Leading Colleges and Universities : Lessons from Higher Education Leaders.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Getting Started -- 1. Becoming a President -- 2. Transition to the Position -- Winning the First Quarter -- Embarking on a Love Affair -- 3. Building a Leadership Team -- Designing a Team for Collective Success -- Balancing Skills and Temperaments on a Leadership Team -- 4 Maintaining Good Relations with the Board -- 5. Developing Relations with Faculty and Staff -- Go Far Together: Creating a Healthy, Inclusive Culture for Faculty and Staff -- Building Strong Ties with Faculty and Staff at Liberal Arts Colleges -- 6. Delegating Authority -- Chancellors and the Delegation of Authority -- Delegation of Presidential Authority and the Unwritten University Constitution -- Part II: Internal Challenges -- 7. Internationalizing the Curriculum and Student Experience -- Linking Internationalization to Mission -- Selling the Idea of Universal Study Abroad -- 8. Complexity and Chicanery in Collegiate Athletics -- Presidential Success and Intercollegiate Athletics -- "That's My Budget Running Up and Down the Field -- 9. Dealing with Claims and Counterclaims of Unwanted Sexual Contact -- 10. The Complexities of Shared Government and Freedom of Speech -- 11. Managing Emergencies -- "Everyone Is a Risk Manager": Lessons from Hurricane Katrina -- Planning for Emergency: Lessons from Virginia Tech -- 12. How Tenuous Is Tenure? -- Faculty Tenure in the Twenty-first Century -- The Fragile Future of Academic Freedom -- Part III: External Challenges -- 13. Working with Elected and Community Officials -- "All Politics Is Local -- Becoming an "Engaged University -- 14. Exercising Institutional Autonomy -- Entrepreneurship in Higher Education -- Mythical Beasts and Real Challenges -- 15. Managing Donor Relations -- Fundraising Is a Relationship, Not a Transaction -- When a Gift Brings Controversy.

16. Dealing with the Changing Landscape of Accreditation -- 17. Litigation or the Threat of Litigation as a Constraint -- 18. Balancing Systemwide Needs with Institutional Autonomy -- Why Public Universities Need Greater Autonomy -- Working the System: Cultivating Personnel Relationships to Optimize University Systems -- Leading a Public Flagship within a State System -- 19. When to Take a Stand on National Policy -- Perspectives from a Supreme Court Case -- Response to the 2017 Executive Order on Refugee and Immigration Policy -- Part IV: Personal Challenges -- 20. Presidents and General Counsels: A Unique Relationship -- 21. Exiting with Grace and ahead of the Sheriff -- Knowing When to Fold 'Em -- Toward a Gracious Conclusion -- Concluding Thoughts -- Contributors -- Index.

Presidents and would-be presidents--as well as boards, search committees, state boards, legislators, and others involved in higher education--will find much helpful guidance in this timely book.

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