Take Me to Your Leader

Higher education leadership is facing different versions of some of the same challenges that the faculty is facing: managing with restricted resources from state and federal funding as well as from tuition dollars; demonstrating to a skeptical public that what we are doing in higher education is worth investing in; and balancing the different sides of an institution's structure, personality, and business, from academics to athletics to student affairs. Saltmarsh, who directs the New England Regional Center for Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Hartley, chair of the higher education department in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania-both national figures in the world of civic engagement-pronounce the current state of that field to be one of "fragmentation and drift."