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St. Joseph's College
University of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
When Archbishop Henry O’Leary became the second archbishop of Edmonton in 1920, he had a dream to build a western Canada Catholic college that would educate students in the Christian intellectual tradition.This is the story of how a small Roman Catholic institution confronted daunting challenges to...
by Douglas E. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency of Columbia University (1948-1953) is among the least written about periods of his career. It is all but dismissed by historians as a mere interlude between his service as World War II’s most celebrated general and his two terms as president of the United States....
Schools for Ontario
Policy-making, Administration, and Finance in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The governing and financing of public education is everywhere a complex undertaking. The 1960s was for Ontario a vital decade in education, when the structure of local school boards, provincial and federal financing and control, the provision of academic and vocational systems, and the Department...
Women Veterans
Lifting the Veil of Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Women who fight in wars also have to fight for their right to do so. But what are the obstacles impeding their progress in achieving equal status as both active service members and as veterans? This book, written by a team of female veterans and military scholars, demonstrates the ways in which women...
Called to Serve
The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Called to Serve, founding director Charles F. Hermann and writer Sally Dee Wade chronicle the twenty-year history of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, which has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s major professional graduate schools of public and international affairs.
The...
The Trusted Leader
Building the Relationships that Make Government Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Improving government on a macro level is only possible with public managers who herald change on a micro level. While many studies of government reform focus on new policies and programs, these public managers—building relationships built on trust—are the real drivers behind many successful reforms.
In...
Navigating CouRage
A Black Woman's Journey in Athletics and Academia
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Navigating Courage follows the leadership journey of Dr. Robin Martin, a first-generation college graduate whose career illustrates the personal and professional risks that lurk behind every opportunity afforded women of color in the workplace. On the surface, Dr. Martin was living the dream. She...
by Don Philpott, Michael Kuenstle
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
In the last decade, more than 300 violent deaths have occurred in or near school campuses. The killers, their motivations and backgrounds, and levels of damage inflicted vary, but our response and our goal remains singular: to protect our schools and keep those within them safe. This handbook seeks...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this second edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with brand new chapters from leaders in the field Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris.
Providing an overview of essential...
Partnership Governance in Public Management
A Public Solutions Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor. Partnerships between the public and private sectors allow each to enjoy the benefits of the other: the public sector benefits from increased entrepreneurship...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The number of staff members serving American higher education institutions has more than doubled in the past twenty years, as occupations in technology, development, government relations, and even athletic administration have grown as never before in the history of the academy. As the number, variety,...
Impact
How Assistant Principals Can Be High Performing Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Far too little attention has been paid to the role that assistant principals have in the development of high performing schools*. Impact* provides specific, practical, and replicable leadership strategies for today’s assistant principal. Impact describes how to build meaningful principal/assistant...
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development
The Bloomington School
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement....
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy, Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology...