Building Academic Leadership Capacity: A Guide to Best Practices

259 Pages·2015·2.47 MB·English

by  Walter H. Gmelch

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building academic
leadership capacity
A Guide to Best Practices
Walter H. Gmelch and Jeffrey L. Buller
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contents
TheAuthors vii
Preface ix
Chapter1 TheCallforAcademicLeadershipDevelopment 1
Chapter2 Strategy 27
Chapter3 Structure 53
Chapter4 Systems 71
Chapter5 Staff 95
Chapter6 Skills 115
Chapter7 Style 141
Chapter8 SharedValues 165
Chapter9 PuttingItAllTogether 185
Appendix:ResourceGuides 201
Index 229
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TheJossey-BassHigherandAdultEducationSeries
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For Val Miskin, Irene Hecht, Mary Lou Higgerson, and
Peter Seldin, our dear colleagues, friends, and
co-conspirators, and for Saeed M. Alamoudi, the
hardest-working man in academic leadership
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the authors
Walter H. Gmelch is one of the leading researchers in the study of
academic leaders in higher education today. Formerly the dean of the
School of Education at the University of San Francisco (2004–2013)
and currently professor of leadership studies, he also served as dean of
the College of Education at Iowa State University and interim dean
of the College of Education, professor, and chair of the Educational
LeadershipandCounselingPsychologyDepartmentatWashingtonState
University. Currently Gmelch also serves as director of the National
CenterfortheStudyofAcademicLeadership.Hehaspublishedovertwo
hundred articles, twenty-seven books and monographs, and numerous
scholarly papers in national and international journals. Gmelch is the
author of three books on leadership with Val Miskin (Chairing an
Academic Department, Leadership Skills for Department Chairs, and
Productivity Teams: Beyond Quality Circles) and two on management
and stress (Coping with Faculty Stress and Beyond Stress to Effective
Management). With Irene W. D. Hecht and Mary Lou Higgerson, he
coauthored The Department Chair as Academic Leader. Recently he
has coauthored four additional books on the deanship: College Deans:
Leading from Within, The Dean’s Balancing Act, The Changing Nature
of the Deanship, and Seasons of a Dean’s Life. With John Schuh, he
coauthoredTheLifeCycleofaDepartmentChair.
Jeffrey L. Buller has served in administrative positions ranging from
departmentchairtovicepresidentforacademicaffairsatadiversegroup
ofinstitutions:LorasCollege,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity,MaryBaldwin
College,andFloridaAtlanticUniversity.HeistheauthorofTheEssential
DepartmentChair:AComprehensiveDeskReference,AcademicLeader-
shipDaybyDay:SmallStepsThatLeadtoGreatSuccess,TheEssential
CollegeProfessor:APracticalGuidetoanAcademicCareer,TheEssential
AcademicDean:APracticalGuidetoCollegeLeadership,BestPracticesin
FacultyEvaluation:APracticalGuideforAcademicLeaders,andPositive
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viii theauthors
Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Mak-
ingaDifference.Bullerhasalsowrittenmorethantwohundredarticles
on Greek and Latin literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera,
andcollegeadministration.From2003to2005,heservedastheprincipal
English-languagelecturerattheInternationalWagnerFestivalinBayreuth,
Germany.Morerecently,hehasbeenactiveasaconsultanttotheMinistry
ofHigherEducationinSaudiArabia,whereheisassistingwiththecreation
of a kingdom-wide Academic Leadership Center. Along with Robert E.
Cipriano,BullerisaseniorpartnerinATLAS:AcademicTraining,Leader-
ship,andAssessmentServices,throughwhichhehaspresentednumerous
trainingworkshopsondevelopingleadershipinhighereducation.