LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION

LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION (HPSE-GE 2097-001) New York University The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Summer Session III & IV, 2012 Tuesday & Thursday, 4:55 pm 7 pm Waverly, Room 433 Instructor: Anne W. Bezbatchenko, Ph.D. abez@teaglefoundation.org 212-373-1974 Visiting Researcher: Loni Bordoloi Pazich mlb483@nyu.edu 212-998-5293 Office Hours: By appointment. To schedule, please email. Overview This course examines the theory and practice of leadership at four-year American colleges and universities. Through readings, class discussion, interactive activities, writing assignments, and engagement with guest speakers, students will gain grounding in leadership literature and its applications. Students will develop a greater appreciation of the complexity of academic institutions and the ranges of knowledge and skills needed by effective leaders. Learning Objectives Students are expected to: Engage in class discussion in ways that reflect what you have read and respond to classmates comments Rigorously analyze the leadership content in readings, critically thinking about the purpose and/or messages contained within the piece and what you might agree or disagree with based on your own logic and experiences Apply theory in course readings to your lived experiences working in colleges and universities Think about leadership as multi-faceted, exploring the lenses of leadership through the eyes of various institutional actors: student affairs leaders, faculty, presidents, foundations, and your own eyes as an individual

Expectations and Assessment Students are expected to attend all class meetings, complete assigned readings and activities required before the class meeting, and participate actively in class discussions. Any more than two absences will likely adversely affect your grade for the course. The only exceptions will be cases of documented illness or other family emergency. In addition, every student must make an effort to be in class on time. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class session. If you must miss a class, you are expected to submit a 2-3 page response paper based on the readings for the class you missed; this paper is due upon your return to class. *When submitting assignments, please post your document on Blackboard in the Digital Dropbox* A. Classroom participation (25%). Contributions in class should reveal substantial familiarity with assigned readings, as well as an ability to synthesize and constructively critique the comments of classmates. B. Current News Presentation (10%). Select and summarize a relatively recent article from a higher education news source (e.g., Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, New York Times) that relates to the class readings on that particular date; specific date sign-ups will take place at the beginning of the course. Please send your article to the Instructor and Visiting Researcher 24-48 hours in advance. Presentations should be approximately 5 minutes. C. Inbox Exercise (10%). On the first day of class, we will conduct an in-class exercise (students do not need to read the in-box activity materials in advance of class) related to presidential leadership. As a follow-up to this in-class exercise, students will be asked to prepare a 2-3 page reaction paper, plan of attack, or memo using at least one frame from the Bolman & Deal readings. Due Tuesday, July 10. D. Theory-to-Practice Paper (15%). 4-5 pages in length. Identify a higher education organizational challenge from your own lived experience, reflect on your own leadership development in the context of this challenge, and explore how leadership literature can provide a lens through which to view the challenge. Due Thursday, July 19. E. Final Paper (30%) and Presentation (10%). 12-15 pages in length. The final paper can be on any topic of interest related to leadership in higher education. It should be informed by course readings, higher education press, and any other related articles or books of your choosing. Final papers due no later than Thursday, August 9. Student presentations to be scheduled on either Tuesday, August 7 or Thursday, August 9.

Readings: Readings are to be completed prior to the date on which they are listed for discussion in the schedule of classes below. Required Text: Northouse, P.G. (2006). Leadership: Theory and Practice (4 th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Required Readings: Required readings will be posted on Blackboard in Course Documents Classes: Class I: Tuesday, July 3 Course Overview & Introductions Presidential Inbox Exercise & Discussion (no reading assignment prior to first class; copies of the inbox exercise will be provided in class) Class II: Thursday, July 5 Higher Education Organizations Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (1997). People and Organizations: The Human Resource Frame. In Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (pp. 102-119). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (1997). The Political Frame. In Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (pp. 161-193). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (1997). The Symbolic Frame. In Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (pp. 215-249). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Class III: Tuesday, July 10 Organizational Change *Due: Inbox exercise* Guest Speaker: Madeleine Green, Higher Education Consultant & Former Vice President at American Council on Education (ACE)

