Introduction
The university’s reputation and achievement heavily rely on the educational and faculty leadership patterns. Quality leadership simplifies the process of integrating and implementing new university-based educational standards and practices. The university objectives, including the provision of quality training and educational services, conducting extensive research projects and discoveries as well as expansion of educational programs all rely on the prevailing educational leadership and faculty administration patterns (Kornblum, 2007). Even though the many universities globally have become more complex institutions compared to several corporations, the management and governance of most of the universities could be said to be amateurish (Duderstadt & Womack, 2004). As Duderstadt & Womack (2004) explains, even with sufficient training and expertise the university administrations have encountered numerous challenges. Many of the institutions have lacked firm financial planning and are often plagued by serious cases of incompatibility in executing responsibility and educational tasks (p.123). The prevalent mismatch between authority and responsibility has been attributed to a lack of strong leadership styles and administrators.
There is a need for future research regarding Preparations for the faculty for University Educational Leadership
The current educational tendency including the funding and costs of higher learning signifies that there may be a crisis in the years to come. If colleges and higher learning institutions maintain the current trend including tuition increments with an aim of recompensing for the created imbalance between the public demands for higher education and the steady increase in the cost of learning, many individuals will find the university or college education priced beyond their capability. This implies that there is an urgent need for cost containment and renewed public educational investment measures that will provide long-term solutions to the educational institutions and society at large. Recent experiences have indicated that the rising cost of education for both middle-income and upper-income students in the universities does not cause a reduction in the number of enrollments. Likewise, it has been witnessed that the use of federal dollars to fund the lending costs for the students in this income category has very little impact in creating new enrollment opportunities. Some have claimed that the principle of low university tuition is a highly deteriorative policy that appears to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor. All these have been attributed to the nature of leadership used to control the affairs of educational institutions (Duderstadt & Womack, 2004). Because the subject of preparation and implementation of educational leadership has not been fully explored, this area needs quality research and investigation. According to Young (2009), several factors need to be examined and addressed including methods of preparing individuals to assume certain leadership roles in the university faculties and the additional features that should be incorporated into the existing educational leadership systems that will enhance the execution of the various roles and result to overall effectiveness of the entire system (Young, 2009).
Conclusion
Even though there is a wide-ranging amount of literature regarding the preparation of the university leadership and faculty administrative patterns, the research has indicated that there is a significant portion that has not been fully explored and therefore more research may help in adjusting the present university norms and administrative systems (Nath, Guadarrama & Ramsy, 2011).
References
- Duderstadt, J.J., & Womack, F.W. (2004). The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads the Future of the Public University in America. Baltimore, Maryland: JHU Press. Pp.122-167.
- Kornblum, W. (2007).Sociology in a Changing World. (8th Ed). Boston: Cengage Learning.pp.200-350.
- Nath, J.L., Guadarrama, I.N. & Ramsy, J. (2011). Investigating University-School Partnerships Research in Professional Development Schools. Kühlungsborn: IAP.pp.62-138.
- Young, M.D. (2009). Handbook of research on the education of school leaders. Taylor & Francis. Pp.262-300.