Leadership Legacy Moments: Visions and Values for Stewards of Collegiate Mission [Paperback]

Written for college leaders at all levels as well as for trustees, this book engages the reader, via narrative and analysis, with the reflective and practical knowledge essential to a constructive legacy. Leaders of colleges and universities hold in trust an enterprise of complex mission, governance, and outcome. Most will take office with accompanying media celebration of their past records and future promise. Each will exit with a legacy. A few will leave behind tragic legacies of defeated spirits, corrupted organizations, and shameful ethical records. We may hope for collegiate leaders who will leave behind faculty and staff talents of greater promise, worthy goals achieved in concert with faculty and staff, and value cultures that inspire curiosity, courage, and compassion.E. Grady Bogueis Professor of Higher Education Administration and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee. Bogue was, for 11 years, Chancellor of Louisiana State University in Shreveport, and for one year Interim Chancellor of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He held a number of other high-level academic positions with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and at the University of Memphis. Dr. Bogue has written eight books. Of his latest, one is with Praeger (Quality and Accountability in Higher Education, 2003), and one with ACE/Oryx (Exploring the Heritage of American Higher Education, 2000).

Bogue (Univ. of Tennessee) gleans meaningful insights about the culture of effective leadership from the personal stories of college leaders as well as his own personal experiences. The book consists of 12 chapters that explain by illustrations and examples how the stewards of collegiate mission--college leaders at all levels including trustees-- can and should function. He also discusses pitfalls to be avoided as college leaders try to construct an ethical legacy. The book is written in an engaging style that explains how ideas and values inform one another. The bolóH