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Strategic Leadership Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities
By Richard L. Morrill
ISBN: 0-275-99391-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99391-7
320 pages, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2007
List Price: $59.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Merrill, chancellor and professor of ethics at the University of Richmond, addresses themes at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to challenges such as market realities, reduced state funding, and globalization. Discussing issues related to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education, he places strategic planning in a new conceptual framework centered on interactive leadership and rooted in human agency and values. The book will assist academic professionals, trustees and other stakeholders, and students of higher education to better understand and use strategic planning as an effective process and as a method of collaborative leadership.
    —Reference and Research Book News     November 2007
  • Endorsement From Dr. Thomas C. Longin
    Executive Editor, Planning for Higher Education and consultant to Presidents & Governing Boards:     This book has two great values: first, it may be the best book yet published on "strategic leadership" in general; second it IS the very best book yet published on "strategic leadership" for 21st century higher education. Indeed, given the thorough and wide-ranging nature of Morrill's study, one can only conclude that this is and will be the definitive statement on strategic leadership in higher education for years to come.... Strategic Leadership is a must read for presidents, aspiring presidents, senior institutional leaders, board members, strategic planners of all stripes, and for students of higher education desiring to understand the vagaries of academic culture and the complexities of leadership in the 21st Century.
  • Endorsement From Richard D. Legon
    President, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Washington, D.C.:     Richard Morrill's new work takes the national dialogue on higher education strategy and leadership and puts some meat on the bones. This is a unique time in our country's fundamental relationship with and expectations for higher education. Myriad studies and data clearly demonstrate that the time is "now" for new strategies and responses. This volume provides a detailed roadmap to achieve success through engaged and effective leadership. It is a necessary volume for all who recognize the challenges we face.
Description: Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market realities, reduced state funding, globalization, technology, and a long list of other challenges. Dealing with these issues can immobilize colleges and universities, or it can cause them to become so market-driven that they will sacrifice their own legacy of academic values. This book places strategic planning in a new conceptual framework that is oriented to interactive leadership rooted in human agency and values. It will assist academic professionals, stakeholders such as trustees, and students of higher education to better understand and use strategic planning as an effective process and as a method of collaborative leadership. Morrill combines theory and practice as he addresses the values and beliefs that are the underlying source of conflict in the culture and system of academic decision-making. In sum, the book provides the basic orientation that leads to an emphasis on organizational narratives of identity and aspiration--what strategy processes typically call mission and vision.
LC Card Number: 2007013449
LCC Class: LB2341
Dewey Class: 378
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