Divided Conversations : Identities, Leadership, and Change in Public Higher Education
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2026
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- Title
- Divided Conversations : Identities, Leadership, and Change in Public Higher Education
- Author
- Wooding, John, Esterberg, Kristin G.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826518990
- ISBN 13
- 9780826518996
- Item weight
- 1.521 pounds
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Many faculty believe that one of their own who becomes an administrator has gone over to "the dark side." One provost recalled going for a beer with a faculty colleague and hearing the colleague complain about the latest memo "from the administration." He had to remind his friend of many years that he was the author of the offending document. Now he was "the administration." He realized that former colleagues now appeared in his office wearing suits and ties and referring to him by his title rather than his first name.
The disciplines serve as the tribes into which individual scholars are organized; the discipline is where a faculty member finds his community and identity. Administrators, on the other hand, identify with each other in trying to get the tribes to work together. Though most administrators came from the faculty ranks, their career paths take a different shape, especially in terms of mobility to another institution. It's not surprising that the two groups talk past each other.
A chapter is devoted to chairs of departments, who occupy an interesting middle ground. To their faculty, they can come across as a nurturing parent or a petty bureaucrat. The authors recommend training for chairs and administrative internships offered by the American Council on Education and other organizations.
The men and women on the campuses of the public universities described in the book make clear the challenges that universities face in terms of budgets, legislative politics, collective bargaining, rankings, and control of academic programs. If public institutions are truly to serve a public purpose, faculty and administrators must find ways to engage each other in shared conversation and management and find ways of engaging the university with the community.
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About the Author
John Wooding served as Provost at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA for four years, before returning to the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, where he was a founding faculty member and chair. He is the coauthor of two books on the work environment.
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