Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List is one of the best lists we subscribe to, and not just because they occasionally republish some good SCUP faculty-related materials. The list describes itself as "desk-top faculty development, one hundred times a year." And it is.

A recent post to that website is Connie D. Foster's review from Planning for Higher Education of the book, Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration: A Guide for Campus Leaders by Adrianna J. Kezar and Jaime Lester. 

Foster's conclusion:

To create and sustain change means rethinking overall organizational structures, processes, and design as well as understanding the critical roles of mission, core values, and leadership skills. In The Courage to Lead: Transform Self, Transform Society, Brian Stanfield describes the journey of the organization. He states, "More and more, organizations are beginning to realize that they have to change their whole network in many dimensions-a process that has been called whole-system transformation. A first step in this wholistic change is transforming the organization's current worldview" (Stanfield 2000, p. 151). Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration is a book that can help a higher education institution rethink its worldview, a valuable exercise in these challenging times.