A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education: Concepts, Competencies, and Tools

ISBN-13: 9781642672459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 496 str.

Brent D. Ruben; Richard de Lisi; Ralph A. Gigliotti

Opis

The concepts and tools in this book are equally valuable for faculty and staff leaders, whether in formal leadership roles, such as deans, chairs, or directors of institutes, committees, or task forces, or those who perform informal leadership functions within their departments, disciplines, or institutions.

Recenzje

“If universities want to improve and be prepared for the inevitable turbulences in the future, they must commit themselves to developing a new generation of leaders who possess analytic, strategic, and operational skills. The best way to do so is by identifying industry-wide best practices and then inculcating them into one’s own institution. This is precisely where A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education intervenes. Brent Ruben, Richard De Lisi, and Ralph Gigliotti with a seasoned and insightful roster of contributors who understand the nuances of the higher education landscape, identify the challenges and opportunities that leaders will encounter, and guide the reader through case studies that will move the pursuit of leadership from the abstract toward the concrete.

We are living in an unstable age in which colleges and universities come under withering and relentless attacks for any number of shortcomings, real or imagined. Higher education leaders, if identified and trained properly, can thwart these attacks and change the narrative, ensuring their institutions continue to engage in the essential activities they do best. A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education is a major intervention, and it is appearing at precisely the right moment.”

Jonathan Scott Holloway

President, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

“Academic leadership is one of the few professions with absolutely no formal training. Leaders in higher education come to their position without leadership training, without prior executive experience; without a clear understanding of their roles; and without understanding the cost to their academic and personal lives. With only 3% of universities and colleges providing professional development for its academic leaders, the time of amateur administration is over. Too much is at stake in this time of change to let leadership be left to chance. A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education is a ‘must read’ and centerpiece for current and prospective academic leaders—and university professional development programs.”

Walt Gmelch

Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership Studies, University of San Francisco

“After an award-winning 1st edition, Brent Ruben, Richard De Lisi, and Ralph Gigliotti are back with a 2nd edition of A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education Concept, Competencies, and Tools. This book could not come at a better time given the leadership challenges facing society like COVID-19 and issues of equity and social justice. The authors not only address higher education’s role in meeting these challenges, but they expand their treatment of the book’s core concepts and tools. As a result, they bridge theory and practice and underscore the communicative foundation of academic leadership in sophisticated fashion. The continuing importance of their work cannot be underestimated. It is a resource that all academic leaders need—and will thoroughly enjoy.”

Gail T. Fairhurst

Distinguished University Research Professor, University of Cincinnati

“This book is unique in providing both frameworks and vital information needed for successful leadership in higher education. I recommend it to all of our department chairs and use it in our leadership development program. Coverage of essential topics such as the changing landscape of higher education, perspectives on leadership, and communication strategies for academic leaders makes this an essential resource for aspiring and current academic leaders.”

Eliza K. Pavalko

Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs; and Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor of Sociology, University of Indiana, Bloomington

“There is an urgent need for leadership in higher education to confront the complexity of interdependent issues with the relevance and criticality of higher learning. This book offers leadership concepts and competencies for leader development and organizational effectiveness with the greater purpose of impacting higher education for a better society.”

