Stephen J. Nelson

Leaders in the Crucible (eBook, PDF)

The Moral Voice of College Presidents

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Regardless of the pressures and problems confronting colleges and universities today, they can ill afford to assume that the only essential qualities of those chosen to be presidents are their abilities to be sound managers, institutional developers, and public relations experts. Nelson argues that college presidents must possess the capacity to use the presidential pulpit as moral leaders.

Presidents are profiled as leaders who shape student character, lead campus communities, and are in the forefront of issues critical to education. From this vantage point, we can better examine the moral beliefs at the core of colleges and universities, understand and appreciate moral leadership in higher education, and consider the foundations and future of the presidency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313001420
• Artikelnr.: 68528699

Autorenporträt

Stephen J. Nelson is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Bridgewater State College (MA) and is a Senior Scholar in the Leadership Alliance at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Professional Higher Education Administration from the University of Connecticut, and is the author of Leaders in the Crucible: The Moral Voice of College Presidents (2000). He received a Kellogg Foundation grant to conduct the further research about college and university presidents that led to this book. Dr. Nelson holds a B.A. degree in history from Gettysburg College, an MS in Religious Studies from the Harford Seminary, and a Masters of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Prologue The Moral Leadership of College Presidents Presidential
Perspectives: The Shape of Their Voice Architects of College Mission
Within the Gates Shaping Student Character Critical Issues in the Academy:
Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Diversity Beyond the Gates Hopes for
Democracy The Milieu of Social and Political Issues The University and the
World Ideological Battles and the Soul of the Academy: The Burdens of the
Presidential Pulpit The Presidency in the Crucible Bibliography Index