Rethinking Student Affairs Practice

by Love, Patrick G.; Estanek, Sandra M.

• ISBN13: 9780787962142
• ISBN10: 0787962147
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-05
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which they work, and must be able to work within them. These structures are often characterized by a rigid division of labor and an expectation that good managers can predict the outcomes of their efforts and can and should exercise control over the inputs. However, to be effective leaders, they must be able to perceive new possibilities beyond those structures and expectations. How can they do both?Rethinking Student Affairs Practice offers an answer to that question. Love and Estanek challenge their readers to perceive their responsibilities, institutions, and relationships through multiple lenses. They have developed a model for change based in four concepts that will help their readers do this. The four concepts are valuing dualisms, transcending paradigms, recognizing connectedness, and embracing paradox.

Author Biography

Sandra M. Estanek is assistant professor of graduate education and leadership and director of the master's program in College Student Personnel Administration at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Conceptual Framework: Lessons from the New Science	p. 1
Seeing Processes Differently: How We Work	p. 27
Pervasive Leadership	p. 29
Intrapreneurship: Pervasive Leadership in Action	p. 67
Developing an Assessment Mindset	p. 83
Seeing Resources Differently: What We Work With	p. 119
Rethinking Resources	p. 121
Technology as Brush, Paint, and Artist	p. 153
Seeing Beyond the Horizon: Emerging Competencies	p. 171
Adopting a Global Perspective	p. 173
Futures Forecasting	p. 187
Rethinking Reviewed: Mindsets and Actions	p. 207
References	p. 217
Index	p. 227
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.