Leadership and the ATHE

In today’s increasingly globalized, competitive, and fiscally-afflicted, higher-education environment, academic leaders are regularly expected to serve as both “visionaries” and “managers” adept in all forms of political, economic, and social engagement. Likewise, performing arts leaders share a similar fate, as they need to be versatile tacticians skilled equally in both business and art. Given these realities, for higher education performing arts programs, the challenges are greater. These programs — and their parent institutions — require leadership and leaders capable of handling both immediate complexity and long-term transformation. As such, leadership development critical to this mission is a priority. This article explores the intricacies of higher education and the performing arts, and discusses the correlative characteristics of leadership, management, mentoring, coaching, and networking. Additionally, it provides in-depth description and critical analysis of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Leadership Institute — as the institute is a unique leadership initiative specifically designed to address this enigmatic niche subset of higher education

Working Paper 68 - Governance and Poverty Reduction in Africa

Of the 4 billion people that are known to be poor in the world today, Africa hasmore than her fair share, and the number of the poor, as percentage of the totalAfrican population, has been steadily increasing since independence. While thestate played an extremely important role in financing social welfare during the firstdecade after the independence of most African countries, this role has declinedwith time. Malnutrition, high child mortality, lack of access to basic education,homelessness, and various types of social indignity have been dominant features ofthe decline of human development standards in Africa.Yet Africa has the resources and the potential to overcome these indignities if onlypublic revenues were used responsibly and accountably, resources developedproductively for satisfying human goals and public authorities put priority on meetingbasic human needs and not excessive human wants.In this paper we argue that the challenge for good governance in Africa needs tobegin by recognizing and accepting this fundamental point of departure. Thelegitimacy of any government of a modern democratic republic must begin withtaking into account the basic needs of its citizens in terms of food, shelter, clothing,education, health, security and social solidarity or human dignity. It is unfortunatethat these basic values may easily be sacrificed at the altar of “market direction” orneo-liberal dictates that look much more at macro-economic fundamentals ratherthan the “human needs fundamentals”.Hence the principal indicators of poverty reduction need to begin by looking atimprovements of the standards of living of the people given the above human needsfundamentals. Quite often, while these could be realized, governments in Africawaste valuable resources in corruption, excessive private and public consumptionand external debt repayments and servicing. In order to recapture the road tosustainable development, good governance needs to be refocused on governancefor meeting the basic needs of the citizens, i.e. poverty reduction in our historicalcontext.

"Like wildfire" The east German rising of June 1953

Before the archives of the East German state were opened in the early 1990s the rising of June 1953 had already been well documented, largely on the basis of eyewitness reports and the East German press. It was thought that up to 372,000 workers took strike action, and that many of these participated, along with several hundred thousand others, in marches, rallies, occupations and other forms of direct action. Much was known about the sequence of events, the demands voiced, and about some of the individuals involved. As the first of several mass uprisings against Stalinist regimes, but doubtless also due to the breathtaking speed with which a strike at a Berlin building site spread to other workplaces and thence to streets and public squares nationwide, it attracted a good deal of attention from historians. An abundance of books, articles and pamphlets followed

MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION MODEL WITH ENTRANCE FEE

We study the monopolistic competition model with producer-retailer-consumers two-level interaction. The industry is organized according to the Dixit–Stiglitz model. The retailer is the only monopolist. A quadratic utility function represents consumer preferences. We consider the case of the retailer's leadership; namely, we study two types of behavior: with and without the free entry condition. Earlier, we obtained the result: to increase social welfare and/or consumer surplus, the government needs to subsidize (not tax!) retailers. In the presented paper, we develop these results for the situation when the producer imposes an entrance fee for retailers

