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Kuk and Banning offer readers a new lens for viewing leadership,
one that goes beyond a focus on the behavior and values of leaders
as individuals to examine how positional leaders interact with
their environments to engage in leadership "in context". This book
is addressed to aspiring and senior student affairs officers and
offers a new "ecological" framework that recognizes that today's
leaders are affected by factors they may not control, and work
within an environment they cannot expect to mold solely through
their execution of skills and strategies. Based on research
supported through a grant from the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Foundation, this book explores
leadership as an interactive process within varied environmental
contexts, and though an analysis of the transactional process
between the leader, the organizational members and the various
components of the organizations environment. It describes how
leaders deploy differing competencies, skills and strategies in
varied contexts, and how they choose to use past experiences, their
training and personal characteristics to set priorities and
navigate the cultural, social, physical, legal and political,
resource, and ethical environments of their organizations. Several
chapters conclude with an account of how the experiences of the
SSAO participants in the research informed their practice of
leadership and understanding of how leadership actually works.
Kuk and Banning offer readers a new lens for viewing leadership,
one that goes beyond a focus on the behavior and values of leaders
as individuals to examine how positional leaders interact with
their environments to engage in leadership "in context". This book
is addressed to aspiring and senior student affairs officers and
offers a new "ecological" framework that recognizes that today's
leaders are affected by factors they may not control, and work
within an environment they cannot expect to mold solely through
their execution of skills and strategies. Based on research
supported through a grant from the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Foundation, this book explores
leadership as an interactive process within varied environmental
contexts, and though an analysis of the transactional process
between the leader, the organizational members and the various
components of the organizations environment. It describes how
leaders deploy differing competencies, skills and strategies in
varied contexts, and how they choose to use past experiences, their
training and personal characteristics to set priorities and
navigate the cultural, social, physical, legal and political,
resource, and ethical environments of their organizations. Several
chapters conclude with an account of how the experiences of the
SSAO participants in the research informed their practice of
leadership and understanding of how leadership actually works.
In addressing the unique issues related to the delivery of student
services in the community college setting, this book fills a
longstanding need to provide practitioners with a contextual
framework for their work. Starting by providing the historical
context to the development of student affairs in community
colleges, this handbook describes the organization of key functions
and current practice, and looks at the specific constraints,
opportunities, changes and future challenges that practitioners
face. Community colleges are grappling with: the realities of
shrinking resources; an increasingly diverse and disparate student
body, with many attending part-time; demands for greater
accountability; a generational change in leadership; and pressures
to expand their missions as well as adopt educational technology -
all of which have an impact on the role of student affairs. Among
the topics covered are: Partnering with Academic Affairs; Financing
Student Affairs; Legal and Policy Issues; Strategic Planning and
Assessment; Accreditation and Accountability; Technology for
Communication and Engagement; Academic Support Services; Student
Life and Student Engagement Programs and Services; Enrollment
Management; and Services for Special Populations. This handbook is
intended for student affairs administrators and professionals at
all stages of their careers, as well as for students in graduate
preparation programs.
In addressing the unique issues related to the delivery of student
services in the community college setting, this book fills a
longstanding need to provide practitioners with a contextual
framework for their work. Starting by providing the historical
context to the development of student affairs in community
colleges, this handbook describes the organization of key functions
and current practice, and looks at the specific constraints,
opportunities, changes and future challenges that practitioners
face. Community colleges are grappling with: the realities of
shrinking resources; an increasingly diverse and disparate student
body, with many attending part-time; demands for greater
accountability; a generational change in leadership; and pressures
to expand their missions as well as adopt educational technology -
all of which have an impact on the role of student affairs. Among
the topics covered are: Partnering with Academic Affairs; Financing
Student Affairs; Legal and Policy Issues; Strategic Planning and
Assessment; Accreditation and Accountability; Technology for
Communication and Engagement; Academic Support Services; Student
Life and Student Engagement Programs and Services; Enrollment
Management; and Services for Special Populations. This handbook is
intended for student affairs administrators and professionals at
all stages of their careers, as well as for students in graduate
preparation programs.
Student affairs organisations are at a crossroads. They face
expanding enrolments; a concomitant increase need for often more
complex services; changing demographics; a growing cohort of
non-traditional and first-generation students; shifting and more
demanding responsibilities; and increased expectations from the
greater campus community, parents, and external constituents. These
challenges are intensified by the accelerating speed of
advancements in technology, globalisation, innovation, and student
consumerism; and by the long-term reality of shrinking resources,
and limitations on the ability to increase tuition and fees. This
book shares alternative ideas about organisational design, and
about ways to restructure roles and responsibilities to enable
student affairs organisations to respond to these challenges and
demands more effectively at a time of reduced resources. It also
addresses the many emerging roles that student affairs
organisations are increasingly being expected to address - such as
IT, fund raising and development, external communications, human
resources management and professional development, as well as
research and assessment - and describes approaches developed by a
variety of institutions. The contributors also pay attention to the
solutions appropriate for smaller institutions, and for community
colleges. They explore the various dimensions of change and offer
frameworks to help student affairs leaders and practitioners to
more effectively understand and manage the changes they are
confronting; and describe ideas and solutions adopted by others
within the profession.
At a time of increasing student diversity, concern about security,
demand for greater accountability, and of economic difficulty, what
does the future hold for higher education, and how can student
affairs organizations adapt to the increasing and changing demands?
How can university leaders position existing resources to
effectively address these and other emerging challenges with a
sense of opportunity rather than dread? How can organizations be
redesigned to sustain change while achieving excellence?As student
affairs organizations have grown and become increasingly complex in
order to meet new demands, they have often emphasized the expansion
of their missions to the detriment of focusing on understanding
their roles in relationship to other units, to reviewing their
cultures and structures, and to considering how they can improve
their effectiveness as organizations. This book provides the tools
for organizational analysis and sustainability.Intended for
practitioners, graduate students, interns and student affairs
leaders, this book presents the key ideas and concepts from
business-oriented organizational behavior and change theories, and
demonstrates how they can be useful in, and be applied to, student
affairs practice and, in particular, how readers can use these
theories to sustain change and enhance their organization s ability
to adapt to complex emerging challenges. At the same time it holds
to values and perspectives that support the human dimension of
organizational life.Recognizing the complexity of today s
organizations and the value of viewing them from multiple
perspectives, this book follows the emerging practice of providing
three general epistemological perspectives the Positivist, Social
Constructionist, and Postmodernist for analyzing often paradoxical
organizational structures, environments, and behavior.The book
explores the environmental context of student affairs, and how the
organization interacts with both the internal and external
environments; examines the human dimension of organizations,
through a review of individual attributes, human need and
motivation, social comparison theory and organizational learning
theory; presents the dimensions of structure and design theory and
discusses why student affairs organizations need to think
differently about how they organize their resources; considers the
context and process of organizational change, and the dynamics of
decision making, power, conflict and communication; addresses the
role of assessment and evaluation; and new forms of leadership.Each
chapter opens with a case study, and closes with a set of
reflective questions.The authors have all served as practitioners
within student affairs and now teach and advise graduate students
and future leaders in the field."
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