Conversations on Ethical Leadership

Lessons Learned from University Governance

Edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Categories: Education, Business, Economics & Industry, Business, Philosophy
Series: UTP Insights
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9781487539658, 360 pages, September 2023
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781487539665, 360 pages, September 2023
Paperback : 9781487552497, 360 pages, August 2023

Table of contents

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgements

Introductory Remarks: Opening the Conversation 
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

Part One: The Sustainable University

1. Universities and the Ethics of Environment
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Simone Hausknecht
Commentary: Todd Latham

2. University Responses to and Obligations for Business Air Travel Emissions
John Robinson, Dione Dias, Ayako Ariga, Rashad Brugmann, Nicolas Côté, Meghan Henderson, Andrea Muehlebach, Rutu Patel, Jennifer Puskar, and Peter Vuong
Commentary: Kevin Nilsen

Part Two: Pursuing Excellence and Integrity

3. Resourcing the Pursuit of Academic Excellence
Gordon M. Myers
Commentary: Esther Bergman

4. Aspiring to the Transformational: Building upon a Holistic Approach to Academic Integrity in Higher Education
Emma J. Thacker
Commentary: Sue McGeachie

5. Openness, Responsiveness, and Discomfort: A Relational Approach to Student-Centred Leadership
Sarah J. King
Commentary: Lois Lindsay

Part Three: Community Engagement and Diversity

6. Leadership, Vision, and the Role of Chancellor in University Governance
Anne Giardini
Commentary: B. Alexander Leman

7. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Closing Gaps and Opening Minds
Tricia Glazebrook
Commentary: Margie Zeidler

8. Critical Issues in Architecture / Engaged, Ethical Architectural Education
Thomas Barrie
Commentary: Sabrina Leman

9. Indigenous Leadership and Governance, and Reconciliation
D. McGregor, L. McGregor, C. Peltier, and S. Manitowabi
Commentary: Anne Koven and Stephanie Seymour

Part Four: The Ethics of Expression

10. Guiding Creativity and Controversy: A Faith-Based University Experience
J. Harry Fernhout
Commentary: Nada Conic

11. University Governance and Campus Speech
L.W. Sumner
Commentary: Christopher Ollson

Part Five: The Art of Leadership

12. Spaces of Virtue in Universities
Bruce B. Janz
Commentary: Indira Samaresekera

13. The Art of Having the Right Thing Happen
Robert Mugerauer
Commentary: David Miller

Closing Remarks
14. Building a University’s Sense of Place
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

List of Chapter Contributors
List of Commentary Contributors
Index

Description

Highlighting ethical leadership strategies, Conversations on Ethical Leadership explores what makes for strong, well-informed, morally sound decision-making at all levels of an organization. In addressing a range of challenges faced by universities and applying those lessons to the broader community of the public and private sectors, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and her contributors tackle a host of issues related to advancing ethics, diversity, inclusiveness, and the art of moral leadership.

Each chapter, written by an author with roots in the academy, includes a subsequent commentary by a community leader who highlights the broader takeaways that emerge for society from the university experience. In this way, the book becomes a conversation between the academic and non-academic worlds about issues that affect any prominent organization. It offers a unique range of novel and timely topics, from responsibility-centred budgeting to post-pandemic planning, responsiveness to climate change, Indigenous leadership, free speech, academic integrity, and much more. In doing so, Conversations on Ethical Leadership ultimately reveals how we can build and preserve an ethically responsible sense of purpose at our post-secondary learning institutions and beyond.