Managing Colleges and Universities: Issues for Leadership

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Hoffman and Summers provide both a conceptual framework and practical approaches relevant to leadership issues in higher education. This book offers solutions for those in leadership positions or those anticipating a position in higher education. It focuses on everyday operational problems and will provide the current or future reader with guidelines for action. Higher education leaders must have both a sense of the past and a vision of the future. The world is changing rapidly and these changes will have an inevitable and profound impact on higher education. Institutions that fail to respond to the trends taking place around them will not likely survive with significance very far into the new millennium. This book offers help in making the transition from traditional manager/administrator to a valued leader in higher education.

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.,."a useful guide for developing the needed leadership....The presentation is concise, provides the essence of three decades of evolution in labor management relations, and reflects on the significance of an emerging "win-win" philosophy....Leadership is a paradox--it is both constant and changing. Educators seeking to use its power or create environments conducive to its growth would be wise to use the Hoffman/Summers collection as a resouce."-Community College Journal of Research and Practice
...a useful guide for developing the needed leadership....The presentation is concise, provides the essence of three decades of evolution in labor management relations, and reflects on the significance of an emerging "win-win" philosophy....Leadership is a paradox--it is both constant and changing. Educators seeking to use its power or create environments conducive to its growth would be wise to use the Hoffman/Summers collection as a resouce.-Community College Journal of Research and Practice
..."a useful guide for developing the needed leadership....The presentation is concise, provides the essence of three decades of evolution in labor management relations, and reflects on the significance of an emerging "win-win" philosophy....Leadership is a paradox--it is both constant and changing. Educators seeking to use its power or create environments conducive to its growth would be wise to use the Hoffman/Summers collection as a resouce."-Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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ALLAN M. HOFFMAN is Dean of Health Sciences, Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa./e RANDAL W. SUMMERS is Principal, Summers and Associates and Professor, University of Phoenix./e