Presidential Library

Printable supplements to the session handout

Reading recommendations from:
          Gary Althen (2006)
          John Greisberger (2006)
          David Horner (2010)
          Kay Thomas (2010)
          Jerry Wilcox (2006)
          Valerie Woolston (2006 & 2010)

 

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Printable supplements to the session handout

• Ideas addressed in Richard Brislin's The Art of Getting Things Done: A Practical Guide to the User of Power

• Thirty Methods of Influence from Stephen R. Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership

• Do-It-Yourself Professional Development by Gary Althen

• Saying No to Foreign Students by Gary Althen and Virginia Gross

• "Hot Sockets" of Communication Noise, by Kay Clifford, University of Michigan

• STOP! Let’s Look at What’s Happening Here by Mark M. Harris, University of Iowa

• The American Educational Administrator: Examining Some Assumptions by Gary Althen

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Gary Althen

• Birnbaum, Robert. (1988). How Colleges Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

• Goldberg, Ronald J. (1999). The 9 Ways of Working. New York: Marlowe & Co.

• Hofner Saphiere, Dianne, Kappler Mikk, B. & Ibrahim Devries, B. (2005). Communication Highwire: Leveraging the Power of Diverse Communication Styles. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.

• Stone, Douglas, Patton, B, & Heen, S. (1999). Difficult conversations. New York: Penguin.

• Storti, Craig. (2004). Americans at work. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.

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John Greisberger

• Abrashoff, Captain D. Mivhael. (2002). It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy. New York: Warner Books.

• Collins, James C. & Porras, J. I., (1994). Built to last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: HarperCollins (HarperBusiness).

• Peters, Thomas J. & Waterman, Jr., R. H. (1984). In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-run Companies. New York: Warner Books.

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David Horner

• Albom, Mitch. (2009). Have a Little Faith. Chinga: Da Kuai Wen Hua.

• Capra, Fritjof (2004-2010). "Life and Leadership."

• Gifford, Rob. (2007). China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power. New York: Random House.

• Mortenson, Greg. (2006). Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School At A Time. New York: Puffin Books.

• Mortenson, Greg. (2009). Stones into Schools. New York: Viking Books.

• Steward,Rory. (2004). The Places in Between: A Walk Across Afghanistan. London: Picador.

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Kay Thomas

• Collins, James. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap — and Other Don't. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

• Collins, James. Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great. New York: HarperCollins Publisher, Inc.

• Gaston, Paul. (1999). The Challenge of Bologna: What U.S. Higher Education has to Learn from Europe and Why It Matters.

• Lahiri, Jhumpa. (2004). The Namesake. Boston: Mariner Books.

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Jerry Wilcox

• Blanchard, Ken. Author of the "situational leadership" model, which is used in NAFSA management training. www.kenblanchard.com

• Gladwell, Malcolm. (2002). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company

• Johnson, Spencer. (1998). Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

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Valerie Woolston

• Deardorff, Darla K. (2009).The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
  A compendium of articles from experts and scholars who come from a variety of fields who do work in intercultural competence. You will recognize many of the authors. It reviews current views in the field.

• Eggers, Dave. (2006). What Is the What, The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. New York: Vintage Books.
  A novel which instructs, discusses, illuminates war, refugees, Sudan, the Lost Boys and the coming of the Lost Boys to America. A deeply moving novel that is instructive to international educators. It is filled with raw emotional power and is a political and moral novel.

• Fisher, Roger & Ury, W. (1981). Getting to yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in. New York: Penguin Book Group ,Viking Penguin Inc.
  This is an oldie but goodie. Great for international educators in negotiations with students, faculty and other administrators.

• Stearns, Peter N. (2009). Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities: Challenges & Opportunities. New York: Routledge.
  Excellent, practical, theoretical and covers many bases: Education Abroad: Defining a Staple; International Students and Global Education; Branch Campuses & Collaborations: A new frontier; Leadership and Administration: Bureaucratic Innovation without Bureaucratization.

• Chinua, Achebe. (1959). Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

• Friedman, Thomas L. (2005). The World is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• Journal of Research in International Education. The International Baccalaureate Organization and SAGE Publication Ltd., 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, UK. Journal published 3 times a year in April, August and December

• Hoffman, Eva. (1989). Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language. New York: Penguin Books.
  N.B. This is not the Lost in Translation that was made into the movie about Japanese/U.S. culture. This is an incredible book about a Polish girl's exile experience of moving to Canada and then the U.S.

• Hosseini, Khaled. (2003). The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books, Division of Penguin Books.

• Mestenhauser, Joesef A., Gayland, M. & Steglitz, I. (1988). Culture, Learning and The Disciplines. Washington, D.C.: NAFSA.

• Pham, Andrew X. (1999). Catfish and Mandala: A Two-wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. New York; Picador.
  A memoir and travelogue and a deep look into Vietnam. A very surprising book.

• Schultz, Patricia. (2003). 1000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List. New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.