This chapter begins the exploration of what leadership education is through examining the relationship between educational involvement and academic autonomy in the development of socially responsible leaders.

This chapter provides the critical leadership logic model as a tool to help educators develop leadership-learning opportunities. This proactive logic model includes curricular and co-curricular educational experiences to ensure critical thinking through leadership education.

A presidential code of conduct is needed more today than ever before. College and university presidents are being required to do more without the proper training to succeed. Presidents from outside the academy enter academia with normative patterns and codes of conduct that served them well in their previous occupations but now have the potential…

The powerful influence of peers in human development has been widely documented, particularly within education. Throughout the history of higher education, peer interactions have been a component of scholarly explorations of student types, campus cultures, and even the cycle of student "generations." In addition, most student development theories…

Creating a new generation of leaders and managers has been the task of the innovative U.K. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)

An effective college president must be first, foremost, and always an educator. It is his or her task to make decisions that help create the context in which the authentic individual, the civilized citizen, may emerge. (Author/MSE)

Leadership has a profound impact through its style. The dimensions of leadership behavior in academe communicate more about a leader than most pronouncements of opinion. Those dimensions include the directing of attention, use of language, attitudes, and personal demeanor. (MSE)

A leader needs a clear and challenging vision, a magic with words, the ability to motivate others, the courage to stay on course, and the persistence not to lose hope. (Author)

Essential elements of college or university leadership are a passion for the institution, a commitment to stewardship, a clear but far-reaching vision, and the courage of one's convictions. (Author)

Good leadership depends on the ability to tolerate anxiety, loneliness and the threat of unpopularity. This ability is more likely to be developed by the observation of good role models in action than through formal training. (MSE)

Although women and minority administrators are becoming more common, they still must enter and learn to work within higher education institutions that are unaccustomed to their presence, much less leadership. Their careers often depend on whether they can successfully negotiate various double-bind situations. (Author/MSE)

It is suggested that, among executives in higher education, particularly in operations management, professional development needs attention. Consideration is given to weaknesses in operations management, inadquacies of career ladders, departmental responsibilities, deanship duties, vice-presidential and presidential development, and reasons for…

To be a leader who makes tough and meaningful decisions, one must be effective, want but not need the job, believe in one's decisions, and have a vision for the institution. Leadership is not shown in single issues but in the consistency of judgments made to serve the institution. (MSE)

Search committee members can help improve the likelihood that senior vacancies will be filled on time, within budget, and without unpleasant surprises. Methods include creating a job description, position criteria, and an institution profile; setting a timetable; using consultants; clarifying needs for candidate information; maintaining…

In this chapter, the author addresses one small aspect of the leadership algorithm: communication. As the title suggests, the aspect of communication he discusses is that nebulous part of the human interaction process that sets the stage--the one that results in creative problem solving and collegial relationships--the interpersonal aspects of…