Furman Trustee Ambrose talks leadership with Chronicle of Higher Education

In The Edge, a biweekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chuck Ambrose ’83, a Furman University sociology alumnus and trustee, discusses the leadership qualities necessary for navigating potentially choppy waters ahead in academe. In his “call for courage” among campus leadership, Ambrose espouses the notion of standing up for free inquiry and taking a stand on issues, forgoing fence-straddling. Internally speaking, he admonishes administrators to take a long, hard look at “unproductive parts of campus operations or underenrolled academic departments,” and “middle managers who don’t play well with others.” Finally, Ambrose encourages leaders to “put yourself second and those you serve first – that could be your faculty, your campus community, or most importantly, your students,” he said.

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