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As formal leadership development programs grow in scale and scope, there is a need for further research that extends beyond the focus on short‐term outcomes for individual program participants. This study explored alumni perceptions of the longer‐term outcomes associated with participation in leadership development programs, focusing specifically o...
Introduction
The New Jersey Kids Study (NJKS) is a transdisciplinary statewide initiative to understand influences on child health, development, and disease. We conducted a mixed-methods study of project planning teams to investigate team effectiveness and relationships between team dynamics and quality of deliverables.
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Ten theme-based wor...
Building a future pipeline of leaders in higher education remains a topic of importance given the challenges and pressures facing colleges and universities. The current article introduces one initiative dedicated to graduate leadership education, the PreDoctoral Leadership Development Academy at Rutgers University, and highlights points of connecti...
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the college experience; however, it also provided an opportunity to engage with and support students differently. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the college experience; however, it also provided an opportunity to engage with and support students differently. Participation and leadership in coll...
During a time of cascading crises within organizations and societies, those engaged in leadership are called upon to respond to the pressures of the moment and to advance change that will contribute to individual and collective vitality. The work of leadership generativity becomes particularly pronounced in the social, emotional, and pragmatic pivo...
Clinical and translational science research collaborations rely on the effectiveness of high-performing teams and on the ability of leaders to stimulate, support, and encourage team effectiveness. The objective of this study was to explore insights related to teamwork, team dynamics, and team collaboration from professionals outside biomedical scie...
In a world that might be described as both increasingly fragmented and interconnected, liberal arts colleges serve an important purpose. Like all institutions of higher education, leaders of liberal arts colleges must monitor, prepare for, and learn from a wide array of institutional and environmental challenges that might threaten one’s mission, s...
This article explores the importance of providing leadership development opportunities for graduate and professional students, in addition to highlighting approaches for building leadership capacity among these students. The article concludes with a snapshot of leadership development offerings for graduate and professional audiences sponsored by in...
This chapter explores the meningitis B outbreak at Princeton University in 2013 and 2014. Drawing upon interviews with 12 university and community leaders who played a prominent role in the crisis response, along with other artifacts related to the public health crisis, we describe key dimensions of the response and implications for communicating s...
Crises have the potential to heighten stress levels among frontline employees. In general, to cope with crisis‐related stress, employees often improvise or job craft to meet the demands of the crisis. In addition to this, they need resources and directions to support their innovation by lowering role conflict. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, nurses t...
Colleges and universities are values-based organizations. These values help anchor an institution around a set of shared principles that, when enacted, provide guidance and stability in the pursuit of one's mission. The realization of the tripartite mission of teaching, research, and service-and in some cases, community engagement and/or clinical e...
Representing distinct parts of Rutgers University—academic innovation and experiential learning, organizational leadership and strategy, and the university library—the authors approach this discussion of agility and cross-university partnerships from three distinct vantage points. Despite different administrative portfolios and scholarly and profes...
Inspired by their work with leaders at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, leadership experts Ralph Gigliotti and Christine Goldthwaite have written a new book to serve as a resource, guide, and source of inspiration for leaders and aspiring leaders in academic healthcare environments who wish to create change, navigate crisis, and pursue organ...
This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic department chairs. Through a survey of 172 department chairs in the United States, the central findings of this research-intensified challenges, a multidirectional leadership pivot, and competing perceptions of higher education reinvention-reinforce the liminality of the academic...
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Leadership scholars, practitioners and educators find themselves at a very opportune time, when their subject matter-expertise is of increasing interest across sectors, settings and levels of analysis, as leadership is hailed as both a pressing problem and a promising solution. It is also a challenging time for leadership study—a point in t...
This article offers a set of themes that summarize the entirety of the book. Of particular note is the context in which this issue was written and how our social context impacts the ways we understand and explore leadership. In addition to the critical task of increasing self-awareness as a core deliverable of any leadership assessment or inventory...
Leadership inventories and assessments have emerged and evolved to meet the needs of unique historical moments. The article raises questions for how assessments and instruments may be used for the different purposes of leadership training, education, and development. The article concludes with a summary of the broad categories of leadership assessm...
Internal organization development offices, scholars, and practitioners have an important role to play in helping organizations and their leaders navigate the ambiguity, complexity, and disruption posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and in helping them repair, recover, and reinvent for a post-pandemic future. Given the wide range of contemporary challeng...
Crisis remains a pervasive phenomenon for organizations of all kinds. The ubiquitous and casual invocation of crisis cuts across organizational sectors and bodies of literature; and the popularity of crisis holds true for institutions of higher education. There is much agreement among communication scholars and practitioners that crises disrupt and...
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on all sectors, including colleges and universities, has been extensive. The pivot to a suddenly online teaching and work environment raises important questions regarding student learning and development, curriculum design and delivery, virtual team engagement, and the very future of higher education, and as h...
