Strategic Leadership: Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities

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Praeger, 2007 - Business & Economics - 295 pages
Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market realities, reduced state funding, globalization, technology, and a long list of other challenges. Dealing with these issues can immobilize colleges and universities, or it can cause them to become so market-driven that they will sacrifice their own legacy of academic values. This book places strategic planning in a new conceptual framework that is oriented to interactive leadership rooted in human agency and values. It will assist academic professionals, stakeholders such as trustees, and students of higher education to better understand and use strategic planning as an effective process and as a method of collaborative leadership.

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The Ambiguities and Possibilities of Leadership
21
The System and Culture of Academic
39
Structural Conflict in Values
46
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RICHARD L. MORRILL currently serves on several corporate and not-for-profit boards and as a consultant on governance, leadership, and strategy to colleges and universities. Following ten years as president of the University of Richmond, he became chancellor, and was also named Distinguished Univesrity Professor of Ethics and Democratic Values in 1998. He previously served as president of Centre College and of Salem College. He is author of Teaching Values in College (1980) and Strategic Leadership in Academic Affairs: Clarifying the Board's Responsibilities (2002). Morrill received degrees from Brown University and Yale University before completing doctoral work at Duke in religion and ethics.

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