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Increasing numbers of women have gained access to college and the college teaching profession worldwide. However, women continue to be underrepresented in academic, research, and leadership positions. Women who have aspirations for top leadership positions still encounter numerous internal and external challenges. Existent literature on women administrators' career advancement in higher education also has revealed that in order to reach top positions, it is necessary that women leaders utilize available resources and strategies. Studies on women administrators' career advancement have focused primarily on female leaders or professors in Western universities. This study contributes to this scholarly knowledge by adding women leaders' voices from the East. I used a qualitative descriptive approach to investigate how eight women senior academic administrators in two public research universities in Indonesia navigated their way to leadership positions. I collected the data using two to three hours of interviews with each woman during the summer of 2009. From the interviews, six themes emerged: (a) family is key in these women's efforts to manage tensions between professional and domestic roles, (b) support from the closest individuals was important in balancing the participants' multiple roles, (c) my participants' personal attributes helped them in accomplishing their responsibilities, (d) heavy workloads contributed to women's lack of aspiration to pursue top leadership positions, (e) institutional policies regarding promotion systematically favor men, and (f) women had to work harder to become leaders. Findings of this study revealed that culture and religious beliefs distinctive to Indonesian contexts can facilitate or hinder women senior academic administrators' career advancement. Reflections of these women suggested that the strong support system in the Javanese culture helps women administrators in balancing their domestic and public roles. Socioeconomic status has affected women's career advancement as well. Women who have the means, resources, and assistance to accomplish their domestic roles are more likely to focus on their careers. Findings also indicated that women's religious beliefs affected how these women viewed their roles in public and at home and how they balanced their complex roles. All my participants agreed that women's God-given task is to be a mother and a wife. This belief served as a strong foundation as these women navigated their careers. They affirmed that women should not forego and neglect these roles when pursuing their careers. Despite their concern with women's low representation in top leadership positions, they agreed that policies designed solely to increase women's participation are not enough. They concurred that women had to work harder and showed strong determination to become leaders.

Academic administrators at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are faced with multiple challenges regarding retention of students, funding, and maintaining status as an HBCU, yet little is understood about how and why leaders choose a particular career pathway. This lack of understanding creates opportunities for failure related to turnover in leadership, funding discrepancies, and lower rates of retention and persistence for students. Using Maslow's needs theory as the foundation, the purpose of this descriptive study was to better understand the career pathways of established executive level leaders atin HBCUs in order to determine attributes of success among leaders with the rank of provost and higher. Data were collected using open-ended surveys from 30 HBCU executives at the rank of provost or higher. These data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, inductive coding, and thematic analysis. Findings indicated that academic administrators tend to move between private and public institutions frequently, and over 20 percent began an academic career as a faculty member at an institution of higher education. The other key finding is that executives tend to plot a path to higher level, executive positions and this transition occurs over a period of several years and t and that those who maintain a focus on achieving executive status also participate in a variety of seminars and workshops to build peripheral skill in communication, financial management, and collaboration. The social change implications stemming from this study include recommendations to HBCUs to engage in leadership training opportunities for faculty and academic managers to encourage internal promotion of executive positions as a mechanism to preserve the unique organizational attributes of HBCUs.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:25:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Lays Gathas Carvalho.pdf: 1404380 bytes, checksum: 09fd8b5ca603f1b1fd6d63b59c626fd7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / One of the reasons for the rising interest in education for sustainability among business schools is the belief that it has a central role in the education of a new generation capable of thinking and acting by principles that go beyond the economic reasons. In the international academic sphere studies have grown in number as well as in diversity of approaches. Despite the global scenario, the discussion of sustainability in higher education in Brazil is still under disseminated in practices that integrate education, environment and society as well as in the literature supporting the academic debate. Thus, the present study objective was to discuss the meanings of education for sustainability in higher education and the consequences for the education of the future generation of business administrators. The