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LGBTQ Leadership in Higher Education's greatest value is its documentation of LGBTQ+ leadership voices and experiences. The collection of experiences and viewpoints is important to the recognition of LGBTQ+ leaders and is a vital resource to especially prospective leaders.
For LGBTQ individuals, this intimate and inspirational quality of the text is what makes it such a generative tool for learning. For others, I imagine it will be illuminating in the ways it speaks to things outside their realm of experience, aspects of identity they've never considered, and most importantly, the ways they may unwittingly be upholding systems of oppression.
This is a book whose time has come. Once there were only a handful of openly LGBTQ college and university presidents. Now that numbers have grown and continue to grow, it is important to learn from one another's stories and to share them more broadly. This collection offers wisdom and solidarity. Pass it along.
LGBTQ Leadership in Higher Education offers provocative and thoughtful reflections on what it means to be a gay leader in higher education, how position intersects with identity to create both challenges and opportunities. It's an authentic and moving book.
This is a moving and timely anthology that lets us understand both the personal struggles and political visions of LGBTQ presidents of diverse colleges and universities. This collection insists that LGBTQ presidents enjoy privilege and bear responsibility toward a community whose lives are often marginalized and imperiled. The reflections here document their continuing commitment to support LGBTQ communities who have every right to flourish without fear of discrimination and violence.
Through testimonials told directly from the experience and perspective of out LGBTQ presidents, Raymond Crossman's LGBTQ Leadership in Higher Education chronicles the reality of the proverbial glass ceiling for out LGBTQ leaders, whose numbers are still astonishingly small because of homophobia and the traditionally heteronormative cultural and social framing that surrounds university presidencies. This book should be required reading not only for aspiring LGBTQ leaders but also for boards of trustees who are ultimately in the best position to effect change in the American college and university presidency.
This is an important book by and about the remarkable group of pioneering LGBTQ presidents who are among the first generation to rise to the top leadership position in institutions of higher education. Their stories, personally recounted here, also draw lessons about the unique leadership qualities they collectively and individually brought to bear in the increasingly challenging world of the twenty-first century.
With reports of university leadership mired in (hetero)sexual harassment and unequal (hetero)sexual relationships appearing regularly in the news, we must listen to these presidents and chancellors who narrate how queer and feminist leadership will lead the way to more equitable and just institutions. Required reading for anyone seeking to realize their own academic leadership, whether as a department chair, dean, or chancellor.
This book documents the important changes that have occurred in who is considered for the presidency—and the greater talent pool and diverse perspectives this affords American higher education. These LGBTQ presidents' individual stories are moving, humorous, sometimes distressing, and always inspirational. Although the institutions they lead and their own career trajectories vary widely, these presidents share a commitment to equity and access informed by their own life experiences.
Centering LGBTQ+ diverse intersectional experiences and narrative histories (including ongoing challenges/opportunities), these authors candidly explore distinct leadership journeys that invoke relevant considerations for current, emerging, and future leaders across higher education and beyond.
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Trim Size
5.5
x 8.5
Pages
200
ISBN
9781421444079
Table of Contents
Preface, by Charles R. Middleton
Introduction
Raymond E. Crossman
1. Identifying LGBTQ Leadership
Erika Endrijonas • Karen Whitney • Raymond E. Crossman
2. Feminist Leadership
Katherine Hancock Ragsdale •
Preface, by Charles R. Middleton
Introduction
Raymond E. Crossman
1. Identifying LGBTQ Leadership
Erika Endrijonas • Karen Whitney • Raymond E. Crossman
2. Feminist Leadership
Katherine Hancock Ragsdale • Terry L. Allison • Erika Endrijonas
3. Intersectionality and Leadership
DeRionne Pollard • Raymond E. Crossman • Nancy "Rusty" Barceló
4. Coming Out and Being Out
Ralph J. Hexter • James Gandre • Regina Stanback Stroud
5. Leading Inclusion on the Campus
Regina Stanback Stroud • Erika Endrijonas • Daniel López, Jr.
6. Leading in a Heteronormative/Heterosexist World
Raymond E. Crossman • Richard J. Helldobler • Theodora J. Kalikow
7. Leading in a Homophobic World
Terry L. Allison • Karen Whitney • Susan E. Henking
8. Mentorship
Theodora J. Kalikow • Richard J. Helldobler • Terry L. Allison
9. Self-Care
James Gandre • Katherine Hancock Ragsdale • Theodora J. Kalikow
10. Presidents and Partners
Ralph J. Hexter • James Gandre and Boris Thomas • Karen Whitney and Peggy Apple
11. Becoming a LGBTQ President or Leader
Karen Whitney • James Gandre • Katherine Hancock Ragsdale
12. The Future of the LGBTQ Presidency and Leadership
Ralph J. Hexter
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