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1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Series |
CODESRIA Book Series |
| Contents |
1. Immersion into university leadership -- 2. Cultural and religious foundations -- 3. Foundations for future academic and leadership pursuits -- 4. First job placement -- 5. University education and the foundations of academic leadership -- 6. Growth as an academic leader and researcher -- 7. The triple balancing act : academics, family and university administration -- 8. Engagements with academic leadership at the grassroots -- 9. A surprise appointment to the Office of Deputy College Principal -- 10. Elevation of the university college into a university -- 11. Tenure as vice-chancellor -- 12. Vice-chancellorship and networking for university development -- 13. University leadership and the donor community -- 14. University leadership and quality of academic programmes -- 15. Scholarship and academic community service -- 16. Exiting university administration -- 17. Leadership in the corporate world -- 18. Back to the ivory tower -- 19. Some reflections on leadership and governance of higher education institutions |
| Summary |
Scholars, especially those interested in understanding how leadership has inhibited academic freedom and hindered effectiveness of institutions of higher learning have for long been engaged by the very important manner in which governance and leadership of higher education institutions in Africa is constituted and managed. The fact that there has been a dearth of work based on the experiences of those who have served as university leaders has created a major gap. Questions remain on how leaders of higher education institutions are identified, how they are prepared, the personal predispositions that individuals bring to the exercise of such positions and their personal experiences regarding what energizes or inhibits the performance of their work. Until recently, presidents in most African countries served as chancellors of public universities, identification of those who served as university leaders was largely a political process. But much has changed, with most countries establishing oversight bodies and the overall governance of higher education institutions divorced from the day-to-day political processes. Trails in Academic and Administrative Leadership in Kenya provides a personal account of the experiences in higher education leadership from an individual whose tenure in leadership straddled the two eras. In this book, Prof. Michieka provides an account of how his early education prepared him for roles in academic and institutional leadership in Kenya. The author shares his experiences on the trails he had to navigate as an academic, a vice-chancellor and a chairperson of university council at a time when universities in Kenya were transiting from extreme government administrative control to a greater degree of operational autonomy. Readers will find in this work thought-provoking insights on how leaders of higher education institutions in Kenya have had to balance between demands of the political system and the need to safeguard academic traditions in the everyday management of the institutions |
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College administrators -- Kenya -- Biography
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Agriculturists -- Kenya -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators
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Agriculturists
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College administrators
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Kenya
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
2869787340 |
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9782869787346 |
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