intention was to reflect upon the experiences of the directors and deans of undergraduate courses on the integration of sustainability in business education in the context of Brazilian universities, promoting a debate on its specificities, difficulties and advances in contrast to the international context. To achieve its objective, a basic qualitative study was conducted with 17 business schools in the north, south and southeast of Brazil. The data collection strategy included interviews and document analysis. It starts with a discussion of sustainability, based on the works of Sachs (1995), Wright (2004) and Shriberg (2002). After that a discussion of the international literature on education for sustainability reviews European, North and Latin American, South-Pacific, African and Brazilian researchers. At the end the works of Down (2006), Beringer (2007), Beringer, Wright e Malone (2008), Lozano-García, Huisingh and Fabián (2009) are explored to present the experiences of integrating sustainability into higher education. The results indicate that at one side the insertion of sustainability in the business schools curricula has shown advances in the last years. Experiences are being conducted in most of the studied schools in terms of curricula, research, community extension, student opportunities, academic staff development, inclusion of sustainable goals in the vision and mission declarations and even in the university governance and administration. At the other side, the experiences show there is still a distance from meaningful changes that may affect the presuppositions of the business education. It is important to mention this scenario is not a prerogative of the Brazilian context, as studies of Calder e Clugston (2003), Tauchen and Brandli (2006) and others indicate this is an international issue. Nonetheless, this does not minimize the need for a significant effort from the Brazilian schools for the advancement of alternative models towards an education for sustainability. / Entre as razões do crescente interesse pelo tema educação para sustentabilidade nas escolas de administração, está a crença de que esta tem um papel central na formação de uma nova geração capaz de pensar e agir por princípios que vão muito além das preocupações de cunho econômico. Na esfera acadêmica internacional, estudos se multiplicaram nas últimas duas décadas, tanto em número quanto em diversidade de abordagens. Apesar de um cenário global promissor, no Brasil, por sua vez, a discussão da educação para sustentabilidade no ensino superior ainda é pouco disseminada, tanto nas práticas que relacionam educação, meio ambiente e sociedade nos cursos de educação superior, quanto na literatura que sustenta as discussões acadêmicas a respeito do tema. Assim, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo discutir os significados de educação para sustentabilidade nas instituições de ensino superior e suas implicações para a formação da nova geração de administradores. A intenção foi refletir sobre as experiências dos responsáveis pela direção e coordenação dos cursos de graduação na inserção da sustentabilidade no currículo de administração de empresas, no contexto brasileiro, promovendo um debate sobre suas especificidades, dificuldades e avanços em relação às tendências mundiais nesse campo. Para tanto, um estudo qualitativo foi conduzido com diretores e coordenadores de 17 cursos de graduação nas regiões nordeste, sul e sudeste do país. As principais estratégias de coleta de dados foram entrevistas em profundidade e análise documental. Parte o estudo de uma discussão sobre sustentabilidade, suportada por autores como Sachs (1995), Wright (2004) e Shriberg (2002). Em seguida procede-se a uma análise da literatura internacional sobre educação para sustentabilidade, revisando autores europeus, norte-americanos, africanos, latino-americanos e outros. Por fim, recorre-se a Down (2006), Beringer (2007), Lozano-García, Huisingh e Fabián (2009), para discutir experiências de inserção da educação para sustentabilidade. Os resultados indicam que, por um lado, a inserção da sustentabilidade no currículo das escolas de administração e negócios brasileiras têm demonstrado avanços nos últimos anos. Experiências já estão sendo conduzidas como as que se observou na maior parte das escolas participantes do estudo em termos de currículo, pesquisa e extensão, participação de alunos, capacitação de docentes, inclusão de metas sustentáveis nas declarações de visão e missão e, até mesmo na gestão universitária. Por outro lado, as experiências também indicam a distância que se tem de qualquer iniciativa nos cursos de administração que sinalize um rompimento ou uma revisão dos pressupostos que há anos vêm fundamentando a formação do administrador. É importante que se diga, contudo, que este cenário também não é prerrogativa do contexto brasileiro, as pesquisas de Calder e Clugston, (2003), de Tauchen e Brandli (2006), entre outros, indicam uma preocupação mundial nesse sentido, que não minimiza, em nada, a necessidade de um empenho significativo de nossas escolas de administração em fazer avançar modelos alternativos que respondam ao que se espera de uma formação para a sustentabilidade.