Leading from the middle : a case-study approach to academic leadership for associate deans /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2011]
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| Series: | American Council on Education series on higher education (2009)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Academic leadership for associate deans: a case study approach and this book as a toolkit
- Are you ready to visit the dark side: becoming an associate dean
- Stepping up to leadership with your head and your heart
- Working with the realities of your dean's leadership and management style
- Changing behavior in an atmosphere of no accountability
- Something old, something new: working with department chairs and the faculty as an associate dean-- Communicating effectively: say what you mean and mean what you say
- Dealing with conflict between and within units
- Trouble in paradise: dealing with departmental dysfunction acting as a caretaker of a stable unit
- The inmates are running the asylum: getting hostile and unproductive faculty and staff on board
- I know your parents think you are brilliant but you still have to follow the rules: working with students in an atmosphere of entitlement
- Call me when the fire trucks have left: defining and responding to crisis
- Meet and greet: making connections outside your school
- Adapting to change while keeping your sense of humor
- Burning from both ends: drawing boundaries and defending balance
- Moving on: life after being an associate dean
- Lessons learned: distillation of principles of leading from the middle.