The view from the helm leading the American university during an era of change /
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- The path to the presidency
- The leaders and best
- Institutional saga
- The Michigan saga
- A heritage of leadership
- Michigan's character as a trailblazer
- The role of institutional saga in presidential leadership
- The "what," "how," and "who" of the university presidency
- The path to the presidency
- Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor; rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief . . . and university president
- The academic leadership ladder
- The path to the Michigan White House
- On to Michigan
- Trapped in the gravitational pull of academic administration
- On the brink
- The presidential search
- The search process
- The presidential search : a victim's perspective
- A postmortem
- Some advice for presidential search committees and university governing boards
- Some advice for candidates for university presidencies
- So what are we supposed to do now?
- Presidential leadership
- Presidential leadership
- The elements of presidential leadership
- Several unique aspects of university leadership
- The many styles and philosophies of presidential leadership
- Adapting leadership styles to the times and the institution
- A matter of personal style
- Movers and shakers, pushers and coasters: the impact of the presidency
- Leadership for a time of change
- Executive leadership
- The executive officer team
- Go downtown and get the money
- Bricks and mortar
- Crisis management
- The challenges of executive leadership
- Academic leadership
- The academic clockwork
- Academic leadership
- Faculty quality
- Selection and recruitment of academic leadership
- Tinkering with time bombs
- The challenges to academic leadership by the president
- Political leadership
- Growing up in a rough neighborhood
- Defending the university
- The loyal (and sometimes not so loyal) opposition
- The president and the governing board
- The broader political agenda of the university and the university presidency
- The hazards of political leadership
- Moral leadership
- The challenges to moral leadership
- Social diversity and academic excellence
- Student affairs
- Institutional integrity
- The bully pulpit
- Pastoral care
- Personal traits and traps
- Strategic leadership
- The approach
- The action plan
- Lessons learned and the growing concern
- Institutional transformation
- Experiments and ventures
- More lessons learned: the challenges of transformation
- The university president: an endangered species?
- Life as a university president
- The president's spouse
- The hired help
- A turn about the university calendar
- Lifestyles of the rich and famous
- On the road
- A matter of style
- Always some doubts
- Tilting with windmills
- Windmill no. 1: the privately supported public university
- Windmill no. 2: college sports
- Windmill no. 3: university governance
- The importance of fighting losing battles
- The endgame
- Survival instinct
- Putting it all on the line
- Wear and tear
- The two-minute warning
- Taking stock
- Fading away
- Years after a decade at the helm
- Whence and whither the university
- Some final thoughts on the university presidency
- Notes.