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:25:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Lays Gathas Carvalho.pdf: 1395555 bytes, checksum: 8ae7ff71fcbeef3e7ae99724b400d32a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-25 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / One of the reasons for the rising interest in education for sustainability among business schools is the belief that it has a central role in the education of a new generation capable of thinking and acting by principles that go beyond the economic reasons. In the international academic sphere studies have grown in number as well as in diversity of approaches. Despite the global scenario, the discussion of sustainability in higher education in Brazil is still under disseminated in practices that integrate education, environment and society as well as in the literature supporting the academic debate. Thus, the present study objective was to discuss the meanings of education for sustainability in higher education and the consequences for the education of the future generation of business administrators. The intention was to reflect upon the experiences of the directors and deans of undergraduate courses on the integration of sustainability in business education in the context of Brazilian universities, promoting a debate on its specificities, difficulties and advances in contrast to the international context. To achieve its objective, a basic qualitative study was conducted with 17 business schools in the north, south and southeast of Brazil. The data collection strategy included interviews and document analysis. It starts with a discussion of sustainability, based on the works of Sachs (1995), Wright (2004) and Shriberg (2002). After that a discussion of the international literature on education for sustainability reviews European, North and Latin American, South-Pacific, African and Brazilian researchers. At the end the works of Down (2006), Beringer (2007), Beringer, Wright e Malone (2008), Lozano-García, Huisingh and Fabián (2009) are explored to present the experiences of integrating sustainability into higher education. The results indicate that at one side the insertion of sustainability in the business schools curricula has shown advances in the last years. Experiences are being conducted in most of the studied schools in terms of curricula, research, community extension, student opportunities, academic staff development, inclusion of sustainable goals in the vision and mission declarations and even in the university governance and administration. At the other side, the experiences show there is still a distance from meaningful changes that may affect the presuppositions of the business education. It is important to mention this scenario is not a prerogative of the Brazilian context, as studies of Calder e Clugston (2003), Tauchen and Brandli (2006) and others indicate this is an international issue. Nonetheless, this does not minimize the need for a significant effort from the Brazilian schools for the advancement of alternative models towards an education for sustainability. / Entre as razões do crescente interesse pelo tema educação para sustentabilidade nas escolas de administração, está a crença de que esta tem um papel central na formação de uma nova geração capaz de pensar e agir por princípios que vão muito além das preocupações de cunho econômico. Na esfera acadêmica internacional, estudos se multiplicaram nas últimas duas décadas, tanto em número quanto em diversidade de abordagens. Apesar de um cenário global promissor, no Brasil, por sua vez, a discussão da educação para sustentabilidade no ensino superior ainda é pouco disseminada, tanto nas práticas que relacionam educação, meio ambiente e sociedade nos cursos de educação superior, quanto na literatura que sustenta as discussões acadêmicas a respeito do tema. Assim, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo discutir os significados de educação para sustentabilidade nas instituições de ensino superior e suas implicações para a formação da nova geração de administradores. A intenção foi refletir sobre as experiências dos responsáveis pela direção e coordenação dos cursos de graduação na inserção da sustentabilidade no currículo de administração de empresas, no contexto brasileiro, promovendo um debate sobre suas especificidades, dificuldades e avanços em relação às tendências mundiais nesse campo. Para tanto, um estudo qualitativo foi conduzido com diretores e coordenadores de 17 cursos de graduação nas regiões nordeste, sul e sudeste do país. As principais estratégias de coleta de dados foram entrevistas em profundidade e análise documental. Parte o estudo de uma discussão sobre sustentabilidade, suportada por autores como Sachs (1995), Wright (2004) e Shriberg (2002). Em seguida procede-se a uma análise da literatura internacional sobre educação para sustentabilidade, revisando autores europeus, norte-americanos, africanos, latino-americanos e outros. Por fim, recorre-se a Down (2006), Beringer (2007), Lozano-García, Huisingh e Fabián (2009), para discutir experiências de inserção da educação para sustentabilidade. Os resultados indicam que, por um lado, a inserção da sustentabilidade no currículo das escolas de administração e negócios brasileiras têm demonstrado avanços nos últimos anos. Experiências já estão sendo conduzidas como as que se observou na maior parte das escolas participantes do estudo em termos de currículo, pesquisa e extensão, participação de alunos, capacitação de docentes, inclusão de metas sustentáveis nas declarações de visão e missão e, até mesmo na gestão universitária. Por outro lado, as experiências também indicam a distância que se tem de qualquer iniciativa nos cursos de administração que sinalize um rompimento ou uma revisão dos pressupostos que há anos vêm fundamentando a formação do administrador. É importante que se diga, contudo, que este cenário também não é prerrogativa do contexto brasileiro, as pesquisas de Calder e Clugston, (2003), de Tauchen e Brandli (2006), entre outros, indicam uma preocupação mundial nesse sentido, que não minimiza, em nada, a necessidade de um empenho significativo de nossas escolas de administração em fazer avançar modelos alternativos que respondam ao que se espera de uma formação para a sustentabilidade.