Brave Leadership: Courage and Transformation in US Higher Education
EDU A710Z
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Description
*Lottery-based Enrollment* This course will engage students in an exploration of what it means to be a courageous and transformative leader in U.S. higher education. Over the last two generations, neoliberalism and its fixation on profit, productivity, and performance has left higher education in a state of deep moral crisis, far afield from the values of "democracy" and "diversity" it regularly espouses. Naming and changing the vast forms of inequity and hypocrisy in higher education requires a bold integration of theory and practice—praxis—that is at once strategic, visionary, and ethically committed to transformation. This course will explore diverse case studies of brave leadership in higher education in the United States from the 1960s to the present. It will also offer our students the opportunity to both reflect on their own lived experiences with higher education and develop tools for transformation as they work to become courageous and transformative leaders in their own right.
Class Notes
Non-HGSE students cross registering into Lottery-based Enrollment courses must email registrar@gse.harvard.edu to request to be added to the lottery event. Please see this page of the Office of the Registrar website for more information. Please note that students may add, drop, or change the grading basis for J-Term courses in My.Harvard until January 5th. Beginning January 6th, students who wish to drop a J-Term course and have the DRP removed from their transcript must email registrar@gse.harvard.edu. This request must be submitted before 5:30pm on 1/8/2026.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
