Creating a Web of Support: An Important Leadership Strategy for Advancing Campus Diversity

Autor/inn/en	Kezar, Adrianna; Eckel, Peter; Contreras-McGavin, Melissa; Quaye, Stephen John
Titel	Creating a Web of Support: An Important Leadership Strategy for Advancing Campus Diversity
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 55 (2008) 1, S.69-92 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-007-9068-2
Schlagwörter	College Presidents; Diversity (Institutional); Leadership; Change Strategies; College Administration; Administrator Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College president; Hochschulpräsident; Führung; Führungsposition; Lösungsstrategie; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung
Abstract	Research demonstrates that leadership, particularly among presidents, is important for moving a diversity agenda forward and make appreciable progress on it. The research questions pursued here are: What is the role of the college president in advancing a diversity agenda? What strategies do presidents identify as important to facilitating a diversity agenda? There were three main findings: (1) strategies are deployed in a non-linear way best represented through a web metaphor, (2) six sets of actors that serve as key nodes on the web and specific strategies were crucial to enhancing and deepening the web-developing an internal network, hiring, mentoring, partnering with faculty on the curriculum, supporting student affairs staff, working directly with and learning from students, and establishing external networks; and, (3) strategies within the human resource frame are noted by presidents as particularly important to moving a diversity agenda forward. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10