Universities struggle to create cultures that provide a welcoming home for women and underrepresented minorities. Department chairs often emerge reluctantly from among the faculty and are ill prepared to engage faculty and staff to achieve deep culture change, yet their role is vital if such change is to occur.
The Solution.
Recognizing a need for a completely new type of leader, Ohio State created the President and Provost’s Leadership Institute (PPLI) to develop a pool of women and underrepresented minority faculty who might move into leadership positions.
The Stakeholders.
The PPLI can provide a useful template for HRD practitioners who wish to tailor leadership development and succession planning strategies to address higher education’s unique culture and leadership pool challenges. For institutions interested in broadening the diversity of individuals prepared to lead, and developing leaders prepared to lead change, the PPLI is an example of one successful approach.
BenschopY.BrounsM. (2003). Crumbling ivory towers: Academic organizing and its gender effects. Gender, Work and Organization, 10. 194-212.
7.
BowmanR. F. (2002). The real work of the department chair. Clearing House, 75, 158-162.
8.
BurgoyneJ.MacknessJ.WilliamsS. (2009). Research and development series: Baseline study of leadership development in higher education, 2009, final report. London, UK: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/publications/lfresearch/
GilliganC. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women’s development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
13.
HechtI. W. D.HiggersonM. L.GmelchW. H.TuckerA. (1999). The department chair as academic leader. Westport, CT: American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education.
KlootL. (2004). Women and leadership in universities: A case study of women academic managers. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 17, 470-485.
16.
LucasA. F. (1994). Strengthening departmental leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
17.
LucasA. F. (2000). Leading academic change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
18.
MIT Committee on Women Faculty. (1999, March). A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT. MIT Faculty Newsletter, 11(4). Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html
19.
MorleyC.BellamyS.JacksonM.O’NeillM. (2002). Attitudinal barriers to women’s career progression in accounting in Australia. Australian Accounting Review, 12(1), 64-72.
NiemeierD. A.GonzálezC. (2004). Breaking into the guildmasters’ club: What we know about women science and engineering department chairs at AAU universities [Electronic version]. Feminist Formations, 16, 157-171.
SagariaM. A. D.PruittA. S.GagneP. (1992). Inside administrative recruitment and selection of minorities and women at The Ohio State University. Unpublished manuscript, The Ohio State University, OH, USA.
24.
SinclairA. (1998). Doing leadership differently. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
