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Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the 21st Century
Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the 21st Century
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Leaders in the Crossroads: Success and Failure in the College Presidency (American Council of Education Series on Higher Education) Reviews
Leaders in the Crossroads: Success and Failure in the College Presidency (American Council of Education Series on Higher Education)
This book considers two intriguing issues. One is an exploration of the characteristics that determine success and failure in the academy’s top post. The second is more complex but equally crucial: What is the impact of presidents on the ideals of the university? How do presidential leadership, rhetoric, and action connect to the fundamental beliefs and values at the foundation of the university? College presidents are noteworthy leaders in and outside the gates. Deliberations about the success and failure of presidents, and their obligation to the foundations of the academy generate more questions than answers. However, this inquiry is crucial because it sheds light on the college presidency and on its relationship to the future of the university.
Transforming Higher Education: Views From Leaders Around The World (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) Reviews
Transforming Higher Education: Views From Leaders Around The World (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)
It is important for those who will lead higher education into the next century to understand the forces currently transforming universities worldwide. In Transforming Higher education, many of these influences are identified by contributors from around thew world, including demands for greater access to higher education, funding problems, the conflicting requirements of various constituencies, and the pressure to contribute to a country’s economic and social development. The various forms of leadership currently in place at higher education institutions around the world are described, as well as the tasks that all higher education leaders share.