Cynthia Cherrey

President and CEO, International Leadership Association

Spis treści

Foreword Preface Part One. Leadership in Higher Education. A Critical Need in a Complex and Challenging Landscape 1. Academic Leadership. Toward an Integrating Framework 2. Leadership and Leadership Development in Higher Education 3. The Higher Education Landscape. Navigating the Economic, Organizational, Social, and Strategic Terrain 4. College and University Missions and Stakeholders. Purposes, Perspectives, Pressures — Barbara Bender and Susan E. Lawrence 5. The Role of Formal and Informal Leaders in Governance. Locus of Power and Authority —Susan E. Lawrence and Richard De Lisi 6. Campus Cultures and the Leader's Role. Valuing Diversity and Enhancing Inclusion —Sangeeta Lamba and Brent D. Ruben 7. The Transition to Leadership. From Pilot to Air Traffic Controller Part Two. Leadership Concepts and Competencies 8. What is Leadership? Making Sense of Complexity and Contradiction 9. The Competency Approach. Integrating Leadership Knowledge and Skill 10. Leadership and Communication. Principles and Pragmatics 11. Conflict and Difficult Conversations. A Leadership Competencies Laboratory 12. Leadership Self-Assessment and Reflecting Practice. Always a Work in Progress Part Three. Applied Tools for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness 13. The Excellence in Higher Education Model. An Integrating Framework for Envisioning, Pursuing, and Sustaining Organizational Excellence 14. Strategic Planning. Translating Aspirations Into Realities —Sherrie Tromp and Brent D. Ruben 15. Organizational Change: A Matrix Approach 16. Outcomes Assessment. Creating and Implementing Measurement Systems 17. Crisis Leadership. A Values-Centered Approach to Crisis in Higher Education —Ralph A. Gigliotti and John Fortunato 18. Leadership Development in Higher Education. Formal and Informal Methods 19. Leadership Succession Planning. The Missing Link in Organizational Advancement? 20. Into Uncharted Waters Appendix A. A Snapshot View of the American Higher Education Sector References About the Authors Index

O autorze

Brent D. Ruben is a distinguished professor in communication at Rutgers University, where he also serves as senior university fellow, advisor for strategy and planning in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and was the founder of the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership. He is also a member of the faculties of the Rutgers PhD program in higher education and the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. Brent is author or co-author of numerous publications in communication, organizational leadership, planning, assessment, and change, including Excellence in Higher Education Guide (Stylus, 2016), What Leaders Need to Know and Do (National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2006), and Communication and Human Behavior (Kendall Hunt, 2020). Ruben was a founder of the Rutgers Department of Communication, and first PhD program director of the School of Communication and Information. He was a founder and first president of the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation in Higher Education (NCCI), served as Rutgers inaugural liaison and is a frequent contributor to the Big Ten Academic Alliance leadership programs, and serves as an adviser to colleges and universities has and nationally and internationally.

Richard De Lisi is an emeritus university professor of developmental psychology at Rutgers University and a Senior Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership. Richard was a faculty member at Rutgers University in New Brunswick for 43 years and had more than 25 years of experience as a formal leader at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education including chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, graduate program director for the Ph.D. in Education Program, graduate program director for the Ph.D. in Higher Education Program, and dean of the Graduate School of Education from 2003 to 2014. Under De Lisi’s leadership, the Graduate School of Education increased its on-line course offerings, developed its first on-line masters degree programs, developed teacher education and school counseling programs that received national accreditation, substantially expanded its Ph.D. in Education program; developed a new Ph.D. in Higher Education program; and revised its Ed.D. program as an initial cohort member of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate.

Ralph A. Gigliotti, Ph.D. is assistant vice president for the Office of University Strategy and director of the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers University where he provides executive leadership for a portfolio of aca¬demic leadership programs, strategic consultation services, and research ini¬tiatives. He also has part-time faculty appointments in the Department of Communication, PhD program in Higher Education, and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is author and coauthor of numerous books and articles explor¬ing the intersection of communication, leadership, and crisis in higher edu-cation, including A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education: Core Concepts, Competencies, and Tools (Stylus, 2021), Leadership in Academic Health Centers: Core Concepts and Critical Cases (Kendall Hunt, 2021), and Crisis Leadership in Higher Education: Theory and Practice (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Gigliotti is a national examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence program (National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce). He is also actively involved in numerous boards and leadership teams, including the leadership team of the Training and Development Division for the National Communication Association and the Board of Directors for the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation (NCCI).

Jonathan Scott Holloway, PhD, Yale University, is a U.S. historian and the 21st president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He also serves as a university professor and distinguished professor. Prior to his presidency of Rutgers in 2020, Holloway was provost of Northwestern University from 2017 to 2020 and a member of the faculty of Yale University from 1999 to 2017. At Yale University, he served as Dean of Yale College and the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies. President Holloway’s scholarly work focuses on postemancipation U.S. history with an emphasis on social and intellectual history. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, 2021), Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). He edited Ralph Bunche’s A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (New York University Press, 2005) and coedited Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century (Notre Dame University Press, 2007). Holloway serves on boards of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Academic Leadership Institute. He is also member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the Council on Foreign Relations.