Stylus Publishing (VA) Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation

Review Leading Academic Change offers important insights regarding the challenges and opportunities present during this extraordinary moment in the history of higher education. Drawing from her decades of leadership in the Academy, Elaine sets forth a compelling case for reexamining traditional educational structures and hierarchies, and exploring possibilities for transforming our models, guided by the profound principle that, 'Nothing is more powerful in higher education than uncompromising commitment to student success.'--John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University (11/10/2017 12:00:00 AM)"Elaine P. Maimon, president ofGovernors State University, located thirty miles south of Chicago, has writtenan insightful, practical, and strategic book showing how public institutionscan be transformed when administrators think like professors and lead byexample rather than by decree. This book is a must-read for chairs, deans, provosts, and presidents who seek to inspire transformational change. The final paragraph of Leading AcademicChange vowsto rattle old hierarchies that stifle true reform. 'If we can do that, ' Maimon writes, 'we will unleash the power of an educated electorate tosearch for truth and to create an inclusive society worthy of our highestaspirations.'"--Leading Academic Review"The importance of the new majoritystudent, defined as those individuals who come from lower socio-economicbackgrounds or whose parents did not attend college, has grown significantlyover the past decade. For many colleges, attending to the needs of thesestudents fundamentally returns them to their institutional promise and mission.These colleges are exploring many avenues that promote degree completionthrough interventions and supports that meet the unique needs of thesestudents, albeit with limited or uneven results. It is for this reasonthat Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation isso timely, moving the reader to consider change that is transformational.Furthermore, the premise of this book is that serving these students is theright thing to do for society as well as the economic futures of these youngpeople.This book was inspirational and itsrationale built upon our collective desire to promote the democratization ofour society through quality higher education. While efforts here were targetedspecifically at the new majority student, one could make a strongargument that these changes would benefit all students."--Teachers College Record"Elaine Maimon combines her long experience as a leader in the writing across the curriculum movement, where writing becomes a tool for learning in higher education, with her long experience as president of one of those increasingly rare public universities where equity is treated as a means of achieving quality. This book is a practical yet radical response to those in higher education who would separate thinking and writing (and make writing remedial), as well as those who would separate quality and equity (and make equity an afterthought). It is a must-read for college teachers and administrators who seek a positive, principled response to the problems besetting US higher education."--David Russell, Professor of English "Iowa State University" (9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM)"In Leading Academic Change, Elaine P. Maimon has tapped her robust experience in university leadership to offer valuable insight and actionable ideas for higher education leaders focused on helping students persist, graduate and go on to lifelong learning and success. Noting that first generation, low-income and returning adult students now make up the majority of undergraduates at America's universities, Maimon rightly calls for more effective learning models for them than the century-old system characterized by two years of general education and two years of specialized study. Leading Academic Change provides a thought-provoking, worthwhile guide for leaders in education to manage change at a time when so much c