Empowerment at the Tower: Leadership and Identity in Higher Education

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Many colleges/universities, their professors, and their students are waking up to the question: how can we transform our institution to meet the needs of todays professors and students This book offers real-life depictions of how colleges and universities, often mired in calcified practices, beliefs, and aspirations are remaking their approach to Leadership & Identity - mid-flight - by confronting complacency and building new kinds of futuristic and humanistic programs and practices. It offers thought-provoking and instructive insights into the personalities and policies that enhance, or detract from, institutional evolution and provides practical insights into key levers for targeted, transformational growth. Chapter authors present dynamic case studies from 6 institutions in 5 states along with touching interviews that provide insights about being a change agent and impacting institutional change. Probing questions are offered to readers along with a unique worksheet designed to intentionally promote new light bulb moments at ones own college/university. This book offers thought-provoking and instructive insights into the personalities and policies that enhance, or detract from, institutional evolution and provides practical insights into key levers for targeted, transformational growth. Each case study includes information about the Background for the Change Initiative, the Change Initiative Itself, Challenges & Successes, and Lessons Learned.

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In Empowerment at the Tower: Leadership & Identity in Higher Education, editor David Silverberg has brought together thoughtful and compelling essays from scholars across the country on what it means to work with and occasionally in spite of academic bureaucracies. Solid examples are readily transferable to a range of academic settings. Silverberg closes each chapter with candid excerpts from his interviews with more than 11 author/change agents. Offering a worksheet that will help you build relationships, solve problems creatively, and become an agent of change on your own campus, Silverberg has contributed a welcome and transformative addition to the literature on higher education. -- Sarah Willie-Lebreton, editor of "Transforming the Academy" (2016, Rutgers University Press) and Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Swarthmore College

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Dr. David Silverberg is Director of the Telego Center for Educational Improvement at Ashland University in Ohio. He received his doctorate in Educational Administration, Leadership, and Policy from Pepperdine University (CA) and has served the field of Education as a professor, administrator, teacher, and consultant.