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Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive

By Susan Resneck Pierce, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, May 2014. ISBN: 978-1-118-73849-8 As pressures mount in the academic world, more …

On Being Presidential: A Guide for College and University Leaders

By Susan Resneck Pierce, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, November 2011. ISBN 978-1-118-02776-9 Adequate training is hard to come by and …

Ellison’s Invisible Man (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)

By Susan Resneck Pierce (Parr), Modern Language Association of America; 1 edition (January 1, 1989). ISBN: 978-0873525060 …

The Moral of the Story: Literature, Values and American Education

By Susan Resneck Parr, Teachers College Pr (September 1982). ISBN: 978-0807727164 …

Beyond Incrementalism

Beyond Incrementalism

In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy, writes Susan Resneck Pierce.

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Beyond Incrementalism

Beyond Incrementalism

In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy, writes Susan Resneck Pierce.

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Leadership and Community in Tumultuous Times

Leadership and Community in Tumultuous Times

Those of us who were college presidents on Sept. 11 understood that our larger society would be changed in significant ways. But even as we all feared an unknown future, including possible new terrorist attacks, we nevertheless sought to help our campuses both mourn the victims of that horrendous act and come together even more deliberately as a community.

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Talking Presidents Off the Ledge

Talking Presidents Off the Ledge

Originally published: "Talking Presidents Off the Ledge," Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2018 College presidents today are confronting challenges that they did not create and often can’t control, writes Susan Resneck Pierce. I’ve been receiving an unprecedented number of...

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Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Originally published: "Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence," Inside Higher Ed, February 28, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s assertion that faculty members tell students what to say and think distorts a basic fact: most professors are dedicated to...

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Hope and Denial are Not Strategies

Hope and Denial are Not Strategies

Originally published: "Hope and Denial are Not Strategies," Inside Higher Ed, January 31, 2017 Today a great many American colleges and universities -- ranging from those that, at least for now, seem reasonably secure to those that are hanging on by just a slight...

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Shared Governance in Crisis

Shared Governance in Crisis

Originally published: "Shared Governance in Crisis," Inside Higher Ed, February 16, 2016 The events in recent weeks at Mount St. Mary’s University and Suffolk University have abruptly shattered notions of shared governance, to the detriment of their campuses, argues...

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