L'Etat, c'est pas moi : Reframing citizenship(s) in the Baltic republics

This book speaks to readers with a particular interest in the Baltic states as well as to those with a broader interest in post-communist democratization and citizenship. The notion of citizenship has not been prominent in academic perspectives on post-communism. This study aims at bringing citizenship back into these perspectives. Starting from the idea that citizenship is both a condition of democracy and an indicator of the level of democracy in a given society, the author studies the extent to which theories of citizenship currently dominating political science account for the specific experience of people living in the Baltic countries. This study's theoretical bedrock is thus a critical overview of the republican, liberal and cultural conceptions of citizenship, done in relation to the historically specific nature of post-communism. The analytical instrument derived from this critical overview of theory is a two-dimensional model of citizenship called the Legacy and the Scruples. That model draws insights from, notably, linguistics and anthropology. It is applied to Baltic citizens' experiences of both communist and post-communist citizenships. Ruptures and continuities between these two kinds of citizenship are highlighted. This study argues that the current weakness of citizenship in the Baltic states is due not so much to difficulties in managing ethnic diversity (although such difficulties exist) than to more specifically political factors. These factors are linked to the ways citizenship and political power are conceived of and exercised in these countries

Innovating in Teaching Collaborative Practice with a Large Student Cohort at Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal implemented an interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum on collaborative practice in a large cohort of students (>1,100) from 10 health sciences and psychosocial sciences training programs. It is made up of three one-credit undergraduate courses (CSS1900, CSS2900, CSS3900) spanning the first 3 years of training. The course content and activities aim for development of the six competency domains identified by the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. This paper describes the IPE curriculum and highlights the features contributing to its success and originality. Among main success key factors were: administrative cooperation among participating faculties, educators eager to develop innovative approaches, extensive use of clinical situations conducive to knowledge and skill application, strong logistic support, close cooperation with health care delivery organizations, and partnership between clinicians and patients. A distinguishing feature of this IPE curriculum is the concept of partnership in care between the patient and caregivers. Patients’ representatives were involved in course planning, and patients were trained to become patients-as-trainers (PT) and cofacilitate interprofessional discussion workshops. They give feed- back to students regarding integration and application of the patient partnership concept from a patient’s point of view. Lire l'article/Read the article : http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=0090-7421&volume=42&issue=4&spage=97E&epage=106

Vivências diaspóricas em comunidades quilombolas: empoderamento, autorreflexão e novas sociabilidades na comunidade Rio dos Macacos

In what way the empowerment process in Quilombola community Rio dos Macacos has produced a reflexive capacity and new sociabilities? We propose this reflection based on the thought of Stuart Hall. We consider that Quilombola communities rely on an accrual of diasporic experiences to reinforce resistance movement. In the empowerment process of Rio dos Macacos community, we have observed the reflexive capacity within the stories, documents and on the campaign "Somos todos Rio dos Macacos" [We are all Rio dos Macacos"]. New sociabilities were established on the campaign, in 2012, as well as in the oficial territory delimitation as a quilombo remainder community, in 2015.De que forma o processo de empoderamento na comunidade quilombola Rio dos Macacos gerou capacidade autorreflexiva e novas sociabilidades? Propomos esta reflexão à luz do pensamento de Stuart Hall. Consideramos que as comunidades quilombolas recorrem a um acúmulo de experiências diaspóricas para fortalecer o movimento de resistência. No processo de empoderamento da comunidade Rio dos Macacos, percebemos a capacidade autorreflexiva nos relatos, documentos e na campanha “Somos todos Rio dos Macacos”. Novas sociabilidades foram estabelecidas, tanto na campanha, em 2012, quanto na delimitação oficial do território como comunidade remanescente de quilombo, em 2015

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE EMERGENCE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK, SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN OREL/ORAO MOVEMENTS

The beginnings of the Orel movement can be found in the Czech lands and Slovakia at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, where it was a response to liberal trends and the Sokol organization, but also a movement founded in the Slav/cultural discourse which aspired to Orel mutualism, cultural unity and equal status as creators of European thought and socio-cultural renewal. The Orel movement came via Slovenia to Croatia, where the unified orientation of the Croatian Orao movement was determined by Ivan Merz through the introduction of the a specific course for the Croatian Orao movement, particularly apparent in the guidelines set forth in the encyclical Ubi Arcano Dei: political neutrality, a new approach to physical culture and comprehensive personal growth. This article analyzes the activity of the Orel/Orao movement in Czechoslovakia, Slovenia and Croatia and ascertains the specific aspects of the Croatian Orao Federation, summarizing them under the term Croatian Orao specificum