Servant Leadership for Higher Education: Principles and Practices

Daniel W. Wheeler

John Wiley & Sons, Feb 1, 2012 - Education - 208 pages

SERVANT LEADERSHIP
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

"Given the myriad of complex problems facing higher education, it is difficult to imagine that an administrator at any level of the institution could be effective without engaging in servant leadership. Higher education is a service industry and, consequently, this text is a must read for practicing administrators who are committed to effective leadership."
MARY LOU HIGGERSON, Ph.D., vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the college, Baldwin-Wallace College

"Finally a thoughtful book on servant leadership with direct application to higher education. Includes many strategies for developing servant leadership in self, others, and organizations."
DR. GARY L. FILAN, executive director, Chair Academy

"With Servant Leadership for Higher Education Dan Wheeler brings the gauzy platitudes sometimes associated with servant leadership down to earth in a set of field-tested principles. I finished the book fantasizing about how much better off our colleges and universities would be if our leaders behaved like this!"
JON WERGIN, professor of educational studies, Ph.D. in Leadership & Change Program, Antioch University

"This is a must read for anyone thinking about becoming an academic leader. In the academy, it is not about command and control it's about serving your colleagues. Dan Wheeler's book 'nails it' as nothing is more critical to leaders than success in serving their colleagues."
WALTER GMELCH, dean and professor, School of Education, University of San Francisco

Contents

• Highest Priority: 34
• Facilitate Meeting the Needs: 46
• Foster Problem Solving: 61
• Promote Emotional Healing: 81
• Means Are as Important as Ends: 93
• Keep One Eye on the Present: 102
• Embrace Paradoxes and Dilemmas: 114
• Leave a Legacy to Society: 127
• Model Servant Leadership: 141
• Develop More Servant Leaders: 149
• Care and Feeding of Servant Leaders: 156
• Some Common Questions Myths Regarding: 166
• References: 173
• Index: 179

About the author

DANIEL W. WHEELER is professor emeritus of Leadership Studies and former head of the Department of Agriculture Leadership, Education, and Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Previously he was coordinator of the Office of Professional and Organizational Development at Nebraska. He consults and leads workshops in all of these areas in the United States and internationally.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Servant Leadership for Higher Education: Principles and Practices; Jossey-Bass resources for department chairs
• Author: Daniel W. Wheeler
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012
• ISBN: 1118008901, 9781118008904
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Education / Administration / General; Education / General