Leading for Tomorrow written by Pamela L. Eddy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an engaging case study approach, Leading for Tomorrow provides new and emerging college and university administrators with real-world examples that will help them reflect on their own management and communication styles. It also offers practical solutions for how to deal with escalating challenges in the field of higher education, from decreasing state funding to political controversies on campus.
Author : Julius Getman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786506
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book In the Company of Scholars written by Julius Getman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I began this book to articulate my sense of disappointment and alienation from the status I had fought so hard to achieve." A remarkable admission from an alumnus of Harvard Law School who has held tenured professorships in the law schools of Yale and Stanford and has taught in the law schools of Harvard and Chicago. In this personal reflection on the status of higher education, Julius Getman probes the tensions between status and meaning, elitism and egalitarianism, that challenge the academy and academics today. He shows how higher education creates a shared intellectual community among people of varied races and classes—while simultaneously dividing people on the basis of education and status. In the course of his explorations, Getman touches on many of the most current issues in higher education today, including the conflict between teaching and research, challenges to academic freedom, the struggle over multiculturalism, and the impact of minority and feminist activism. Getman presents these issues through relevant, often humorous anecdotes, using his own and others' experiences in coping with the constantly changing academic landscape. Written from a liberal perspective, the book offers another side of the story told in such works as Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals.
Author : Susan R. Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118027760
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book On Being Presidential written by Susan R. Pierce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for On Being Presidential "This is the best book I've ever read on being a college president."—Arthur Levine, president, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and president emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University "A must-read for anyone involved in higher education. Susan Resneck Pierce's cautionary tales and commonsense approach to college management present, in a very entertaining way, the 'dos' and 'don'ts' of effective postsecondary academic leadership. Highly recommended... I am so enthusiastic that I plan to share On Being Presidential with two new university presidents!"—Barbara Young, vice-chair, Sweet Briar College Board of Directors, and two-time appointee to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees "Susan Pierce provides an insightful guide to the successful presidency, lessons based not on theory but gleaned from meaningful experiences. Nearly every page contains pearls of wisdom both for college and university presidents and for those who aspire to lead campuses."—Constantine W. Curris, president emeritus, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Author : Deni Elliott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 146166649X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Kindness of Strangers written by Deni Elliott and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when they are fundraisers and donors in addition to playing their primary roles in higher education, business-university research partnerships that put business values in conflict of academic values and mission, commercialization of student athletics, and endowment use and investment. Supplemented by a series of carefully selected articles, The Kindness of Strangers needs to be read by anyone who is concerned by higher education's increasing dependency on corporate and individual donors.
Author : David A. Tandberg
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807776734
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The State Higher Education Executive Officer and the Public Good written by David A. Tandberg and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421424924
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Leading Colleges and Universities written by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building on research from Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It, Gerald B. Kauvar, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, and E. Gordon Gee approach the matter of college and university leadership from a positive angle: what lessons can we learn from successful college and university leaders? The rolodex of authors--a veritable Who's Who in American Higher Education today--reveal the secret to success in leading institutions with real-life examples. Not content with vague answers or clichéd platitudes, the authors provide specifics on a list of core questions: how do you manage college athletics, the faculty, a governing board, donors, and a local community? How do you control an institutional budget and investment portfolio? What do you need to know about crisis management and legal affairs? When should you be outspoken in the media and when should you shut up? Leading Colleges and Universities is a primer on how successful presidents lead successful schools"--
