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Leadership as Service A New Model for Higher Education in a New Century
By Kent A. Farnsworth
ISBN: 0-275-99092-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99092-3
176 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2006
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Farnsworth, a former college president, argues that leadership in higher education is an act of service and presents a model based on the ideas of Robert Greenleaf and Mary Parker Follett. He describes their concepts of servant leadership and dynamic administration, melding them into a theory of syncretic leadership. Each chapter illustrates one lesson, with topics relating to the philosophies of Eastern thinkers, creating a vision, effective listening, power, redesigning higher education, organizational structure, and challenges.
    —Reference & Research Book News     May 2007
  • Endorsement From George R. Boggs
    President and CEO
    American Association of Community Colleges:     Kent Farnsworth presents a compelling case for the need to change higher education in America while pointing out the significant obstacles that today's leaders face. He draws upon his own experience and observations as a successful leader as well as the wisdom of some of history's most inspirational leaders and recognized organizational and leadership authorities to describe how today's college and university leaders can and must institutionalize change. According to Farnsworth, leaders can be effective if they practice a version of informed "servant leadership" that builds trust, is inclusive, is empowering, is visionary, and yet decisive. Leadership As Service: A New Model For Higher Education In A New Century is a valuable contribution to the examination of effective leadership, and I highly recommend it to college and university leaders, trustees who employ and support them, and those who study leadership.
  • Endorsement From Larry C. Spears
    President and CEO
    The Greenleaf Center:     Leadership as Service is an important work which breaks new ground in the area of servant-leadership and higher education. In the tradition of Robert K. Greenleaf and Parker Palmer, Kent Farnsworth's book contains powerful insights into the nature of learning, leading, and serving others.
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, Kent 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. Farnsworth argues that college and universities have yielded too much power to special interests within the academy. The result has been a shift in resources to elaborate facilities and overblown graduate and research agendas, eroding the rigor and integrity of the undergraduate curriculum. Leadership as Service outlines a new, service-driven agenda of higher education and describes the characteristics of those who will successfully lead in the new century.
LC Card Number: 2006032831
LCC Class: LB2341
Dewey Class: 378
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