Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education

Published by Rutgers University Press 2020

Junctures in Women's Leadership

Higher Education

Edited by: Carmen Twillie Ambar , Carol T. Christ and Michele Ozumba
With contributions by: Leslee Ann Fisher , Carmen Twillie Ambar , Karen Lawrence , Patricia Pelfrey , Michele Ozumba , Susan Bourque , Marilyn Schuster , Carol T. Christ , Karen Stubaus , Jacquelyn Sue Litt , Elizabeth Kiss and Maureen Mahoney

In the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586243

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About this book

Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education brings into sharp focus the unique attributes of women leaders in the academy and adds a new dimension of analysis to the field of women’s leadership studies. The research presented in this volume reveals not only theoretical factors of academic leadership, but also real time dynamics that give the reader deeper insights into the multiple stakeholders and situations that require nimble, relationship-based leadership, in addition to intellectual competency. Women leaders interviewed in this volume include Bernice Sandler, Juliet Villarreal García, and Johnnetta Betsch Cole.

Author / Editor information

CARMEN TWILLIE AMBAR is the president of Oberlin College, Ohio.

CAROL T. CHRIST is chancellor at University of California, Berkeley.

MICHELE OZUMBA is the former president of Women’s College Coalition, a nonprofit membership organization of women’s colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

Reviews

"Each of the essays in this volume offers compelling examples of the transformative power of women’s leadership in higher education at all types of institutions. Beyond detailing familiar and persistent barriers that have slowed women’s progress at the highest levels in the academy, the authors showcase models for reforming institutional and organizational cultures in ways that promote structural change and value women’s authentic leadership styles."

— Lynn Pasquerella, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

"With these profiles of twelve extraordinary women, we gain rich, new insights into the myriad ways they both navigated—and transformed—higher education. Profoundly idealistic—and profoundly pragmatic—they are the role models we need at a time when women still have yet to win their fair share of top leadership roles. Read this book for its powerful lessons—and equally powerful inspiration.”

— Paula A. Johnson, President of Wellesley College

"The volume succeeds in its aim to provide examples of women’s leadership without essentialist understandings of a 'woman’s approach.' One of the volume’s strengths is the diversity of the women profiled and the variety of institutions they serve or served. It offers largely positive and sometimes glowing assessments of each woman profiled."

— Moveable Type

"A seminal and impressively informative work of outstanding and meticulous scholarship, Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education is a thoughtful and thought-provoking read and will prove to be an especially and welcome addition to Women's Studies curriculum reading lists."

— Midwest Book Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword to the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
New Foreword to the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Too Strong for a Woman: Bernice Sandler and the Birth of Title IX Leslee A. Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Ruth Simmons Carmen Twillie Ambar and Tyler Sloan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Nancy Cantor An Insider with Outsider Values Karen R. Lawrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Nannerl Keohane and the Women’s Initiative at Duke University Patricia A. Pelfrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Molly Corbett Broad Michele Ozumba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Reimagining Women’s Education: Jill Ker Conway, Smith College, and the Ada Comstock Scholars Program Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Intellectual Inquiry and Social Activism: Sister President Johnnetta Betsch Cole Marilyn R. Schuster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Hanna Holborn Gray and Graduate Education at the University of Chicago Carol T. Christ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Decolonializing across Broadway: The Barnard Presidency of Judith R. Shapiro Karen R. Stubaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
President Regina Peruggi of Kingsborough Community College: Transformative Leadership and Student Success Jacquelyn Litt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
The Reinventor Pat McGuire and the Transformation of Trinity Washington University Elizabeth Kiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
In Pursuit of Educational Access Juliet García Leading from within the Bureaucracy, against the Grain Maureen A. Mahoney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 222
Keywords: Women; leadership; leaders; Higher Education; Academics; Experiences; Perspective; Gender Roles; Gender Studies; Race; Institution; Culture; Institutional culture; Interviews; Research; Case Studies; Identity; Education; College; University

eBook

Published: September 17, 2020
ISBN: 9780813586243