Rethinking Leadership in a Complex, Multicultural, and Global Environment

New Concepts and Models for Higher Education

Adrianna J. Kezar

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781579222819
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000977684
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

The complexity of the decisions that today's higher education leaders face—as they engage with a diversifying student body, globalization and technological advances—requires embracing new ways of thinking about leadership. This book examines the new theories and concepts of leadership that are described in the multidisciplinary literature on leadership, and are being applied in other sectors—from government to the non-profit and business communities—to explore the implications for leaders and leadership programs in higher education. At a time when the heroic, controlling, and distant leader of the past has given way to a focus on teams, collectives and social change, the contributors to this book ask: What new skills and competencies should leaders and programs be addressing?The recognition of the interdependence of groups within organizations, and between organizations; of cultural and social differences; and of how technology has sped up decision time and connected people across the globe; have changed the nature of leadership as well as made the process more complex and diffuse. This book is addressed to anyone developing institutional, regional or national leadership development programs; to aspiring leaders planning to participate in such programs; and to campus leaders concerned with the development and pipeline of emerging leaders. It will be particularly useful for administrators in faculty development offices who are planning and creating workshops in leadership training, and for staff in human resource offices who offer similar training.Contributors: Laurel Beesemyer; Rozana Carducci; Pamela Eddy; Tricia Bertram Gallant; Lynn Gangone; Cheryl Getz; Jeni Hart; Jerlando F. L. Jackson; Lara Jaime; Adrianna Kezar; Bridget R. McCurtis; Sharon McDade; Robert J. Nash; Elizabeth M. O'Callahan; Sue V. Rosser; Lara Scott.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Revolutionizing Leadership Development: Lessons From Research and Theory
• 2. The HERS Institutes: Revolutionary Leadership Development for Women
• 3. Developing Leaders of Color in Higher Education: Can Contemporary Programs Address Historical Employment Trends?
• 4. Facing Organizational Complexity and Change: A Case-In-Point Approach to Leadership Development
• 5. Creating a New Breed of Academic Leaders from STEM Women Faculty: The National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Program
• 6. Spirituality, Religious Pluralism, and Higher Education Leadership Development
• 7. Leadership Programs for a Family-Friendly Campus
• 8. Creating Faculty Activism and Grassroots Leadership: An Open Letter To Aspiring Activists
• 9. Changing of the Guard in Community Colleges: The Role Of Leadership Development
• 10. Higher Education Leadership Development Programs in the Marketplace
• 11. Reflections on the Leadership Marketplace
• About the Contributors
• Index