The challenges facing academic health and medicine are abundant and require effective leadership across institutions. This article highlights the design of a collaborative leadership development program for faculty administrators that seeks to address many of these leadership challenges. The article begins with an overview of existing research to s...
The training and development of aspiring and future leaders in higher education remains a critical challenge for graduate programs across the country. One example of an “early intervention” program that seeks to bridge communication and leadership competencies is the PreDoctoral Leadership Development Academy, or PLDA – the focal case for this rese...
There was a time when crises on college and university campuses were relatively rare. Much has changed, and it has changed quite rapidly. Rather than being isolated incidents requiring the sole attention of presidents, chancellors, or communication professionals, the proliferation of crises across campuses means that crisis leadership has now becom...
Many crisis management studies focus on an organisation that is deemed to be responsible for the occurrence of a crisis. In crises where there is no direct, singular causality, any organisation has the opportunity to proactively initiate policies to address the situation. The opioid crisis is one societal issue that cannot easily be attributed to a...
The Baldrige Excellence Framework is one of the most prominent and well‐regarded instruments for integrating organizational assessment, planning, and improvement. Although it is potentially applicable to academic as well as business environments, the language and approach of the standard Baldrige model may impede its use within colleges and univers...
Many crisis management studies focus on an organisation that is deemed to be responsible for the occurrence of a crisis. In crises where there is no direct, singular causality, any organisation has the opportunity to proactively initiate policies to address the situation. The opioid crisis is one societal issue that cannot easily be attributed to a...
In response to both the lack of formal leadership training and the challenges facing leaders across higher education, a number of programs are being planned and initiated at colleges and universities. This application brief highlights the conceptual foundations, structural components, and operational considerations of one such program, the Rutgers...
The following article analyses the crisis involving racial tensions at the University of Missouri in 2015 that ultimately contributed to the departure of the university president and chancellor. This case amplifies the importance of organizational vulnerabilities from both an historical context and a national-issue context. As supported through thi...
Student involvement in leadership education initiatives can have a notable impact on the undergraduate student experience. By actively participating in these initiatives, students have an opportunity to learn more about the concepts, strategies, and tools for effective leadership, while also enhancing their leadership behaviours through guided prac...
We are seeing a growing number of efforts to strengthen the capacity of leaders in higher
education, such as those programs offered by the American Council on Education and the Big Ten Academic
Alliance; yet, the existing scholarly literature is limited in this area. The purpose of this paper is to add to the
body of scholarship on academic leaders...
The contingent workforce provides both challenges and opportunities for communication in organizations. This entry provides societal background to this growing subset of workers, gives definitions for contingent labor arrangements, and discusses the communication issues and relevant research findings these arrangements pose to worker satisfaction,...
A series of incidents in 2015 escalated racial tensions at the University of Missouri that ultimately contributed to the departure of the university president and chancellor. This case highlights the importance of focusing attention on competent leadership communication, which includes the development and maintenance of strong relationships with ke...
Leadership is widely accepted as a critical factor to the success, mediocrity, or failure of
an organization (Collins, 2001; March & Weil, 2005; Northouse, 2015). This is no less the case
in higher education, where the impact of leaders and leadership is critical to academic and
administrative effectiveness. This is especially true given the myriad...
Much has been written about the nature of leadership communication; however, the linkage often is limited to a view of communication as a strategic mechanism—or technique—to be employed by leaders in efforts to achieve specific purposes. This limited conceptualization of leadership communication does not fully capture the pervasive role of communic...
Villanova University launched its online Master of Public Administration (MPA) program in fall 2012, in which students from across the country, and in some instances the world, engage in videobase e-learning modules. As the first group of students completed the program, the project detailed in this article traced the evolution of written chatroom c...
The study of crisis in higher education remains an important area of research for scholars and a relevant area of interest for higher education leaders who must anticipate and effectively address the ever-increasing and wide-ranging crisis situations. Using Weick’s notion of retrospective sensemaking, this project attempts to theoretically reframe...
Communication is a topic frequently linked to leadership; however, the linkage often is limited to a view of communication as a tool to be employed by leaders in efforts to achieve particular purposes. The aim of this article is to provide a more expansive view of the communication process and its current and potential contributions to an understan...
Standard doctoral preparation includes formal training in a specific academic discipline. In some instances, this training includes experience serving on departmental and university-wide committees. Structured leadership education, however, is most often a peripheral concern of the graduate school experience. For a significant number of doctoral st...
This case study presents an overview of the development of a new Office for Leadership Programs at Villanova University, housed under the Office of Student Development. Adapting Kingdon’s (1984) public policy model to the creation of new initiatives in student affairs, this article offers a conceptual framework for the design of new student affairs...
A great deal of literature exists for leadership educators related to programs design, delivery, and student learning. However, little is known about leadership educators, who have largely been left out of contemporary leadership education research. We looked to teaching and teacher education literature to derive a model for leadership educator pro...
