Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration: A Guide for Campus Leaders

This book provides needed guidance and advice for how colleges and universities can reorganize to foster more collaborative work. In a time of declining resources, financial challenges, changing demographics, and staff overturn, institutions are looking for ways to maximize their resources and still be effective. This book is based on a study of campuses that have been successful in recreating their environments to support collaborative work.

Adrianna Kezar, associate professor for higher education atthe University of Southern California, holds a Ph.D. (1996) and anM.A. (1992) in higher education administration from the Universityof Michigan and a B.A. (1989) from the University of California,Los Angeles. She joined the faculty at USC in 2003. Kezar wasformerly an assistant professor at the University of Maryland andGeorge Washington University. Kezar was editor of the ASHE -ERIC Higher Education Report Series from 1996 to 2004.Previously, she was an administrative associate for the vicepresident for student affairs (1992 – 1995) and coordinatorfor the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (1995 –1996), both at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses onchange, leadership, public purposes of higher education,organizational theory, governance, access, and diversity and equityissues in higher education. She has published over seventy - fi vearticles and books and is featured in the major journals for highereducation including The Journal of Higher Education, Research inHigher Education, The Review of Higher Education, andJournal of College Student Development . Her most recentbook is Rethinking the “ L ” Word in HigherEducation:

The Revolution of Research on Leadership (2006). In 2005,she had two new books published by Jossey - Bass, HigherEducation for the Public Good and Creating OrganizationalLearning in Higher Education, and a national reportpublished by the American Council on Education, LeadershipStrategies for Advancing Campus Diversity . She is currentlyworking on a grant from the Lumina Foundation related to a federalfi nancial program called Individual Development Accounts. Kezarhas participated actively in national service, including being onthe editorial boards for The Journal of HigherEducation,

The Journal of College Student Development, Change , andThe ERIC Review and serving as a reviewer for elevenjournals in and outside higher education. She has served on theAERA - Division J Council and Association for the Study of HigherEducation Publication Committee and Dissertation of the YearCommittee. Kezar also serves or has served as a board member forthe American Association for Higher Education; Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities ’ Peer Review andKnowledge Network; National TRIO Clearinghouse; and the AmericanCouncil on Education ’ s CIRP Research Cooperative. Shevolunteers for several national organizations, including theHERS/Bryn Mawr Summer Institute, Pathways to College Network, andthe Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. She hasreceived national awards for her editorial leadership of the ASHE -ERIC report series from ASHE, for developing a leadershipdevelopment program for women in higher education from ACE, and forher commitment to service learning from the National Society forExperiential Learning.

Jaime Lester, assistant professor of higher education,George Mason University, holds a Ph.D. and M.Ed. in highereducation from the Rossier School of Education at the University ofSouthern California. Lester also holds a dual B.A. from theUniversity of Michigan in English and women ’ s studies.Prior to George Mason University, she was an assistant professorand co - director of the Research Center for Community CollegeInquiry in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at OldDominion University from 2006 to 2008. Lester maintains an activeresearch agenda that examines gender equity in higher education,retention and transfer of community college students, socializationof women and minority faculty, and leadership. She has publishedarticles in the Community College Journal of Research andPractice, Community College Review, Journal of Higher Education,Liberal Education, National Women ’ s Studies AssociationJournal , and NEA: Thought & Action . She also hastwo forthcoming books on gendered perspectives in communitycolleges and family - friendly policies in higher education.Currently, she is completing a project on nonpositional leadershipand change in higher education.

In addition to her research, Lester has participated as areviewer for several academic journals inside and outside highereducation, including the National Women ’ s StudiesAssociation Journal, Community College Review, Journal About Womenin Higher Education, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science andEngineering, and New Directions for Community Colleges.She also serves as a board member for the national association theCouncil for the Study of Community Colleges, who granted her anaward for her dissertation work.