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Rethinking Student Affairs Practice
Patrick G. Love
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Description for Rethinking Student Affairs Practice
Hardcover. To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which they work. This work develops a model for change based on four concepts. The four concepts are valuing dualisms, transcending paradigms, recognizing connectedness, and embracing paradox. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 426.
To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which they work, and must be able to work within them. These structures are often characterized by a rigid division of labor and an expectation that good managers can predict the outcomes of their efforts and can and should exercise control over the inputs. However, to be effective leaders, they must be able to perceive new possibilities beyond those structures and expectations. How can they do both?
To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which they work, and must be able to work within them. These structures are often characterized by a rigid division of labor and an expectation that good managers can predict the outcomes of their efforts and can and should exercise control over the inputs. However, to be effective leaders, they must be able to perceive new possibilities beyond those structures and expectations. How can they do both?
Rethinking Student Affairs Practice offers an answer to that question. Love and Estanek ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787962142
SKU
V9780787962142
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About Patrick G. Love
THE AUTHORS PATRICK G. LOVE serves as associate professor of higher education in the Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology at New York University. SANDRA M. ESTANEK is assistant professor of graduate education and leadership and director of the master's program in College Student Personnel Administration at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
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