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.
Preface, by Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Gordon Gee, and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 1. Becoming a President, by William Kirwan 2. Transition to the Position, by James P. Clements and Michael Young 3. Leadership team, by Mildred Garcia and Marvin Krislov 4. Maintaining a good relations with the board, by Lawrence S. Bacow 5. Developing relations with faculty and staff, by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III and A. Lee Fritschler 6. Knowing how and when to delegate and the extent to which delegating absolves leaders, by Holden Thorp and Mark Yudof 7. When and how to participate in curricular decisions, by Jane McAvliffe and Mark Ungar 8. Complexity and chicanery in collegiate athletics, by Robert Donaldson, Gerald B. Kauvar, and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 9. Title IX, by Allen Sessoms 10. The complex issues surrounding freedom of speech, by Ben Trachtenberg 11. What you need to know about emergency management, by Scott Cowen and Charles Steger 12. How tenuous is tenure, by Ann Weaver Hart and Ben Nelson 13. Working with elected and community officials, by Christopher B. Howard and Robert Scott 14. Institutional autonomy, by William R. Harvey and John Ebersole 15. Managing donor relations, by Georgia Nugent and Angel Cabrera 16. How to deal with changing forms of accreditation, by Judith Eaton 17. Litigation or the threat of litigation as a constraint, by John M. McCardell 18. Balancing system-wide needs with institutional autonomy, by Rebecca Blank, Nancy Zimpher, and R. Bowen Loftin 19. When to take a stand on national policy, by Mary S. Coleman and Lee Bollinger 20. Presidents and general counsels, by Eduardo Padron 21. Exiting with grace and ahead of the sheriff, by Richard Joel and Richard Levin Concluding Thoughts, by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon Gee Aptitude test for aspiring presidents, by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon Gee Index
""This volume of brief essays by three dozen experienced presidents and other leaders in higher education is intended to provide candid reflections and examples from successful practitioners, illustrative of how they faced the many challenges that confront college and university presidents today.""
