Acute Crisis Leadership in Higher Education

Lessons from the Pandemic

Gabriela Cornejo Weaver, Kara M. Rabbitt, Suzanne Wilson Summers, Rhonda Phillips, Kristi N. Hottenstein, Juanita M. Cole, Gabriela Cornejo Weaver, Kara M. Rabbitt, Suzanne Wilson Summers, Rhonda Phillips, Kristi N. Hottenstein, Juanita M. Cole

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032145549
• eBook ISBN: 9781000736724
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This book explores higher education leadership during times of extreme pressures and limited, changing information.

Organized around different functional units in higher education institutions, chapters describe the ways in which campus communities were affected by and responded to the early pandemic crisis. By unpacking observations of real leaders from American institutions of higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides lessons learned and takeaway strategies for complex decision-making during a crisis. This edited collection explores the unique moment when leaders and teams must make, implement, and adjust plans rapidly to assure delivery of their missions, while still addressing the needs of students, parents, employees, and stakeholders.

Shining a bright light on decision-making in the early acute stage of a crisis, this book prepares higher education educators to be effective leaders and successful decision-makers.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview: ‘Embedded’ Across the Higher Education Landscape
• Part I Centrality of the Institutional Mission
• Part II Community and Operations
• Part III Planning and Preparation for a Post-COVID World
• Index