What I'm Reading: ‘Shared Leadership in Higher Education’

What I'm Reading: ‘Shared Leadership in Higher Education’

Meaningful collaboration is hard to achieve, a dean observes, but it can be an effective route to change. As a political scientist and academic administrator, I’ve long been interested in shared governance. But a new report on the value of shared leadership in higher education, prepared for the Amer...

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Published in:The Chronicle of Higher Education 2017-09
Main Author: Cardenas, Sonia
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Collaboration
Cooperative learning
Higher education
Leadership
Participatory management
Politics
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Summary:Meaningful collaboration is hard to achieve, a dean observes, but it can be an effective route to change. As a political scientist and academic administrator, I’ve long been interested in shared governance. But a new report on the value of shared leadership in higher education, prepared for the American Council on Education by Adrianna J. Kezar and Elizabeth M. Holcombe, has challenged my thinking. I see now how models of shared governance can focus more on distributing power than on collaborating meaningfully.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362