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Why women excel as transformational campus leaders.

Women in Higher Education

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Leaders fuel higher education's response to change. Some leadership styles fuel positive transformation while others work best for maintenance. In these days of accelerating change, schools thrive best with transformational leaders.

Women's skills fit this need especially well, according to Dr. Linda Wysong Becker, VP for student services at Union College in Lincoln NE. "Women have a distinct advantage as leaders," she said at the University of Nebraska's Women in Leadership Conference in Lincoln last October.

Her doctoral research in 1999-2000 correlated leadership styles with institutional effectiveness. Though she didn't set out to study women's ...

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