Birnbaum, R. (1998). Problems of Governance, Management, and Leadership in Academic Institutions. In How Colleges Work: The Cybernetics of Academic Organizations and Leadership (pp. 3-29). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Eckel, P., Green, M. & Hill, B. (2001). Why are some institutions more successful at accomplishing change than others? On Change V: Riding the Waves of Change, an occasional paper series of the ACE Project on leadership and institutional transformation and The Kellogg Forum on Higher Education Transformation. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 13-21. Kotter, J. (1996). Successful change and the force that drives it. In Leading Change (pp. 17-31). Boston: Harvard University Press. Class IV: Thursday, July 12 Equity-minded Leadership *Please come prepared to discuss your initial ideas for the final paper assignment* American Council on Education. (2005). Equality as a Fact, Equality as a Result: A Matter of Institutional Accountability, an occasional series of the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity and the Center for Institutional and International Initiatives. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1-19. Bensimon, E.M. (2007). The underestimated significance of practitioner knowledge in the scholarship of student success. The Review of Higher Education, 30(4), 441-469. Class V: Tuesday, July 17 Student Life Leadership Guest Speaker: Paula Steisel Goldfarb, Executive Director, NYU Stern MBA & Executive MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Creamer, D.G., Winston, R.B., Jr., & Miller, T.K. (2001). The Professional Student Affairs Administrator: Roles & Functions. In R.B. Winston, D.G. Creamer, & T.K. Miller & Associates, The Professional Student Affairs Administrator: Educator, Leaders, and Manager (pp. 3-38). New York: Brunner-Routledge. Kuh, G. D., Siegel, M.J. & Thomas, A.D. (2001). Higher Education: Values and Culture. In R.B. Winston, D.G. Creamer, & T.K. Miller & Associates, The Professional Student Affairs Administrator: Educator, Leaders, and Manager (pp. 39-63). New York: Brunner- Routledge.

Class VI: Thursday, July 19 Faculty Collaboration and Leadership *Due: Theory-to-Practice Paper* Austin, A.E. (1990). Faculty cultures, faculty values. New Directions for Institutional Research, 68, 61-74. Eckel, P.D. (2000). The role of shared governance in institutional hard decisions: Enabler or Antagonist? The Review of Higher Education, 24(1), 15-39. Kezar, A. (2006). Redesigning for collaboration in learning initiatives: An examination of four highly collaborative campuses. The Journal of Higher Education, 77(5), 804-838. Rosovsky, H. (1987). Deaning. Harvard Magazine, 34-41. Class VII: Tuesday, July 24 Presidential Leadership *Submit Meyers-Briggs form by today in preparation for analysis on August 2* Muller, H. (2000). I have at least nine jobs. Fortune, 275-278. Rhodes, R. (1998). The Art of the Presidency. The Presidency, 1-6. The Leadership Imperative. (2006). The Report of the AGB Task Force on the State of the Presidency in American Higher Education. Washington, DC: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1-50. Weisbuch, R.A. (2006). A President s First Year: Deal or No Deal? The Chronicle of Higher Education, 52(29), C1. Class VIII: Thursday, July 26 Strategy & Foundation Leadership in Higher Education (Tentative: Class to be held at the Teagle Foundation 570 Lexington Avenue, Floor 38, NY, NY 10022 SW corner of 51 st and Lexington) Guest Speaker: Richard L. Morrill, President, Teagle Foundation Morrill, R.L. (2007). Creating and Situating an Integrative Strategy Process. In Strategic

Leadership: Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities (pp. 55-76). New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Morrill, R.L. (2007). Strategic Governance: Design the Mechanisms & Tools in Strategy. In Strategic Leadership: Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities (pp. 77-104). New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Porter, M.E & Kramer, M.R. (1999). Philanthropy s New Agenda: Creating Value. Harvard Business Review, 121-130. Class IX: Tuesday, July 31 Transformational Leadership and Team Leadership Northouse, Chapters 9 & 10 Couto, R.C. (1995). The transformation of transforming leadership. In J.T. Wren (Ed.). The leader s companion: Insights on leadership through the ages (pp. 102-107). New York: The Free Press. Gardner, H. (1996). The leaders stories. In Leading Minds (pp. 41-65). New York, NY: Basic Books. Class X: Thursday, August 2 Your Leadership: Skills Approach and Style Approach Analysis of Myers-Briggs: Heather Maffeo, NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development Rebecca Salk, NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development Northouse, Chapters 3 & 4 Goleman, D. (2006). What makes a leader? In W.E. Rosenbach & R.L. Taylor (Eds.). Contemporary issues in leadership (pp. 5-18). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Class XI: Tuesday, August 7 Final Paper Presentations Class XII: Thursday, August 9 Final Paper Presentations *Due: Final Paper*