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1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Series |
Diversity in higher education, 1479-3644 ; v. 5 |
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Diversity in higher education ; v. 5
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| Contents |
Cover -- Lessons in Leadership: Executive Leadership Programs for Advancing Diversity in Higher Education -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Part I: Hidden Springboard: The Importance of Leadership Programs -- Why Leadership Programs Matter? -- Notes -- Latino Demographic and Institutional Issues in Higher Education Implications for Leadership Development -- The Contemporary Context -- I. Demographic Overview -- Age, Sex, and Status Characteristics -- Economic Characteristics -- Education Characteristics -- II. Latino Leadership in Higher Education: Persisting Challenges -- Rationality, Efficiency, and Organizational Adaptation -- Institutional Theory and Normative Contexts -- Dilemmas of the Minority Public Administrator -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Experiences of Presidents of Color: When Perceptions Challenge Reality -- Bias Experienced while a Sitting President -- Gender Matters -- Nature of Bias -- Frequency of Bias -- Location of Bias -- Sources of Discrimination -- Actions or Policies that Surfaced Bias -- Strategies to Ameliorate Bias -- Targets of Bias, Their Race and Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- African American Leadership in Higher Education -- Introduction -- Scope of the Study -- The Survey -- Analysis of Survey Results -- Participants Profile -- Leadership Philosophy -- The Interview -- Leadership Preparation Programs -- Kellogg NAFEO MSI Leadership Program -- Executive Leadership Summit -- Participant Responses to Leadership Programs -- Personal Leadership Program Experience -- Comparisons of Programs -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Part II: The First Wave: Traditional Leadership Programs -- American Council on Education Fellows Program: Celebrating 40 Years of Leadership Development in Higher Education -- Origins and Development -- The Fellows Program Today: Learning Leadership -- The Program: A Year of Choices -- The Mentoring Relationships -- The Curriculum -- The Relationship Participants: Benefits for Nominators, Mentors, and Fellows -- The Nominators -- The Mentors -- The Fellows -- The Selection Process -- Outcomes -- ''Once a Fellow, Always a Fellow'' -- Changes Over the Decades -- Collaborations -- Looking Ahead -- References -- The Harvard Institutes for Higher Education: Thirty-Five Years of Fostering Leadership Development for Administrators of Color -- The Harvard Institutes for Higher Education: An Historical Overview -- Birth of the First Higher Education Leadership Institute -- Addressing the Needs of a New Higher Education Audience: The Creation of MLE -- Bringing Leadership Training to the Middle Management Ranks: Creating MDP -- Adding Another Piece to the Leadership Development Puzzle: Creation of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents -- Serving the needs of Administrators of Color -- The Bush-Hewlett Fellowship Program -- The Leadership Development Initiative and Tribal College Leadership Development Project --tidti |
| Summary |
A largely unseen phenomenon is shaping the direction of higher education today: the growth of leadership programs. These programs are hidden ladders that help the talented move up toward university presidencies. Their number and importance are rapidly increasing, and they will more and more determine who makes decisions in higher education. We need to know more about them. "Lessons in Leadership" is the first book to address them directly, highlighting their histories and achievements. In it, the directors of most major programs in the country describe their focus, curriculum, and participants' reactions. The book especially spotlights programs aimed at minorities, since they stand to benefit most from them and since their participation will likely have the greatest impact on U.S. higher education. This volume has three sections: Hidden Springboard - The Importance of Leadership Programs; The First Wave - Traditional Leadership Programs; and, The New Leaders - Programs Focused Entirely on Minorities. The first analyzes the rapid demographic changes occurring in American society and their consequences for higher education. The second looks at two of the major players in higher education leadership and describes the changes in the programs over the years. The third focuses on the latest entrants: programs created in part because of the lack of diversity in the traditional offerings. Although the new programs share many features with their older brothers, they provide special perspective on the challenges facing minority administrators in higher education. Leadership programs are an intriguing, important, half-concealed force in higher education today. "Lessons in Leadership" reveals them to a wider public |
| Analysis |
Electronic books |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Educational leadership -- United States.
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Leadership -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Leadership -- United States.
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Minorities -- Education -- United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
León, David J. (David Jess)
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| ISBN |
0080461573 (electronic bk.) |
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1849508151 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080461571 (electronic bk.) |
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9781849508155 (electronic bk.) |
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