Who will be more beneficial to the research performance of public universities, an externally
recruited president or one promoted from the inside? Data on 392 president successions …

Objective/Research Question: Critical race theory (CRT) was used with a basic qualitative
study to interrogate how racism unfolds at community colleges and how Black community …

Position training and succession planning are important for aspiring senior community
college leaders and for university senior international educators. While mid-level …

We conducted a systematic literature review of 111 empirical studies published between
1969 and 2018. We found that research does not exponentially grow in comparison to …

Strategic plans are valuable tools for colleges seeking to cast vision and provide focused
guidance for leadership and faculty, but it is not clear how these plans address student …

The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) study was to
understand how higher education leaders experienced succession planning programs in …

This practical resource helps aspiring leaders demystify the challenges associated with
becoming a community college president. Building on existing scholarship and research …

The research presented by the contributors throughout this book illustrates the value of
intentionally linking Student Affairs success initiatives with the primacy and centrality of the …

College presidents and leadership teams have repeatedly engaged in strategic planning
processes over the past several decades, with the intention of creating frameworks that …

This study examined how recently appointed, first-time public university presidents made
sense of their new institution and position during their transition into their presidency. The …