Peter McCaffery - The Higher Education Managers Handbook: Effective Leadership and Management in Universities and Colleges

The Higher Education Managers Handbook

Drawing on professional experience from university innovators and a wealth of international case studies, The Higher Education Managers Handbook offers practical advice and guidance on all aspects of university management. An engaging, comprehensive and highly accessible practitioners guide, the book tackles all the key areas central to the job of managing in higher education, from understanding the culture of your university and the role it plays, to providing effective leadership and managing change. Now in a thoroughly updated third edition, the book is written from the unique perspective of the higher education manager, offering advice that can be implemented immediately by leaders at all levels.

The book is organised into four prerequisites that any prospective higher education manager must master if they are to be an effective university leader:

Knowing your environment

Knowing your university

Knowing your department

Knowing yourself

Each of the chapters within these sections provides commentary and analysis of the particular role aspect under review, and offers advice and guidance on good practice, including case study examples and self-assessment tools. New topics include:

The new higher education landscape

The first 100 days

Avoiding cognitive bias and developing a flexible mindset

Strategic planning and Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

Reviewing course portfolios and subject areas

Improving student outcomes and staff experience

Assessing and mitigating risk

Project management and managing up

Widening participation and social mobility

Vice chancellors, university presidents, provosts and deans, heads of academic departments and university services, subject leaders, course directors and others in management positions within the field of higher education will find this book to be an irreplaceable resource that they will use time and time again.

Professor Peter McCaffery is a former university vice chancellor and a Winston Churchill Fellow. He has over 35 years of teaching, research and management experience and has worked in a range of institutions from further education colleges to an Ivy League University.

The Higher Education Managers
Handbook

Effective Leadership and Management in
Universities and Colleges

Third edition

Peter McCaffery

Third edition published 2019
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First edition published by RoutledgeFalmer 2004
Second edition published by Routledge 2010

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: McCaffery, Peter, 1952- author.

Title: The higher education managers handbook : effective leadership and management in universities and colleges / Peter Mcaffery.

Description: Third edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | First edition published by RoutledgeFalmer 2004T.p. verso. | Previous edition: 2010.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018010621| ISBN 9780815370277 (hardback) | ISBN 9780815370284 (paperback) | ISBN 9781351249744 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Universities and collegesGreat BritainAdministrationHandbooks, manuals, etc. | Educational leadershipGreat BritainHandbooks, manuals, etc. | Education, HigherGreat BritainAdministrationHandbooks, manuals, etc.

Classification: LCC LB2341.8.G7 M39 2019 | DDC 378.1/01dc23