Title: Devoted Academics
Subtitle: Ethical Responsibilities and Service in University Leadership
Subject Classification:  Education, Morals  
BIC Classification: JN, JNM, HPQ
BISAC Classification: EDU001030, EDU014000, PHI005000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 15 Jun 2022
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-871891-29-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-871891-30-0
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-215-2

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Description

Devoted Academics is guided by the author’s 45-year career in tenured faculty posts (chemical sciences), and significant management and administrative positions at six U.S. research universities. The book is both a personal journey, and a discussion of the challenges, successes, and failures inherent in academic life. In all cases, the author stresses how important an ethical sense of responsibility, accountability, and the development of character are to successful service in academic roles. Devoted Academics is an inspiration to young scholars, contemplating a life in the academy; mid-career academics who can learn from communication and other strategies as they consider future career options; and older academics, who will enjoy comparing their experiences with those of the author and his colleagues.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr. Robert V. Smith is Senior Consultant, Registry for College and University Presidents, and former Provost or Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Dean at four U.S. Research Universities. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.

Reviews

"Dr. Robert Smith’s academic memoir, Devoted Academics, provides a charming narrative of his academic journey… There is much wisdom in this memoir that should be of great use to current and future academic administrators: Where You Stand is Where You Sit (p. 310); New academic leaders need to hit the ground running and listening, and when parachuting into a new academic position, leaders need the support of associates (p. 312). As well, given his long friendship with coach and athletic director Frank Broyles, Smith nicely uses sports jargon to coin the term, “academic triple threat” (p. 304), for colleagues who are truly exemplary in all three areas commonly organized for annual reviews, promotion & tenure: teaching, scholarship, service. We all seek such “academic triple threats”!"
- Dr Richard Sax, Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences, Long Island University

"Devoted Academics is intertwined with many personal accounts and the reader is steered through the triumphs and struggles of academic life, leadership and a personal life story that reveal the perseverance, empathy and humanity of a life well-lived. Even in “retirement” and after personal changes and significant health challenges, the author continues to focus his attention to supporting the next generation of academic leaders and to the strengthening of higher education through his work with The Registry, an undertaking for which we are all very grateful."
- Professor, Anny Morrobel-Sosa, President and Founder, The Micaela Group