Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies

Edited by Jayne Cubbage - Contributions by L. Simone Byrd; Jayne Cubbage; Dr. Nicole Files-Thompson; Karima A. Haynes; John W. Howard III; Pavitra Kavya; Sheryl Kennedy Haydel; Michael W. Kramer; Stephanie Norander; Laura C. Prividera; Shearon Roberts; Jeanetta D. Sims; Sarah Stone Watt and Mary E. Wildner-Bassett

Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies explores the experiences, strategies, and triumphs of women who have attained leadership roles within the academy as well as the shortfalls, disappointments, and battle scars many women leaders have experienced in their quest to lead. Clear direction, focused strategies, and enhanced communication are necessary to increase the ever-growing number of women in leadership positions in the academy. Contributions to this book discuss the ways in which these concepts have been employed to transcend the “academic ceiling” by creating mentoring networks for women, training programs, and other “ladders of ascension,” encouraging future leaders to be more assertive, self-assured, and strategic within the academic terrain. Scholars of communication, education, and women’s studies will find this volume particularly useful.

Lexington Books

Pages: 258 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-9531-5 • Hardback • January 2020 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-1-4985-9532-2 • eBook • January 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: Communicating Gender

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

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Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies explores the experiences, strategies, and triumphs of women who have attained leadership roles within the academy as well as the shortfalls, disappointments, and battle scars many women leaders have experienced in their quest to lead. Clear direction, focused strategies, and enhanced communication are necessary to increase the ever-growing number of women in leadership positions in the academy. Contributions to this book discuss the ways in which these concepts have been employed to transcend the “academic ceiling” by creating mentoring networks for women, training programs, and other “ladders of ascension,” encouraging future leaders to be more assertive, self-assured, and strategic within the academic terrain. Scholars of communication, education, and women’s studies will find this volume particularly useful.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 258 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-9531-5 • Hardback • January 2020 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-1-4985-9532-2 • eBook • January 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: Communicating Gender

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

Author

Jayne Cubbage is assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Bowie State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: At Long Lost: Women Presidents Communicating Leadership at HBCUs

Jayne Cubbage

Chapter 2: “You Ain’t Neva Lied!”: Isolation and the Meaning of Friendship for Two Sistahs in Leadership at HBCUs

Nicole Files-Thompson and L. Simone Byrd

Chapter 3: Black Diamonds: African-American Women Executives Embody Transformational Leadership at Community Colleges

Karima A. Haynes

Chapter 4: The Impact of Maternity Leave Advice within the Academy on Work-Life Balance of Women Faculty and Administrators

Pavitra Kavya and Michael W. Kramer

Chapter 5: When External Networks Bolster Internal Prestige: Establishing and Sustaining Support Systems for Black Women in the Academy

Sheryl Kennedy Haydel and Shearon Roberts

Chapter 6: Cultivating Feminist Reflexivity and Resilience in Leadership Communication

Stephanie Norander

Chapter 7: Communicating Lead(her)ship in the Academy: Navigating a Sea of Organizational Patriarchy

Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard III

Chapter 8: No Gentlemen’s Agreement Here: Higher Education Reflections on Being Womanist and the Dialectics Present in an African-American Woman’s Administrative Journey

Jeanetta D. Sims

Chapter 9: Enacting a Feminist Ecological Ethos of Leadership at a Christian Liberal Arts College

Sarah Stone Watt

Chapter 10: Contemplating Leadership: Struggles, Transformations, Transcendence

Mary Wildner-Bassett

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