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Developing Generative Higher Education Leaders

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Lasting Female Educational Leadership

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My multiple case study provided me with a lens into the nature, antecedents, and support of generativity in the leadership of female higher leaders in midlife. It examined intended leadership legacies, the reasons female higher education leaders believe that they are motivated to leave leadership legacies, and the environment at the research site for generative female higher education leaders.

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Hills, L. (2013). Developing Generative Higher Education Leaders. In: Lasting Female Educational Leadership. Studies in Educational Leadership, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5019-7_5

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