A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education

Concepts, Competencies, and Tools

Brent D. Ruben, Richard De Lisi, Ralph A. Gigliotti (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

486 Seiten

2021 | 2nd edition
Stylus Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64267-245-9 (ISBN)

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FIRST EDITION SPECIAL RECOGNITION:Winner of the 2018 Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, National Communication Association, Applied Communication Division REVIEWS OF THE FIRST EDITION“The book provides frameworks and resources that would be highly relevant for new and aspiring department chairs. In fact, this text is ideally designed to serve as a selection for a book discussion group.”—The Department Chair“Succeeds in providing accessible and useful resources to individuals across different leadership roles… As a midpoint between textbook and reference work, it is successful at both and provides a clear and unbiased background to issues facing current leaders.”—Reflective TeachingDuring a time of unprecedented challenges facing higher education, the need for effective leadership – for informal and formal leaders across the organization – has never been more imperative.Since publication of the first edition, the environment for higher education has become more critical and complex. Whether facing falling enrollments, questions of economic sustainability, the changing composition of the faculty and student bodies, differential retention and graduation rates, declining public confidence in the enterprise, or the rise in the use of virtual technologies – not to mention how COVID-19 and an intensified focus on long standing issues of racial and gender representation and equity have impacted institutions and challenged many long-standing assumptions – it is clear that learning on the job no longer suffices. Leadership development in higher education has become essential for advancing institutional effectiveness, which is the focus of this book.Taking into account the imperative issues of diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and the context of institutional mission and culture, this book centers on developing capacities for designing and implementing plans, strategies, and structures; connecting and engaging with colleagues and students; and communicating and collaborating with external constituencies in order to shape decisions and policies. It highlights the need to think broadly about the purposes of higher education and the dynamics of organizational excellence, and to apply these insights effectively in goal setting, planning and change leadership, outcomes assessment, addressing crises, and continuous improvement at both the level of the individual and organization.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. It can be used as a professional guide, a textbook in graduate courses, or as a resource in leadership training and development programs. Each chapter concludes with a series of case studies and guiding questions.

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 offering

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-64267-245-9 / 1642672459
ISBN-13	978-1-64267-245-9 / 9781642672459
Zustand	Neuware