Twenty-six essays, previously published in The Department advisor , a national quarterly newsletter addressed to department chairpersons, deal with the contemporary problems and topics facing the academic chair. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Enhancing Department Leadership

Education & Teaching

Bennett, John B.

Figuli, David J.

Schools & Teaching

Amer Council on Education

Managing the Academic Enterprise: Case Studies for Deans and Provosts (AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION/ORYX PRESS SERIES ON HIGHER EDUCATION)

Ehrle, Elwood B.

Rational Thinking: A Study In Basic Logic

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Rational Thinking: A Study in Basic Logic

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics, and Spirituality

In this profound look at the academy, John Bennett reminds us that our leadership decisions always presuppose our philosophies of life and that understanding precedes practice. How we understand the communities we lead informs the many practical judgments we make about directions to take, structures to create, processes to initiate, and values to uphold. Bennett argues that faculty may understand their departments or institutions in one of two ways: as simply aggregations of individuals or as communities of intertwined persons. From these views, two different leadership values and positions emerge. The first disposes us toward seeing academic conflict as inevitable and elevates heroic leadership styles where power is understood in terms of advancing one agenda over competitors. The second underwrites leadership as supposing openness to others and emphasizes the vital contributions that can follow. By providing specific illustrations of the two modes of leadership and the nature of hospitality and openness, Academic Life presents a strong platform from which to build a rich and rewarding academic community. Contents include: The nature of insistent individualism Why the prevalence of insistent individualism? Hospitality as an essential virtue Self, others, institutions, and the common good Conversation as an essential metaphor The uses of conversation Community and covenant Engaged, but not heroic, leadership

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Wipf and Stock

Managing the Academic Enterprise: Case Studies for Deans and Provosts (American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

John Bennett offers a provocative and tightly knit argument on ethics in higher education. He examines the current condition of faculty isolation and organizational fragmentation, which he believes has led to a penchant for insistent individualism at many institutions of higher learning. Bennett presents a philosophical model that reflects the academy in its current state, where the focus is on private interests and promotion, and then offers an engaging alternative.

Collegial Professionalism: The Academy, Individualism, And The Common Good (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

Oryx Pr

In this profound look at the academy, John Bennett reminds us that our leadership decisions always presuppose our philosophies of life and that understanding precedes practice. How we understand the communities we lead informs the many practical judgments we make about directions to take, structures to create, processes to initiate, and values to uphold.
Bennett argues that faculty may understand their departments or institutions in one of two ways: as simply aggregations of individuals or as communities of intertwined persons. From these views, two different leadership values and positions emerge.
The first disposes us toward seeing academic conflict as inevitable and elevates heroic leadership styles where power is understood in terms of advancing one agenda over competitors. The second underwrites leadership as supporting openness to others and emphasizes the vital contributions that can follow.
By providing specific illustrations of the two modes of leadership and the nature of hospitality and openness, Academic Life presents a strong platform from which to build a rich and rewarding academic community.
Contents include: • The nature of insistent individualism • Why the prevalence of insistent individualism? • Hospitality as an essential virtue • Self, others, institutions, and the common good • Conversation as an essential metaphor • The uses of conversation • Community and covenant • Engaged, but not heroic, leadership

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Anker Pub Co.

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