Strategic Leadership

Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities

By (author) Richard L. Morrill

Publication date:

30 July 2007

Length of book:

318 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

229x152mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780275993917

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.

Part 1 ISSUES IN LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Chapter 2 The Phenomenon of Leadership
Chapter 3 The Ambiguities and Possibilities of Leadership in Higher Education
Chapter 4 The System and Culture of Academic Decision Making
Part 5 PREPARING FOR STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Chapter 6 Creating and Situating an Integrative Strategy Process
Chapter 7 Strategic Governance: Designing the Mechanisms and Tools of Strategy
Part 8 PRACTICING STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Chapter 9 Integral Strategy: Narratives and Identity in Strategic Leadership
Chapter 10 Mission and Vision: The Heart of Strategic Leadership
Chapter 11 Strategic Position: The External and Internal Contexts
Chapter 12 Strategies: Initiatives, Imperatives, Goals, and Actions
Chapter 13 Strategic Leadership in Context: From Academic Programs to Financial Models
Chapter 14 Implementation: From Strategic Leadership to Strategic Management
Part 15 THE LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Chapter 16 Conflict and Change: The Limits and Possibilities of Strategic Leadership
Chapter 17 Conclusion: The Strategic Integration of Leadership

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.