Junctures in Women's Leadership

Higher Education

Carmen Twillie Ambar, Carol T. Christ, Michele Ozumba

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780813586212
  9780813586229
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813586236
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Leadership

Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education illuminates the careers of twelve women leaders whose experiences reveal the complexities of contemporary academic leadership through the intersection of gender, race, and institutional culture. The chapters combine interviews and research to create distinct case studies that identify the obstacles that challenged each woman's leadership, and the strategies deployed to bring about resolution. The research presented in this volume reveals not only theoretical factors of academic leadership, but also real time dynamics that give the reader deeper insights into the multiple stakeholders and situations that require nimble, relationship-based leadership, in addition to intellectual competency. With chapters written by many of today's leading women in higher education, this book brings into sharp focus the unique attributes of women leaders in the academy and adds a new dimension of analysis to the field of women's leadership studies.Women leaders interviewed in this volume includeBernice Sandler, Juliet Villarreal García, and Johnnetta Betsch Cole.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword to the Series
• New Foreword to the Series
• Preface
• Too Strong for a Woman: Bernice Sandler and the Birth of Title IX
• Ruth Simmons
• Nancy Cantor: An Insider with Outsider Values
• Nannerl Keohane and the Women’s Initiative at Duke University
• Molly Corbett Broad
• Reimagining Women’s Education: Jill Ker Conway, Smith College, and the Ada Comstock Scholars Program
• Intellectual Inquiry and Social Activism: Sister President Johnnetta Betsch Cole
• Hanna Holborn Gray and Graduate Education at the University of Chicago
• Decolonializing across Broadway: The Barnard Presidency of Judith R. Shapiro
• President Regina Peruggi of Kingsborough Community College: Transformative Leadership and Student Success
• The Reinventor: Pat McGuire and the Transformation of Trinity Washington University
• In Pursuit of Educational Access: Juliet García Leading from within the Bureaucracy, against the Grain
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index