{"id":35481,"date":"2024-12-05T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35481"},"modified":"2024-12-05T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:02:43","slug":"furman-trustee-ambrose-talks-leadership-with-che","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-trustee-ambrose-talks-leadership-with-che\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Trustee Ambrose talks leadership with Chronicle of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/newsletter\/the-edge\/2024-12-04\">The Edge<\/a>, a biweekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/chuck-ambrose\/\">Chuck Ambrose<\/a> &#8217;83, a Furman University sociology alumnus and trustee, discusses the leadership qualities necessary for navigating potentially choppy waters ahead in academe. In his &#8220;call for courage&#8221; 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 &#8220;unproductive parts of campus operations or underenrolled academic departments,&#8221; and &#8220;middle managers who don\u2019t play well with others.&#8221; Finally, Ambrose encourages leaders to \u201cput yourself second and those you serve first &#8211; that could be your faculty, your campus community, or most importantly, your students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A free subscription may be required to view the content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Ambrose knows firsthand what it takes to make difficult decisions in the academic space. He has words of advice for leaders in The Chronicle of Education&#8217;s newsletter, The Edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,2944,6,90,22,3162,3161],"tags":[3163,3164,708],"class_list":["post-35481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-board-of-trustees","category-in-the-news","category-president","category-sociology","category-the-chronicle-of-higher-education","category-the-edge","tag-academic-leadership","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-servant-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35485,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35481\/revisions\/35485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}