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Special Issues in Chairing Academic Departments
Wiley 2011; US$ 14.95Chairing an academic department comes with a multitude of responsibilities in a wide variety of areas. As a new department chair, you immediately confront many of the basics of academic leadership: managing budgets, supporting faculty, resolving conflict, and facilitating change, to name a few of the topics covered in The Essentials for New Department... more...
Universities in Change
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from around the world, this book argues that institutions... more...
The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 29.00Newly appointed academic managers are often unsure how to effectively manage their department's fiscal affairs. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management is specifically designed for administrators who need guidance for managing the fiscal resources of a department or unit. Using this book, administrators... more...
Managing Educational Development Projects
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 68.95Educational development is a major issue for higher education institutions (HEIs). It constitutes a major part of the research work of many academics. This practical volume, written by experienced practitioners in the field, is a guide to successfully managing an educational development project. more...
Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice, Volume II
Stylus Publishing 2007; US$ 31.99Now available in paperback, this two-volume work is intended to help readers develop powerful new ways of thinking about organizational principles, and apply them to policy-making and management in colleges and universities.The book is written with two audiences in mind: administrative and faculty leaders in institutions of higher learning, and students... more...
Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice, Volume I
Stylus Publishing 2007; US$ 31.99Now available in paperback, this two-volume work is intended to help readers develop powerful new ways of thinking about organizational principles, and apply them to policy-making and management in colleges and universities.The book is written with two audiences in mind: administrative and faculty leaders in institutions of higher learning, and students... more...
Leadership Legacy Moments
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 24.99Most leaders of colleges and universities will take office with accompanying media celebration of their past records and future promise. Each will exit with a legacy. In Leadership Legacy Moments the author reflects upon the ideas, skills, and values that are essential to effective leadership so that a leader leaves behind a student body with great... more...
Codes of Conduct in Academia
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.00Chapters of this issue of New Directions for Higher Education present tenets of codes of conduct for the presidency, academic deans, admissions officers, fund-raising professionals, faculty who teach undergraduate students, and faculty who teach graduate students. The need for such codes of conduct stems from the client-serving role of colleges and... more...
Whose University Is It?
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 30.00A thought-provoking examination of the role of universities in contemporary society more...
Smart Leadership for Higher Education in Difficult Times
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00As the US economy emerges from the severest recession in a generation, large questions regarding its long-term ramifications for higher education remain unanswered. In fact, the harshest effects of the economic downturn are likely ahead as campus leadership focuses on enrollment, affordability and fundraising. This volume of essays examines the challenges... more...









