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Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college campuses. In an increasingly corporatized environment, grassroots leadership can provide a balance to the prestige- and revenue-seeking impulses of traditional campus leaders, create changes in the teaching and learning core, build greater equity, improve relationships among campus stakeholders, and enhance the student experience. This book documents the stories of grassroots leaders, including their motivation and background, the tactics and strategies that they use, the obstacles that they overcome, and the ways that they navigate power and join with formal authority. This investigation also highlights the fact that grassroots leaders, particularly in more marginalized groups, can face significant backlash. The authors end with a discussion of the future of leadership on college campuses, examining the possibilities for shared and collaborative forms of guidance and governance.

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"[This book] provides insightful critique of status quo organizations, and theoretical and practical strategies for making differences and building capacity throughout an institution. . . Overall, Kezar and Lester make a significant contribution to the literature that connects to prior work by Tull, Hirt, and Saunders, Amey and Reesor, Hirt, Kuk, Banning and Amey, and others who remind readers of the importance of understanding your context, how it works, what is of value in it, and how to create opportunities and influence regardless of your location in the organization. . . It is an important book for all of us in higher education."―Marilyn J. Amney, Journal of College Student Development

"[Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership] is the first research book of its kind to look at how bottom-up leadership (leadership from faculty and staff) can operate and succeed within the academy . . . The authors are to be congratulated for bringing us such a thoroughly researched study about non-positional, bottom-up leadership in higher education."―Helen S. Astin, The Review of Higher Education

"Grassroots leadership is one of the most promising approaches to replenishing higher learning by helping to bring greater clarity and cohesion to our nation's colleges and universities. Ideas are precious, and this text advances several promising ones―not only for enriching the literature on leadership for change, but also the daily lives of those of us who believe that we need to work together to bring about a meaningful future. What a pleasure to read a book in which one feels that one is in conversation with the authors. This is an exemplary piece of work."―Clifton Conrad, University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook on Research in Education: Ideas as the Keystone of Exemplary Inquiry, Second Edition

"This exemplar of case study design examines grassroots change initiatives in higher education to reveal the shifting nature of faculty and staff leadership in increasingly corporatized colleges and universities. Kezar and Lester highlight the dynamics of power in contemporary institutions, offering strategies for negotiating those dynamics. The voices of the research participants authentically and vividly demonstrate the power and process of leadership without formal authority."―Suzanne Estler, University of Maine

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Adrianna J. Kezar is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Southern California. Jaime Lester is Associate Professor of Higher Education at George Mason University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stanford University Press; 1st edition (July 26, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804776474
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804776479
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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This book offers examples of how execute grassroots change for both faculty and staff, including with generalizable frameworks for multiple types of institutions.

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Kezar and Lester have written another excellent work that describes research they have done in the higher education space that identifies the similarities and differences of the higher education sector compared to other sectors. In this book, the authors examine grassroots leadership, and compare it in the higher education context with research on traditional leadership in higher education, as well as grassroots leadership in the community and corporate settings.

This book focuses on Kezar and Lester's case study research of grassroots leadership at five campuses: community college, private research university, public regional university, public technical college, and private liberal arts college. The case studies include stories of grassroots leaders and leadership at each of the campuses that illustrate Kezar and Lester's research findings.

The authors note that the importance of grassroots leadership is increasing on college campuses because of a number of factors. Among the factors that contribute to the increased importance of grassroots leadership include a noted decline in shared governance, increased academic capitalism (a "market" mentality), increased pressure on faculty to spend more time on research and scholarship in addition to teaching, and increasing percentages of contingent faculty that tend to have little input into campus governance.

The work describes obstacles that grassroots leaders encounter, tactics used, power dynamics encountered, and approaches that grassroots leaders can leverage to retain resiliency over the long term.

The research uncovered a couple of notable findings. Kezar and Lester identified that grassroots leadership in higher education has unique qualities not found in community or corporate settings because of the strategies and tactics needed to fit within an education context. Additionally, the research examined the convergence of top-down and bottom-up leadership areas from the standpoint of bottom-up leadership, rather viewing it from the top-down aspect.

Overall, I found the book very readable and instructive. The research findings point to solid strategies and tactics that can be used to enhance and support grassroots leadership at college campuses with different cultural contexts. Additionally, Kezar and Lester's research indicates other interesting directions for future research in this area.

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