Preface

LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Practices That Make a Difference is about how people on college and university campuses mobilize others to want to struggle for shared aspirations and make extraordinary things happen. It’s about the behaviors that leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, segments into solidarity, and risks into rewards. It’s about exercising leadership that creates the climate in which people work together to turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes.

College and university leaders can and do make a difference in the strength of their institutions. Many, in fact, assert that leadership, more than any other single factor, will determine the future vitality ...

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