Avoiding derailment: symbolic leadership and the university presidency

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Russell S. Thacker ◽  
Sydney Freeman
Keyword(s):  
University Presidency ◽  
Symbolic Leadership ◽  
The University

The University Presidency Today

Science ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 237 (4816) ◽  
pp. 705-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. MULLER
Keyword(s):  
University Presidency ◽  
The University

Some Thoughts on the University Presidency

1960 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold W. Dodds
Keyword(s):  
University Presidency ◽  
The University

The Eisenhower Solution, 1948–1952

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Ivy League ◽  
University Presidency ◽  
Republican Candidate ◽  
The University ◽  
Republican Nomination

Stassen’s failure to win the Republican nomination for president in June 1948 did not quench his thirst for high office. Robert T. McCracken, chairman of the University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees, offered Stassen the university presidency in July, and the board elected him on September 17, 1948. The enthusiasm he aroused among college students as a Republican candidate convinced him that higher education had always been in the forefront of his ambitions. Stassen saw himself in the same light as Eisenhower, who had accepted the presidency of Columbia University. As the president of a prestigious Ivy League university, he could ensure his prominence in national affairs. For four years, Stassen walked a delicate line between his university obligations and his political ambitions. Inevitably, he had to confront criticism over his extracurricular activities. However, the possibility of a cabinet appointment in a Dewey administration became irrelevant when President Truman won the election in November.

University Leadership—More Complicated and More Critical Than Ever

2018 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Holden Thorp ◽  
Buck Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
University Leadership ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
University Presidency ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The University ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

In 2012, the rectors of the University of Virginia carried out a failed attempt to oust President Teresa Sullivan, demonstrating how a lack of understanding of shared governance and the importance of the internal dynamics of a university can frustrate university trustees. Bart Giamatti said that a university presidency is “a mid-nineteenth-century ecclesiastical position on top of a late-twentieth-century corporation.” While trustees have some important formal powers, most of their influence is informal and has to be navigated within the internal customs and traditions of the university. Two leaders who have navigated these dynamics successfully but in very different ways are Mark Wrighton and Gordon Gee.

scholarly journals E-Management System of Kirkuk University Based on Distributed Database

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Banaz Anwer Qader ◽  
Kamal Hasan Jihad ◽  
Yalmaz Najm Alddeen Taher
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Distributed Databases ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Distributed Database ◽  
Management Technique ◽  
University Management ◽  
University Presidency ◽  
The University

This research includes an analytical study of the administrative and scientific work in departments, branchs and units of the Kirkuk University Presidency. It aims to convert the traditional routine work to the electronic work at the university by applying E-Management technique as one of the required modern logical solutions most commonly used to facilitate the difficulty of managing the vast amount of documents and delaying workflow that facing most institutions and organizations. In view of the increasing and urgent need for the use of E-Management systems throughout all the departments of the university presidency, the Electronic Distributed Kirkuk University Management System (E-DKUMS) is designed by using of Distributed Databases (DDB) technique, as well as using of electronic network infrastructure (LAN) that connects all the university configurations. The results of system implementation demonstrated that it is distinguished with high performance and speed, very high reliability and security, as well as very few employment cost. Test and evaluation results proved the ability of the system to facilitate the progress of managerial functions, reduce the time and effort, and capability of restructuring the administrative structure because of its excellence with flexibility in the creation and deletion departments, branches, and units for the system; in addition to easily troubleshot and fast execution.

Proceedings of The Modern Language Association of America

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1343
Keyword(s):  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
Tuesday Morning ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
The University ◽  
Plaza Hotel

The fifty-second meeting of the Modern Language Associationof America was held, on the invitation of the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 30 and 31, 1935, and January 1, 1936. The Association headquarters were in the Netherland Plaza Hotel, where all meetings were held except those of Tuesday morning and afternoon. These took place at the University of Cincinnati. Registration cards at headquarters were signed by about 900, though a considerably larger number of members were in attendance. The Local Committee estimated the attendance at not less than 1400. This Committee consisted of Professor Frank W. Chandler, Chairman; Professor Edwin H. Zeydel; Professor Phillip Ogden; Mr. John J. Rowe (for the Directors); and Mr. Joseph S. Graydon (for the Alumni).

Spectrophotometric reductions with an IBM 1620

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Spectrophotometric Data ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.

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