Background: Embedded research involves co-locating researchers within non-academic organisations to better link research and practice. Embedded research initiatives are often complex and emergent with a range of underlying intents, structures and processes. This can create tensions within initiatives and contributes to ongoing uncertainty about…

As collaborative artistic inquiries, studios challenge logical--analytical approaches to knowledge. Studio activities entail materializing artifacts to explore a range of management and organization issues. Theoretical references are currently needed to keep pace with the growing interest in studio-informed pedagogy. Inspired by organizational…

In the early months of every year, the author interviews some two dozen presidents, chancellors, provosts, and chief business officers to learn about the challenges and opportunities for which they are preparing in the coming year or two. The interviews are focused on institutional strategy, and the leaders rarely mention technology. Not so this…

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was detected in three patients from the city of Wuhan, China. By January 2020, COVID-19 was declared a widespread pandemic creating a global health crisis, resulting in millions of people contracting the virus and thousands losing their lives. Alongside the wide-reaching health crisis, the impact of…

Experiential learning has played an integral role in curricular innovation since the inception of North American sport management education. However, internationally, work-integrated learning, and specifically cooperative education, have proven to be robust methods for preparing students for the workforce with little to no mention of these terms…

You are a school administrator--a principal or maybe a district leader. You're doing everything "right"--poring over data, trying new strategies, launching annual initiatives, bringing in outside trainers. So why do the outcomes you seek still seem so far away? The problem isn't you; it's that you were trained in school leadership, and…

Conflict management is an overlooked area in leadership development. Mediation as an intervention method to use in conflict management can be productive for building leadership capacity and organizational development in higher education. Adults average five conflicts per day and people in titled leadership spend over two-thirds of their time…

"Resolving the Crisis in Higher Education: The Key Role of Business Continuity Planning" asks and answers probing questions affecting higher education in the post-COVID-19 educational landscape. The book examines whether private universities, particularly liberal arts colleges, have viable business models and discusses the risk posed by…

Gender equity remains an evolving issue within the United States, in spite of the long history of women's rights legislation, including the 1986 ruling by the Supreme Court that a work environment can be declared hostile or abusive because of discrimination based on sex. In the field of education, women are a majority; however, they are a minority…

There is a distinct gap in existing research exploring how a prolonged crisis can pose unique challenges and learning opportunities for school leaders. This qualitative study sought to convey four school leaders' lived experiences and answer the question: What are the perceptions of four school leaders in a metropolitan area of the challenges…

Since Fall 2014, the number of students attending private school in Massachusetts has decreased from 150,000 students per year to just 120,000 students in 2019. This number is projected to continue to decrease due to many challenges independent schools are facing in the 21st century. This decrease in enrollment has led to a crisis for private…

This is a qualitative study that examined the impact of academic capitalism on academic managers at five land-grant universities located in the Southwest United States. This study included in-depth interviews of Presidents/Chancellors, Provost, and Academic Deans to gain insights into their perception of academic capitalism, neo-liberalism,…

As initiative after initiative is created to improve education in order to compete in the social and economic constructs of our world, and as we are experiencing more and more social discord in our nation, perhaps the reforms are shortsighted in that they are not fully addressing the wide ranging needs of our youth. Perhaps by thinking differently…

Research generally shows that the most common business-related difficulties in for-profit higher education institutions are low productivity and declining revenue streams. The purpose of the generic qualitative study was to explore how nationwide for-profit higher education institutions implement strategies for continuous improvement in their…

Purpose. The purpose of this adaptation sequential explanatory mixed methods study was to determine the degree of importance that higher education department chairs ascribe to DeVore's (1994) five stress-inducing behaviors of authoritative command, evaluation, norm discrepancy, sanction, and targeting when initiating change in the behaviors of…