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Transforming Leadership Pathways For Humanities Professionals In Higher Education, Roze Hentschell, Catherine E. Thomas

Navigating Careers in Higher Education Series

Transforming Leadership Pathways for Humanities Professionals in Higher Education includes thirteen essays from a variety of contributors investigating how humanities professionals grapple with the opportunities and challenges of leadership positions. Written by insiders sharing their lived experience, this collection provides an authentic look at the multiple roles humanities specialists play, as well as offers strategies for professional growth, sustenance, and satisfaction. The collection also considers the relationship between disciplinary areas of study, academic training, and the valuable skill sets and habits of mind that serve higher education leaders.

While Transforming Leadership Pathways emphasizes that a leadership route in higher education …

Who's There For The Directors?, Mark K. Nagasawa

Straus Center for Young Children & Families

This third report from the Listening to Teachers study’s second year focuses on a subsample of early childhood program leaders (n=113) in NYC. Among the key findings in this report:

• Support from supervisors lowered the odds of survey participants reporting potential burnout.
• However, the odds of program leaders reporting potential burnout were 1.7 times higher than for other respondents.
• The odds of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) respondents being in leadership roles were significantly less than their white colleagues.

While this study's self-selected sample makes these findings ungeneralizable, they do raise the critically important question, What is …

Thrive: Success Strategies For The Modern-Day Faculty Member, Linda M. Love, Audrey E. Nelson, Lea Pounds, Tammy Webster, Sarah B. Mcbrien, Sara E. Bills, University Of Nebraska Medical Center Faculty Development, Heidi Keeler, Melissa Diers, Tiann Colwell, Beth Culross, Kirsten Curtis, Missy Ofe Fleck, Susan Wilhelm, Gregory Bennett, Analisa Mcmillan, Kristen Cook, Jessica Downes, Faye L. Haggar, Geoffrey Talmon, Tanya M. Custer, Russell Buzalko, Judy Neville, Ron Shope, Kelly Swoboda, Suhasini Kotcherlakota, Jennifer Larsen, Abbey Fingeret, Sheila Ellis, Chad Branecki, Jasmine Riviere Marcelin, Martina A. Clarke, Teresa L. Hartman, Michael Kozak, Steven P. Wengel, Yun Saksena, Jeffrey P. Gold, Rowen K. Zetterman, Kim Michael, Kate Wampler, Elizabeth Beam, Victoria Kennel, Sasha K. Shillcutt, H. Dele Davies, Kari Simonsen, Katherine Bravo, Jennifer K. Kallio, T.J. Welniak, Stacy Werner, Betsy J. Becker

Books: Faculty Development

The THRIVE collection is intended to help faculty thrive in their roles as educators, scholars, researchers, and clinicians. Each section contains a variety of thought-provoking topics that are designed to be easily digested, guide personal reflection, and put into action. Please use the THRIVE collection to help:

• Individuals study topics on their own, whenever and wherever they want
• Peer-mentoring or other learning communities study topics in small groups
• Leaders and planners strategically insert faculty development into existing meetings

Faculty identify campus experts for additional learning, grand rounds, etc. If you have questions or want additional information on a topic, simply …

Entry-Level To Leader, Jeannie Black

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

This poster explores the concept of building leadership skills in progression from entry-level to leader-level. Each person starts at the entry-level (beginning) and continues building their skillset which sometimes results in a manager or leader. Day (2006) said there are four leadership models: the strong individual, the hierarchy, the pipeline, and collective practices. Day (2000) also noted that there is a difference between leader development and leadership development.Leader development focused on individual while leadership development focused on social capital.

Leveraging Paradoxical Tensions:​ ​​An Ethnographic Case Study Of A Private Nonprofit U.S Higher Education Institution, Patrick A. Bennett

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Private nonprofit higher education within the United States has experienced unprecedented disruption and discontinuous change over the last several decades. To make matters more difficult, institutions that make up this segment of higher education are not known for their flexibility and adaptability. Recent studies suggest that the benefits and attributes of unit-level ambidexterity help to provide balance between paradoxical tensions and that these coexisting pressures can create strategic agility for organizations. This ethnographic case study describes how the culture-sharing senior leadership team of a private nonprofit U.S. institution of higher education leverages tensions to create strategic agility. The results of …

Girls On The Run: Longitudinal Findinds Inform Transformational Learning And Leadership, Girls On The Run Of Central Ohio

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Afterschool programs have the potential to teach positive social, psychological, and physical skills to youth participants, but these benefits are not an automatic consequence of mere participation. Evidence-based research evaluating programs is necessary to determine magnitude of impact and explanations for positive season-long change. This study used a rigorous approach to evaluate the effectiveness of Girls on the Run on youth development, including competence, confidence, connection, character, caring (5Cs), and health outcomes. Because Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a positive youth development program, it was also important to assess if life skills were learned and transferred to other social …

The Brain As Ceo: Teaching Neuroleadership, Ray Forbes

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Recent advances in the brain sciences have opened a window of opportunity for organizational leadership. For example, neuroscientists have determined that the prefrontal cortex of the brain is closely associated with the highest orders of human functioning such as planning, decision-making, control of attention and self-monitoring. This area of grey matter has also become a vivid metaphor for the primary executive or leadership role in business, the Chief Executive Officer or CEO. The burgeoning discipline of Neuroleadership attempts to apply the findings of relevant brain research to the field of leadership studies. A primary educational challenge is how to best …

