Higher Education Leadership in a Changing World: The Coronavirus Pandemic and COVID-19

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Author(s): Antonio Arturo Fernandez (Barry University, USA)and Graham Paul Shaw (Barry University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 15
Source title: Leadership and Management Strategies for Creating Agile Universities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Thomas M. Connolly (DS Partnership, UK)and Stephen Farrier (Independent Researcher, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8213-8.ch001

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Educational Administration and Leadership / Educational Leadership & Administration / Knowledge Management and Library Science

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The coronavirus pandemic remains one of the most significant and unpredictable global public health crises. The disease (COVID-19) caused by the virus represents a complex and ambiguous adaptive crisis that prompted the rise of the allostatic higher education leader. These leaders were able to learn from the pandemic and inspire faculty to exhibit similar leadership behaviors such as connecting with people, distributing leadership, and communicating clearly. COVID-19 provided higher education leadership with the opportunity for mission-driven changes related to course delivery models, pedagogy, student choices, affordability, access, and opportunity, and the post-COVID-19 institute of higher education will be a better place to work, and more student-centric. Those academic leaders with the adaptive capacity to see the crisis as an opportunity will envision a continued role for new and disruptive technologies. The pandemic has also provided faculty leaders with an opportunity for self-reflection that in many cases was long overdue.

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