Bridging the Divide between Faculty and Administration

A Guide to Understanding Conflict in the Academy

By: James L. Bess, Jay R. Dee

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Paperback | 10 June 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Conflicts between faculty and administration have become particularly virulent and disruptive in recent years, as institutions have struggled to adapt to intensifying pressures for efficiency, accountability, and responsiveness. Unexamined and ungoverned conflict can impede effective conduct of academic affairs, stall change initiatives, and damage comity and trust. This important book offers a critical assessment of current campus decision-making and governance practices in order to address the underlying sources of conflict between faculty and administrators. Rather than simply arguing for "more" communication, Bridging the Divide between Faculty and Administration provides a theory-driven and research-based approach for authentic discourse between faculty and administration. Analyzing common sources of conflict and challenges that impede attempts to address conflict, this book promotes creative ways to work across differences and to interact more effectively. Bridging the Divide between Faculty and Administration provides a wealth of strategies for improving communication in colleges and universities, ultimately enhancing organizational effectiveness and institutional performance.

Special Features:

Analyzes common "blind spots" and explores ways for faculty and leaders to work across differences in their belief systems

Examples throughout connect theory to practice across a variety of college and university contexts

Practical tips and advice provide guidance for on-the-ground faulty and leaders to use in their own practice

Industry Reviews

"Bess and Dee have written a thoughtful and thought provoking book to help us think and rethink how we come together as a community. They encourage us to readjust our perspectives, examine our language, and think about what we say, how we say it, and to whom we communicate. This book takes the perspective that supporting administrators and faculty, through understanding and meaning making, can move them toward collaboration and happier endings."

-From the foreword by Mari Koerner, Dean of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

"In Bridging the Divide between Faculty and Administration, Bess and Dee bring their encyclopedic knowledge of organization theory to an examination of academic governance and decision-making in contemporary higher education. Bess and Dee's contribution-and it is not a small one-is to reframe the problem of governance in ways that deter us from taking many of the knee-jerk, but largely ineffective, paths, and focus our attention on what the real, underlying sources of our differences are. In doing so, they challenge both faculty and administrators to move beyond our comfort zones. Their book should be an indispensable resource to both administrative and faculty leaders seeking to move their institutions forward in difficult times as well as a resource for training prospective leaders."

-Martin J. Finkelstein, Professor of Higher Education, Seton Hall University

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