A Song of Vice and Mire

Autor/in	Jenkins, Rob
Titel	A Song of Vice and Mire
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Governance; Leadership Effectiveness; Leadership Qualities; Leadership Styles; Transformational Leadership; Participative Decision Making; Community Colleges; College Presidents; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Didacticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Führungseffizienz; Führungseigenschaft; Führungsstil; Community college; Community College; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Didaktisierung
Abstract	The author has been reading George R.R. Martin's marvelous fantasy epic, "A Song of Ice and Fire," about a medieval-ish kingdom and its wars and intrigues. What fascinates him most about the narrative is the extent to which it parallels his experiences as a community-college professor and administrator. The author argues that for all the good they do, community colleges are notorious for poor governance. Despite the best efforts of many faculty members, some administrators, and national organizations such as the American Association of University Professors and the National Education Association, true shared governance has still not become the model of choice at most two-year campuses. The author believes that it is potentially a problem when the president of a college has no significant experience as a faculty member and, therefore, cannot even remotely relate to faculty concerns or understand how a college faculty is supposed to function. In his experience, such leaders can even be openly hostile to true shared governance, which, to their way of thinking, gives the faculty far too much power. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10