Leading Colleges and Universities Lessons from Higher Education Leaders 1st Edition by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 9781421424934 1421424932

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• ISBN 10: 1421424932
• ISBN 13: 9781421424934
• Author: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 

Today’s college and university leaders face complex problems that test their political acumen as well as their judgment, intellect, empathy, and ability to plan and improvise. How do they thoughtfully and creatively rise to the challenge? In Leading Colleges and Universities, editors Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon Gee bring together a host of presidents and other leaders in higher education who describe how they dealt with the issues.

Each contributor has been effective as a president or other significant leader in postsecondary education. In this book they share real-life examples and stories that illustrate how they have dealt with the challenges they encountered. Together they answer these and other core questions:
• How do you manage college athletics, faculty, a governing board, donors, and a local community?
• What do you need to know about crisis management and legal affairs?
• When should you be outspoken in the media and when should you be quiet?

The book does not shy away from hot contemporary issues, tackling such controversial matters as free speech, Title IX, athletics, fraternities, student and faculty diversity, and board relations. Presidents and would-be presidents—as well as boards, search committees, state boards, legislators, and others involved in higher education—will find much helpful guidance in this timely book.

Table contents:

Part I: Getting Started

1. Becoming a President

2. Transition to the Position

3. Building a Leadership Team

4 Maintaining Good Relations with the Board

5. Developing Relations with Faculty and Staff

6. Delegating Authority

Part II: Internal Challenges

7. Internationalizing the Curriculum and Student Experience

8. Complexity and Chicanery in Collegiate Athletics

9. Dealing with Claims and Counterclaims of Unwanted Sexual Contact

10. The Complexities of Shared Government and Freedom of Speech

11. Managing Emergencies

12. How Tenuous Is Tenure?

Part III: External Challenges

13. Working with Elected and Community Officials

14. Exercising Institutional Autonomy

15. Managing Donor Relations

16. Dealing with the Changing Landscape of Accreditation

17. Litigation or the Threat of Litigation as a Constraint

18. Balancing Systemwide Needs with Institutional Autonomy

19. When to Take a Stand on National Policy

Part IV: Personal Challenges

20. Presidents and General Counsels: A Unique Relationship

21. Exiting with Grace and ahead of the Sheriff

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