Reviews for Community College Leadership: A Multidimensional Model for Leading Change

The average rating for Community College Leadership: A Multidimensional Model for Leading Change based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-06-27 00:00:00 Johnnie Cusack The only people who could possibly like this book are academics or future academics (and yes, I am one). I'm participating in the Preparing Future Faculty program at my department and we read this book to provoke discussion during our meetings. Although it certainly stimulated discussion (the book is about a recent Ph.D. and her first academic job), I wouldn't recommend it outside of that. If you are part of a PFF program (or any other group of future academics) and are looking for a fun and easy book to generate discussion about academic life, this is a great one. If you're looking for something to read for fun, look elsewhere. I credit the author for bringing up dozens of issues in academia in a story-format, which again makes this book great for stimulating discussion. However, I could've done without the "romance" and "mystery" he tried to weave into the book to make it more interesting. That was a bit ridiculous... So, in conclusion, I recommend this book as a discussion-starter for a group of future academics, but that's it. And even then, you can probably have a good discussion without this book (although it is at least an easy and quick read). Skip the romance and mystery bits. They will probably make you cringe.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-30 00:00:00 Joseph Charlot This book is a not very well put together or interesting mystery about a first year university assistant professor. I was really uninterested in the mystery which was quite stupid. Of greater interest were the descriptions of the first-year teaching experience which, when they didn't become ludicrous, were amusing and rather scary at the same time. On this basis, I would have given the book two stars at the maximum. It quickly becomes evident, however, that the true intention of the book is that it be used to provoke discussion in a reading group of faculty -- there are even discussion questions at the end of this book. The topics are controversial enough that I am sure it would do a wonderful job for this purpose. So, if you are leading such a group, I would recommend it. If not, there are far better books dealing with the lives of academics.