The Leader As Servant: Followership To Leadership, Timothy F. Reymann

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

A paradigm change has been occurring in leadership[p theory over the last 40 years since Servant Leadership was introduced in the 1970's by Robert Greenleaf. For many years academia looked away from including this theory as foundational. In recent years the theory has gained strong attention in academic journals, textbooks and course instruction. Pivotal to the underpinnings of this theory is the concept of the leader as a developer of his or her followers. The challenge for any leader is how to mentor, develop and coach his or her followers through leadership practices that truly develop others. The practice of …

Fostering Women’S Leadership In The Classroom, Brandy Bagar-Fraley

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Women in college suffer from what Elizabeth J. Allen and Mary Madden refer to as “the chilly classroom”: a set of subtle behaviors from both faculty and students that silence and marginalize women in the classroom and prohibit them from developing leadership skills (2006). Without realizing it, faculty can unwittingly impede the development of leadership skills in women.

Leading Through Chaos To Survive Market Instability Among​ Community And Technical Colleges In West Virginia, Davida Wolfe

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

The problem is the West Virginia's community and technical colleges (CTCs) are experiencing a decline in enrollment. Therefore, higher education institutions are learning that they need to become more adaptable to the unpredictability and uncertainty when the institution encounters a decline in student enrollment. West Virginia’s CTCs appear to have seen a decrease in student enrollment of 19.4 percent from 2012 to 2016 to a 4.7 percent from 2015 to 2016. Chaos Theory and the complexity can provide a unique perspective to understanding the present educational system, which includes the methods and approach to how each institution is ready to …

Becoming An Expert Instructional Designer, Rob L. Wood

Scholars Showcase 2018: Innovations in Leadership and Learning

Instructional design requires practitioners to integrate best practices, use appropriate tools, and strategically apply current and emerging technologies to meet clients’ and organizations’ needs. Many practitioners achieve high levels of technical expertise in this way. However, the author of this poster suggests that, to become a leader in instructional design, practitioners must develop as experts through a process of acquiring horizontal expertise via two concepts described by Engeström, Engeström, & Kärkkäinen (1995). Polycontextuality describes how experts accomplish multiple simultaneous tasks within multiple communities of practices. Boundary crossing occurs when two different activities are linked together.

Building Leaders For The 21st Century, Kathy Krendl

Leadership Hour at Otterbein University

What key elements are needed to build leaders for today's ever changing, global world? Leaders today need to know themselves and their strengths and be very adaptable to change. Join us to discover more ways to mentor and coach tomorrow's leaders.

Leadership For Sustainability And Peace: Responding To The Wicked Challenges Of The Future, Rian Satterwhite, Whitney Mcintyre Miller, Kate Sheridan

Education Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"In the past century our understanding of leadership has changed as the contexts in which leadership occurs evolve. Today, constructs of leadership that do not incorporate emergent concepts such as systems thinking no longer match the realities of the world in which it is exercised and the challenges it seeks to address. The challenges we face as a global community have increased in complexity, size, scope, and consequence. As a result of this contextual evolution, our definition of effective leadership is evolving as well."

An Implementation Evaluation Of The Let Me Learn® Process: Leadership Practices And Cultural Conditions That Support Implementation And Sustainability, Lisa Webb, Anna Hebb, Sarah Morris

Graduate Research Posters

In the 20 years since its development, the Let Me Learn Process^® has been implemented in over 75 grade pre-Kindergarten through 12 schools in the United States. The Let Me Learn Process^® is based on research in the field of neuroscience which explores the interface between the brain and the mind as it relates to learning (Bruer, 1997; Johnston, 2013). Throughout the twenty-year history of implementation, however, there has been no established approach to achieving implementation and sustainability of the Let Me Learn Process^®. The client for this implementation evaluation was interested in better understanding the …

A Phenomenological Study Of Women Leaders In Adventist Higher Education Institutions, Nadine Anna Joseph

Human Subject Research Archive

Using purposive sampling techniques, this phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of 6 women who served as presidents of Adventist Higher Education Institutions, to uncover how they were able to become one of the few women presidents. Data was collected through interviews, observations/shadowing, field notes/researcher’s journal, the Leadership Practice Inventory–Self by Kouzes and Posner (1995), demographic survey sheet, and curriculum vitae. The findings revealed that the participants had positive experiences with parents, teachers, role models, and male mentors who influenced their leadership development. Interestingly, they did not struggle to earn the positions as presidents but rather felt led by God …

Educational Leadership Newsletter May 2014, Educational Leadership Department, University Of Southern Maine

Educational Leadership Newsletters

Inside the issue:

• From the Chair: Classroom Assessment, the Arts, and Leadership
• Awards
• Southern Maine Partnership Update
• Thinking About Internship?
• Leadership Symposium
• Advising Questions?
• Fall 2014 Schedule

This Place: Conversations With The Provost About Leadership And Change, Edward S. Macias

Books and Monographs

Professor Heather Corcoran invited faculty members across Washington University to interview Provost Edward S. Macias about key issues in higher education, including diversity and interdisciplinary research, as he concluded 25 years of leadership to the university. This book, published in 2013, is an archive of the interviews.

At A Crossroads: The Educational Leadership Professoriate In The 21st Century, Martha M. Mccarthy

Faculty Pub Night

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