Transforming Leadership Pathways for Humanities Professionals in Higher Education includes thirteen essays from a variety of contributors investigating how humanities professionals grapple with the opportunities and challenges of leadership positions. Written by insiders sharing their lived experience, this collection provides an authentic look at the multiple roles humanities specialists play, as well as offers strategies for professional growth, sustenance, and satisfaction. The collection also considers the relationship between disciplinary areas of study, academic training, and the valuable skill sets and habits of mind that serve higher education leaders.
While Transforming Leadership Pathways emphasizes that a leadership route in higher education can be a welcome and positive professional move for many humanities scholars, the volume also acknowledges the issues that arise when faculty take on administrative positions while otherwise marginalized on campus because of faculty status, rank, or personal identity. This collection demystifies the path into higher education administration and argues that humanities scholars are uniquely qualified for such roles. Empathetic, deeply analytical, attuned to historical context, and trained in communication, teachers and scholars who hail from humanities disciplines often find themselves well-suited to the demands of complex academic leadership in today’s colleges and universities.
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| Introduction: Other Duties as Assigned, or Desired |
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PART 1 LEADERSHIP PATHWAYS |
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1 What It Takes: How to Develop Academic Leadership |
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2 The Politics, Practice, and Poetics of Teaching Leadership |
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3 Academic Duck-Rabbit: Faculty Leadership at the Smaller College or University |
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4 Navigating Networks and Systems: Practicing Care, Clarifying Boundaries, and Reclaiming Self in Higher Education Administration |
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PART 2 INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION |
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5 Administering Antidisciplinarity: Navigating a Diverse Career Path from Theory to Institutional Practice |
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6 "We Know What We Are, but Know Not What We May Be": Academic Innovation and the Reinvention of Professional Identities |
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7 Administering Instructional Reform: Interdisciplinary Learning and the Humanities Profession |
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PART 3 LEADERSHIP, EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE |
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8 Leading While Young, Black, and on the Tenure Track |
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9 Leading through Precarity: A Tale of (Un)Sustainable Professional Advancement |
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10 Ito Aug Kwento Ko: Pinayist Pedagogy/Praxis and Community College Leadership |
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PART 4 COMMUNITY, COMMUNICATION, AND CALLING |
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11 Collaborative, Introverted Leadership: Engaging Your Stakeholders to Move a Program Forward |
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12 Communication and Crisis Management: A Case Study and a Cautionary Tale |
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13 Vocation and the Drudgery I Love |
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| Coda: Leaning in to Twenty-First-Century Leadership |
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| Contributors |
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Roze Hentschell is senior associate dean for Academic Programs at Colorado State University. She helps develop and works to oversee all undergraduate and graduate programs, curriculum, education abroad, and experiential learning for the College of Liberal Arts. She was a 20212022 American Council on Education Fellow with a placement at the University of California, San Diego in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. She is a professor of English with a specialization in early modern literature and cultural studies.
Catherine E. Thomas is associate dean for Student Success Programs and professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. She holds leadership roles in a variety of student success initiatives, including tutoring services, the first-year seminar, learning support courses, and first-year learning communities. A teacher-scholar of early modern literature, her research interests include Shakespeare and the comic arts, and early modern gender and sexuality.
