CHAPTER 7

The Dark Side of Higher Education Administration: The Untold Story of Women in Leadership

Marjorie L. McInerney and Deanna D. Mader

Marshall University

Introduction

The dark side of higher education is not a new discovery. Murder mysteries have even used the dark side of higher education as the central theme (Jones 1993). Sadly, harmful, hateful, and incompetent behaviors among the ivory towers have been in existence, in all likelihood, since the first ivory towers were erected. However, although not a new discovery, discussion of such behaviors among the cap and gown membership has remained a whisper and relegated to corner tables in coffee shops and offices with doors closed. Nowhere is this near-silence more evident than in the impact ...

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