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Changing Of The Guard In Community Colleges: The Role Of Leadership Development, Pamela L. Eddy

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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 …