1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787464103321

Autore

Gmelch Walter H (Walter Howard), <1947->

Titolo

Building academic leadership capacity : a guide to best practice / / Walter H. Gmelch, Jeffrey L. Buller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-98930-9

1-118-98931-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series

Classificazione

EDU015000

Disciplina

378.1/01

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Administration

Educational leadership

College administrators

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  The Authors Preface Chapter 1: The Call for Academic Leadership Development Chapter 2: Strategy Chapter 3: Structure Chapter 4: Systems Chapter 5: Staff Chapter 6: Skills Chapter 7: Style Chapter 8: Shared Values Chapter 9: Putting It All Together: Comprehensive Academic Leadership Appendix Resource Guide 1: Academic Leadership Programs at the National Level Resource Guide 2: Academic Leadership Programs at the System Level Resource Guide 3: Academic Leadership Programs at the Institutional Level .

Sommario/riassunto

"A clear, systematic road map to effective campus leadership developmentBuilding Academic Leadership Capacity gives institutions the knowledge they need to invest in the next generation of academic leaders. With a clear, generalizable, systematic approach, this book provides insight into the elements of successful academic leadership and the training that makes it effective. Readers will explore original research that facilitates systematic, continuous program development, augmented by the authors' own insight drawn from experience establishing such programs. Numerous examples of current campus programs illustrate the concepts in action, and reflection questions lead readers to assess how they can apply these concepts to their own



programs.The academic leader is the least studied and most misunderstood management position in America. Demands for accountability and the complexities of higher education leadership are increasing, and institutions need ways to shape leaders at the department chair, dean, and executive levels of all functions and responsibilities. This book provides a road map to an effective development program, whether the goal is to revamp an existing program or build one from the ground up. Readers will learn to:  Develop campus leadership programs in a more systematic manner  Examine approaches that have been proven effective at other institutions  Consider how these approaches could be applied to your institution  Give leaders the skills they need to overcome any challenge  The field of higher education offers limited opportunity to develop leaders, so institutions must invest in and grow campus leaders themselves. All development programs are not created equal, so it's important to have the most effective methods in place from day one. For the institution seeking a better way to invest in the next generation of campus leaders, Building Academic Leadership Capacity is a valuable resource"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808690903321

Autore

Britton Dennis Austin

Titolo

Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5717-7

0-8232-6083-6

0-8232-5715-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004120LIT015000

Disciplina

820.9/382

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Religion and literature - England - History - 16th century

Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century

Conversion in literature

Christians in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race” -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- 5. Reproducing Christians -- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities. Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a



theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation. Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape.