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"Elaine Maimon combines her long experience as a leader in the writing across the curriculum movement, where writing becomes a tool for learning in higher education, with her long experience as president of one of those increasingly rare public universities where equity is treated as a means of achieving quality. This book is a practical yet radical response to those in higher education who would separate thinking and writing (and make writing remedial), as well as those who would separate quality and equity (and make equity an afterthought). It is a must-read for college teachers and administrators who seek a positive, principled response to the problems besetting US higher education." - David Russell, Professor of English, Iowa State University ""Raising the bar for student success is critical for America as it confronts the challenges of the twenty-first century. This is the right time to address transformational leadership in higher education and the indispensable role of public four-year comprehensive state colleges and universities. Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation combines the author's scholarly knowledge and practical experience to provide guidance, encouragement, and inspiration for transformational leadership. This book is an indispensable resource for those committed to improving their institutions in the interest of student success."" - Muriel A. Howard, Ph.D., President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) "The conception of a purposeful and public-spirited liberal education set forth in these pages applies directly to students' career interests, and to all majors, including majors whose titles `sound like a job.' Whether students aspire to be accountants, or health workers, or the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, the author wants all of them to emerge with well-anchored big picture knowledge and the judgment to connect knowledge with ethical action. But to help students actually achieve this kind of education, educators themselves will need to break free of old assumptions about how students should proceed through college. Leading Academic Change shows us how." - from the foreword by Carol Geary Schneider

Written by a sitting college president who has presided over transformative change at a state university, this book takes on the big questions and issues of change and change management, what needs to be done and how to do it. Writing in a highly accessible style, the author recommends changes for higher education such as the reallocation of resources to support full-time faculty members in foundation-level courses, navigable pathways from community college to the university, infusion rather than proliferation of courses, and the role of state universities in countering the disappearance of the middle class. The book describes how these changes can be made, as well as why we must make them if our society is to thrive in the twenty-first century.