Full Description
Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies explores the experiences, strategies, and triumphs of women who have attained leadership roles within the academy as well as the shortfalls, disappointments, and battle scars many women leaders have experienced in their quest to lead. Clear direction, focused strategies, and enhanced communication are necessary to increase the ever-growing number of women in leadership positions in the academy. Contributions to this book discuss the ways in which these concepts have been employed to transcend the "academic ceiling" by creating mentoring networks for women, training programs, and other "ladders of ascension," encouraging future leaders to be more assertive, self-assured, and strategic within the academic terrain. Scholars of communication, education, and women's studies will find this volume particularly useful.
Contents
Chapter 1: At Long Lost: Women Presidents Communicating Leadership at HBCUs
Jayne Cubbage
Chapter 2: "You Ain't Neva Lied!": Isolation and the Meaning of Friendship for Two Sistahs in Leadership at HBCUs
Nicole Files-Thompson and L. Simone Byrd
Chapter 3: Black Diamonds: African-American Women Executives Embody Transformational Leadership at Community Colleges
Karima A. Haynes
Chapter 4: The Impact of Maternity Leave Advice within the Academy on Work-Life Balance of Women Faculty and Administrators
Pavitra Kavya and Michael W. Kramer
Chapter 5: When External Networks Bolster Internal Prestige: Establishing and Sustaining Support Systems for Black Women in the Academy
Sheryl Kennedy Haydel and Shearon Roberts
Chapter 6: Cultivating Feminist Reflexivity and Resilience in Leadership Communication
Stephanie Norander
Chapter 7: Communicating Lead(her)ship in the Academy: Navigating a Sea of Organizational Patriarchy
Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard III
Chapter 8: No Gentlemen's Agreement Here: Higher Education Reflections on Being Womanist and the Dialectics Present in an African-American Woman's Administrative Journey
Jeanetta D. Sims
Chapter 9: Enacting a Feminist Ecological Ethos of Leadership at a Christian Liberal Arts College
Sarah Stone Watt
Chapter 10: Contemplating Leadership: Struggles, Transformations, Transcendence
Mary Wildner-Bassett
