Leadership in Turbulent Times

Gaëtane Jean-Marie is Dean of the College of Education and Professor of Educational Leadership at Rowan University. She is the editor of Studies in Educational Administration Series and serves as chair of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) and board member on the Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutions (CADREI).Henry Tran is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policies. Tran is the Director of the Talent Centered Education Leadership Initiative and Co-director of the Center for Innovation in Higher Education.

This book updates critical perspectives on leadership, including the roles of evolving technology and of the pandemic in shaping new demands for postsecondary education. In challenging the entrenched view that access and excellence are incompatible, it offers essential guidance on how leaders can address current and future challenges in the field.

• Chapter 1. The Algorithm Arm Race: How Justice became a Business in Post-Covid Higher Education; Jessica Jennrich Chapter 2. Leading Transformational Change in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education; Sequetta F. Sweet Chapter 3. Work Life Balance for Women in Higher Education; Kymia Jackson Chapter 4. Women of Color as Outsiders Within the Borders of Academic Leadership; Simone A. F. Gause Chapter 5. Education Workplace Inclusion Initiatives and Strategies to Cultivate Human Capacity Today; Wendy Maragh Taylor Chapter 6. The Table at Berkeley: An Ethnodrama Recounting the Experiences of Bisexual faculty and Staff Navigating the Workplace; Martha Kakooza and Sean Robinson Chapter 7. #BlackWomenAtWork: Lessons learned from Black women educators at Historically White Institutions; Christina Wright Fields and Gloria L. Howell Chapter 8. “What do I do now?” Transitions of a Foster Kid: A Personal Narrative; Chamika L. Ellis Chapter 9. Black Hair and Hair Texture: Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion for Black Women in Higher Education; Kernysha L. Rowe Chapter 10. Strange Fruit: The Collective Crushing of Black Women in Academe; Valerie J. Thompson and Crystal Coles Chapter 11. Equity vs. Excellence? How Institutional Definitions of "Talent” Can be Antithetical to Workplace Inclusion in Academia and What Can Be Done; Henry Tran and Spencer Platt