Leadership as service : a new model for higher education in a new century
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Leadership as service : a new model for higher education in a new century
（American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education）
Praeger, 2007
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-147) and index
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Description
This provocative and readable discussion of leadership in higher education argues that leadership is essentially an act of service; that the more responsible the leadership position, the greater the responsibility to serve. Weaving together the Servant Leadership philosophy of Robert Greenleaf with the management principles of Mary Parker Follett, Farnsworth presents a model for 21st-century educational leadership that calls upon college administrators to see themselves as "servants first." He argues that the voices and interests of many of education's key stakeholders-students, employers, and society as a whole-have been marginalized by a consolidation of power in the faculty, requiring a bold new approach to leadership that refocuses service to these important, but underrepresented constituents.
Table of Contents
3 The Need for New Leadership 4 Leadership as a Quest to Serve 5 Lessons from the Wisdom Traditions 6 Shaping a Syncretic Leadership 7 Shaping the Vision 8 Hearing Every Voice 9 Renewing the Social Contract 10 Empowering Toward Service 11 Redesigning Higher Education 12 Trust and Consensus during Change 13 Organizing for Service 14 Leading as Learning 15 Barriers to Leadership as Service 16 Leadership for a New Century 17 Bibliography 18 Index
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