The State Higher Education Executive Officer and the Public Good: Developing New Leadership for Improved Policy, Practice, and Research - Softcover

“It is only through a better understanding of SHEEOs and the myriad of challenges they face that we can truly begin to comprehend and appreciate the complexity of our higher education systems....This book is a large step forward to increasing this comprehension. (It) includes practical advice, empirical investigations, and theoretical considerations, all about and directed to the SHEEO. I welcome this volume and consider it far past due.”
—From the Foreword by
Robert E. Anderson
, president, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association

“This book is an invaluable resource for state higher education policymakers, scholars, and students. It fills a gap in available literature on the history of state higher education executive officers and guidance for the role of SHEEO agencies in the future. The authors include nationally recognized authorities as well as practitioners with long, successful experience in the difficult challenge of state higher education policy leadership and coordination.”
—
Aims C. McGuinness Jr
., senior fellow, NCHEMS, Boulder, Colorado

“This book clearly captures the complex role of the SHEEO: vision setter, policy developer, student advocate, collaborator, implementer, and more. It should be required reading for all who have the honor to sit in the SHEEO chair and those who aspire to do so effectively.”
—
Kim Hunter Reed
, Commissioner of Higher Education in Louisiana

David A. Tandberg is vice president for policy research and strategic initiatives at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Brian A. Sponsler is vice president of policy at Education Commission of the States. Randall W. Hanna is the dean and chief executive officer of Florida State University Panama City. Jason P. Guilbeau is a doctoral candidate in the higher education program at Florida State University.