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John Eye – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Much of the literature in library leadership and management focuses on strategies and practices based on discrete attributes and sweeping human behaviors intended to improve operational effectiveness. This paper challenges the reader to build a mindset for leadership that reflects the real world, where leaders and managers work within parameters…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Administrator Role, Leadership Styles, Organizational Culture
Fred Carlo Andersen; Gunn Vedøy; Erlend Dehlin – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
This study examines how six principals in Norwegian adult education centres (AECs) navigate and make sense of and navigate the multifaceted and uncertain environment in which they act. Specifically, the study aims to explore the significance of improvisation and positioning in the principals' day-to-day decision-making and leadership as they…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Adult Education, Principals, Foreign Countries
Kelsey Jones Bassett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Chief fundraising officers at technical colleges within the Technical College System of Georgia face complex challenges, including scarce resources, small staff sizes, and a lack of formal training. The purpose of the study was to understand how chief fundraising officers use self-directed learning experiences and learning projects to build…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges, College Administration, Administrators
Young, Stephen P.; Baker, Vicki L. – Management Teaching Review, 2023
Managers are essential in the strategy-making process and often use the launch of new products to aide in the advancement of their selected organizations. This article links current management curriculum with the role of the product manager, introduces students to the concepts of strategy and product management, and encourages students to think…
Descriptors: Management Development, Design, Decision Making, Costs
Keith W. McIntosh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While extensive research explores student belonging in higher education, the experiences of faculty, staff, and administrators remain relatively unexamined. Employing case studies at three private, liberal arts colleges in the United States and semi-structured interviews with presidents as well as selected faculty, staff, administrators, this…
Descriptors: College Presidents, College Administration, Leadership, Leadership Styles
Romika M. White – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The relationship between religiosity and ethical behavior at work has remained elusive. In combining both religion and higher education we can discover how these two systems thematically, may pose greater potential towards a better understanding of the factors that influence ethical judgements and behaviors in academic settings. This study…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Higher Education, Ethics, Decision Making
Anthony Gordon Brantley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Forty-seven percent of higher education chief academic officers have been in their positions for three years or less, but there has been no systematic review and exploration into why this level of turnover has occurred. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to gather data from a select group of chief academic officers to more fully…
Descriptors: College Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Difficulty Level
Merli Tamtik – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
The emergence of agreements between private pathway colleges and public English-medium institutions represents a new development in internationalization that further challenges the public higher education landscape. While these institutional arrangements are controversial and often criticized, university senior administrators have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comprehension, College Administration, Public Colleges
Tapati Dutta; Jon Agley – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This study at a US Native American-serving Nontribal Institution (NASNTI) deeply analyzed collegiate leadership's responses and experiences during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Elite interviews were conducted between April and June 2021 with the college president, provost, dean of student engagement, human…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Leadership Responsibility, College Presidents, Deans
Candace R. Kuby; Aaron M. Kuntz – Gender and Education, 2024
In higher education, the discursive establishment of 'faculty' vs. 'administrator' creates a dualistic, hierarchical structure, informing relationalities between/within ourselves and faculty. As administrators, we found/find ourselves in relational encounters, entanglements of material-discursive bodies, that we were/are a part of producing. In…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, College Administration, Ethics
Kaul, Maya; Comstock, Meghan; Simon, Nicole S. – AERA Open, 2022
COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges to schools, leaving principals to lead rapid organizational change with limited guidance or support. Drawing on interviews from a larger, national study of principals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyzed the experiences of 20 principals in four large, urban school districts--Boston,…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Urban Schools, School Districts
Kaul, Maya; Comstock, Meghan; Simon, Nicole S. – Grantee Submission, 2022
COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges to schools, leaving principals to lead rapid organizational change with limited guidance or support. Drawing on interviews from a larger, national study of principals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyzed the experiences of 20 principals in four large, urban school districts--Boston,…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Urban Schools, School Districts
Zulkipli Lessy; Linah Khairiyah Pary; Margaret E. Adamek – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
Based on a long-standing centralized appointment process for principalship, Yogyakarta's secondary school principals have typically taken an authoritarian approach to leadership, and this stance has persisted even amid Indonesia's recent political modernization. To examine the recent emergence of an allocative approach, this case study documented…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Leadership Styles, Decision Making, School Administration
Gonzales, Steven R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
Possessing core beliefs and a leadership philosophy is essential to undergird the work of college leaders, particularly during a time of systemic organizational change. This chapter delineates what college leaders should do to establish ethical decision-making and ethical leadership practices.
Descriptors: College Administration, Leadership Responsibility, Beliefs, Philosophy
Allison, Chris – Liberal Education, 2019
Chris Allison was working as a public relations executive, and had no formal business training when his father phoned and asked him to take over the reins of his Pittsburgh telecom equipment business. His father needed to focus his energies on his other business which was struggling. Because of his Liberal Arts background Allison knew exactly what…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Telecommunications, Administrator Role, Business Administration