What is intellectual leadership and how might this concept be
better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research
into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues that it
is important to define and reclaim intellectual leadership as a
counter-weight to the prevailing managerial culture of higher
education. It contends that professors have been converted into
narrowly defined knowledge entrepreneurs and often feel excluded or
marginalised as leaders by their own universities. To fulfil their
role professors need to balance the privileges of academic freedom
with the responsibilities of academic duty. They exercise their
academic freedom as critics and advocates but they also need to be
mentors, guardians, enablers and ambassadors. Four orientations to
intellectual leadership are identified: knowledge producer,
academic citizen, boundary transgressor and public intellectual.
These orientations are illustrated by reference to the careers of
professors and show how intellectual leadership can be better
understood as a transformational activity. This book tackles the
question of what intellectual leadership actually is and analyses
the questions most frequently associated with the role of senior
academics, including:
- How can intellectual leadership be distinguished from other
forms of leadership and management?
- How can professors balance their responsibilities both within
and beyond the university?
- How can universities make better use of the expertise of
professors as leaders?
It concludes with recommendations for senior institutional
managers on how to make more effective use of the expertise and
leadership potential of the senior professoriate.
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