In international higher education jargon, what is expected from an academic leader/manager for the sustainability and success for an academic institution?
I don’t quite understand the Higher Education (HE) jargon part. However, the expectations from a leader in HE depends on several factors. The institutional environment and the extent to which resources and infrastructure/learning technologies are provided by the government to support HE to achieve its goals will also shape the objectives of leaders set for themselves and how much they can achieve.
Nowadays leaders are expected to find financial resources because of financial constraints under which they operate. This is because of the public management approaches which require measurable results. But what about the non-quantifiables?
Leadership in HE may have different levels and so teachers/lecturers, education coordinators, student leaders, the academic senate or even the vice chancellor, all have different roles and specific expectations. However, they all work towards one goal but in different functions.
In general terms, however, what is expected from each group is competence, responsibility towards the management of resources and ensuring that the main goal of higher education is advanced. These include teaching, research and acting as the custodians of knowledge production to advance society. This means preparing minds with skills and values to serve society in various capacities.
In so doing, leaders must adapt to the changing times by being visionary and using the best minds available to strategize based on values-based day-to-day running of the institutions/departments, units/courses/centres of excellence they lead.
Most importantly, they must communicate the vision with clarity…In essence, visionary leadership, responsibility and competence must be the defining characteristics that must guide leadership in HE.
I am agraid your answer does not exactly match my question. The question is, what should the major duties and responsibilities of a leader be?
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Nowadays leaders are expected to find financial resources because of financial constraints under which they operate. This is because of the public management approaches which require measurable results. But what about the non-quantifiables?
Leadership in HE may have different levels and so teachers/lecturers, education coordinators, student leaders, the academic senate or even the vice chancellor, all have different roles and specific expectations. However, they all work towards one goal but in different functions.
In general terms, however, what is expected from each group is competence, responsibility towards the management of resources and ensuring that the main goal of higher education is advanced. These include teaching, research and acting as the custodians of knowledge production to advance society. This means preparing minds with skills and values to serve society in various capacities.
In so doing, leaders must adapt to the changing times by being visionary and using the best minds available to strategize based on values-based day-to-day running of the institutions/departments, units/courses/centres of excellence they lead.
Most importantly, they must communicate the vision with clarity…In essence, visionary leadership, responsibility and competence must be the defining characteristics that must guide leadership in HE.
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