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Increasing The Number Of Women Administrators In Kinesiology And Beyond: A Proposed Application Of The Transformational Leadership Model, Lynda Ransdell, Sarah Toevs, Jennifer White, Shelley Lucas, Jean Perry, Onie Grosshans, Diane Boothe, Sona Andrews

Shelley Lucas

In higher education in the United States, women are often underrepresented in leadership positions. When women try administration, they face a higher rate of attrition than their male counterparts. Given the lack of women in leadership positions and the failure of the academy to retain women administrators, a group of women administrators and faculty with many collective years of experience in higher education assembled to write this paper. Our writing group consisted of 2 Chairs, 2 Deans, 1 Associate Dean, 2 pre-tenure faculty members, and a Provost, representing four different institutions. The authors of this paper suggest that applying the …