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Trust In Academia: How Chief Academic Officers Build And Maintain Faculty Trust, Marc A. Smithers
Trust In Academia: How Chief Academic Officers Build And Maintain Faculty Trust, Marc A. Smithers
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
As the role of academic leadership has grown more complex, particularly as leaders are increasingly tasked with leading educational innovation initiatives, building faculty trust has become an essential task for chief academic officers (CAOs). Due to the general lack of research into this role, though, little is known about how they understand and approach building faculty trust. The purpose of this qualitative, single, holistic case study was to understand how executive academic administrators at private colleges approach building and maintaining trust with their faculty in general and also through educational innovation and what specific challenges they have identified in these …
Transformational Leadership In Higher Education Programs, Joshua L. Howell, Kim E. Bullington, Dennis E. Gregory, Mitchell R. Williams, William L. Nuckols
Transformational Leadership In Higher Education Programs, Joshua L. Howell, Kim E. Bullington, Dennis E. Gregory, Mitchell R. Williams, William L. Nuckols
Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications
The current mixed-method study investigates transformational leadership qualities through higher education doctoral programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This study relies on three data points: interviews with graduate program directors of higher education doctoral programs (whether PhD or EdD), a program evaluation of programs, and Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5x™) survey results from students within said programs. Data were collected from the five public universities that offer higher education doctoral programs within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Students completed a self-rating using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5x™) and then were peer-rated by colleagues to strengthen the validity of the study. Additionally, themes …