ABSTRACT
A core mission of public universities is to provide societies with highly qualified professionals, leaders and politicians who contribute to public good. Such a mission requires educational leaders capable of leading twenty-first-century higher education as, and for, public good. This chapter introduces the important conceptual and analytical tools in their own right, while seeking to deploy them in discussion and analysis of leading and teaching. It is important to acknowledge that there is legitimacy to the insistence by national governments that its higher education institutions be accountable, to vindicate the legal rights of employees and students alike. However, to provide higher education as, and for, public good depends as much on a social and moral responsibility implying responsiveness to the needs of all students and staff – beyond answering to predetermined, transparent and quantifiable quality criteria for education.
