Author Elaine Maimon, a Philadelphia-based author and consultant, draws on a half century of experience in higher education, with twenty-four years at the helm of three public universities: Arizona State University West Campus, University of Alaska-Anchorage, Governors State University. She sees the future of democracy at stake in how we educate and support New Majority students: first-generation, students of color, adults, and military veterans.
Leading Academic Change
In a time of instability and disruption, how do we develop leadership characteristics that will bring about positive, meaningful change?
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Leading Academic Change uses higher education as its prime example. And no doubt colleges and universities require fundamental, cultural change in the post-COVID world. But the book has wider implications for leading the changes necessary for growth and advancement in the third decade of the twenty-first century.
Leading Academic Change
Vision, Strategy, Transformation
Leading Academic Change addresses the following concepts:
- •Transformational rather than transactional leadership
- • Combining focus with peripheral vision
- • Recognizing and building on people’s strengths
- • Making decisions based on principle
- • Moving from managing to leading
- • Braiding together equity and quality
- • Breaking down exclusive social hierarchies that paralyze change
- • Establishing trust and adapting to local contexts
By: Elaine Maimon
Foreword by: Carol Geary Schneider
ISBN10: 1620365677
ISBN13: 9781620365670
Copyright: 2018
Written by a sitting college president who has presided over transformative change at a state university, this book takes on the big questions and issues of change and change management, what needs to be done and how to do it. Writing in a highly accessible style, the author recommends changes for higher education such as the reallocation of resources to support full-time faculty members in foundation- level courses, navigable pathways from community college to the university, infusion rather than proliferation of courses, and the role of state universities in countering the disappearance of the middle class. The book describes how these changes can be made, as well as why we must make them if our society is to thrive in the twenty-first century.
