ABSTRACT
According to Terrell, there is no right or wrong approach in university presidential leadership, but there are effective and ineffective styles. In defining a modern university president, Bennis wrote, "A modern university president is expected to have practical vision, a good track record in administration, and national prominence as a scholar. He must be a good public speaker, fund-raiser". University presidents are generous in sharing how they lived out their leadership responsibilities and experiences. University presidents are taxed with the responsibility of fundraising, protection of academic freedom and university mission, provision of students' needs, provision of physical plant, negotiation of political structures, ongoing communication of institutional issues, and provision of leverage for the university's strategic changes. The frame of reference for looking at the functions of a Jesuit-Catholic university is the academic organization's situation within social, economic, and political environments.
