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Module Two Resources:

Leadership Programs

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Module Three Resources:

Excerpt 1: "Why Chairs Lose Jobs" (PDF - 2 pages, 35KB)

Excerpt 2: "Linking Recruitment, Responsibilities, Evaluation, and Rewards" (PDF - 2 pages, 39KB)

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University Presidents

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  2. Baliles GL. Renewing the academic presidency: stronger leadership for tougher times. Washington, D.C.: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges; 1996.
  3. Bensimon EM. How college presidents use their administrative groups: "Real" and "illusory" teams. Journal of Higher Education Management 1991;7(1):35-51.
  4. Birnbaum R. Leadership and learning: The college president as intuitive scientist. Presidential Address: ASHE 1986 Annual Meeting Paper. Review of Higher Education 1986;9:381-95.
  5. Birnbaum R. How colleges work: the cybernetics of academic organization and leadership. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1988.
  6. Birnbaum R. How academic leadership works: understanding success and failure in the college presidency. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1992.
  7. Bland CJ, Starnaman S, Hembroff L, Perlstadt H, Henry R, Richards R. Leadership behaviors for successful university--community collaborations to change curricula. Acad.Med. 1999;74(11):1227-37.
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  9. Cohen MD, March JG, Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Leadership and ambiguity: the American college president. 2nd ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Press; 1986.
  10. Eckel P, Green M, Hill B, Mallon W. Taking Charge of Change: A Primer for Colleges and Universities. On Change III: An Occasional Paper Series of the ACE Project on Leadership and Institutional Transformation. Washington, DC: American Council on Education; 1999.
  11. Fisher JL. Presidential assessment: a better way. AGB Reports 2001;28(5):6.
  12. Green MF, Ross M, Education ACo. The American college president: a contemporary profile. Washington, D.C: American Council on Education; 2000.
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  14. Kennedy D. Academic duty. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; 1997.
  15. Kerr C, Gade ML. The many lives of academic presidents: time, place & character. Washington, D.C: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges; 1986.
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  19. McLaughlin JB. The Perilous Presidency. The Educational Record 1996;77(2-3):12-17.
  20. Nonnemaker L, Griner PF. The effects of a changing environment on relationships between medical schools and their parent universities. Acad.Med. 2001;76(1):9-18.
  21. Schwartz MP. A national survey of presidential performance assessment policies and practices. (Occasional Paper No. 34). Washington, D.C.: Association of Governing Boards of Universitise and Colleges; 1998.
  22. Shaw KA. The successful president: "Buzz words" on leadership. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press; 1999.
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  24. Winston GC. Why can't college be more like a firm? Change 1997;29(5):32-39.

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