Leadership Library

This Leadership Library is offered as a resource to current and aspiring faculty leaders. It includes materials that have been collected through people’s recommendations, past campus speakers and programs, and relevant scholarship from faculty colleagues at KU. The library has not been further curated by the Office of Faculty Affairs, and no endorsement should be assumed by the inclusion (or absence) of particular materials. We hope the Leadership Library will be a resource that stimulates personal growth and thought-provoking engagement with varied perspectives. We also welcome additional recommendations at facultyaffairs@ku.edu.

Title Author Publication Date Status Tags
Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education

Peter Felten, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Aaron Kheriaty, and Edward Taylor

2013 Available Mentoring
Turn the Tide: Rise Above Toxic, Difficult Situations in the Workplace

Kathy Obear, Ed. D.

2016 Available Conflict, Teams
Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job

Otto Kroeger with Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

2002 Available Strengths
Using Your Executive Coach

E. Wayne Hart and Karen Kirkland

2001 Available Coaching, Ideas into Action
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Bettina L. Love

2019 Available Race, Teaching, Equity
What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy

Robin DiAngelo

2012 Available Whiteness, Diversity, Race
What If I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People

Vernā A. Myers

2013 Available Communication, Diversity, Non-violent Communication, Change, Bias
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

Kate Fagan

2017 Available Self-Care, Parenting
When I Was White: A Memoir

Sarah Valentine

2019 Available Bias, Family, Social Identity, Race, Whiteness
When No One Answers the Call

Jane S. Halonen and Dana S. Dunn

2017 Available Department Chairs
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do

Claude M. Steele

2010 Available
White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Robin DiAngelo

2018 Available Whiteness, Bias, Communication, Race
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

1997 Available Diversity, Equity, Bias, Social Identity, Race
Wooden on Leadership

John Wooden

2005 Available Leadership, Teams