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Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
 Series: ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education
 By Patrick H. Sanaghan, Larry Goldstein, and Kathleen D. Gaval Foreword by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

0-275-99408-2/978-0-275-99408-2

Description
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan,Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than one-third of the presidential transitions in higher education are involuntary and have a negative effect on the institution. The authors offer practical guidance in this book, which is designed to provide assistance to presidents, trustees, faculty, and other important stakeholder groups and help them avoid the pitfalls of poorly managed transitions. They discuss how, with proper planning, care, and execution, this presidential passage can be an opportunity for a transitioning president, and those who surround him or her, to write a positive chapter in the campus history. Readers will discover that appropriately addressing the anxiety that accompanies major transitions--for both those joining the institution and those already present--is essential.

Endorsement From Dr. Thomas C. Longin Executive Editor, Planning for Higher Education and Consultant to Governing Boards & Presidents
In Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval's new book, Presidential Transitions, three experienced practitioners in the field of higher education provide us with a carefully crafted, superbly grounded, and eminently practical strategic guide to presidential success in today's challenging environment. They offer a comprehensive, thoughtfully analytical, and wonderfully engaging "handbook for success" for those involved in, supportive of, or somehow aligned with the work of the contemporary college and university presidency. While highlighting the on-going dynamic of a presidential experience - truly, it's not the position; it is the transition - the authors provide prescient guidance. Presidential Transitions is an excellent and important book, and a must read for presidents, aspiring presidents, board members, senior institutional leaders, and for students of higher education desiring to understand the challenges and possibilities of presidential leadership in the 21st Century.
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