Explores approaches to effective leadership and strategic management in the twenty-first century university that recognize and respond to the perceptions and attitudes of university leaders toward institutional structures. It examines the differences between treating universities as businesses and managing universities in a businesslike manner, what kinds of leadership will best address challenges, and how to gain consensus among constituents that change is needed. From historical background to modern e-learning techniques, we look at governance to find systems that are effectively structured to balance the needs of students, educators, administrators, trustees, and legislators.

Author Biography

DENNIS J. GAYLE is senior advistor to the vice chancellor and professor of strategic international business at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. BHOENDRADATT TEWARIE is prinicipal and vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. A. QUINTON WHITE, JR. is professor of marine science at Jacksonville University in Florida, where he established the major in marine science, served as department chair and chair of the Division of Sciences and Mathematics, and served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.