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Author: Tim Cloyd
On July 1, 2016, Dr. James Timothy Cloyd began his tenure as Drury University's 18th president. Drury is a leading private liberal arts university in Springfield, Missouri. Cloyd previously served as president of Hendrix College, in Conway, Arkansas from 2001-2013.
Cloyd’s strategic vision and leadership, presidential experience and accomplishments, and proven fundraising prowess made him the clear choice to become Drury’s next leader.
Under his leadership at Hendrix, the institution’s enrollment grew by over 50% and the faculty by 35%. His strategic vision made Hendrix the national leader in engaged liberal arts and has enhanced the institution’s visibility and prestige. During this time he raised over $160 million for the endowment and to fund numerous academic and capital projects, including 17 new buildings. The initiatives undertaken by Hendrix under Dr. Cloyd’s leadership have raised the quality indicators of the student body, increased diversity and driven internationalization. His strategy to differentiate the College increased net student revenue from 2004-2010 by more than 52%.
The innovations undertaken by Hendrix during Dr. Cloyd’s years of leadership at Hendrix have been featured in The New York Times, Money Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, and Time. His leadership has been featured in a book titled Leading Change, How Boards and Presidents Build Exceptional Academic Institutions. Dr. Cloyd is an active consultant in higher education, organizational culture, management, and development.
For my Uncle Pat Shannon who has always given me inspiration and been a rock
"For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for your harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me, if …
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“The Coddling of the American Mind”
This article in the September issue of the Atlantic Monthly by Greg Lukinaoff and Jonathan Haidt, about American Higher Education Campuses, is sadly spot on. Unfortunately, they write it from the perspective of the left and liberals, but the same applies to conservative and particularly religiously conservative students. It is a crisis. I will have …
Leadership Duality Number Five – The Pressure of Leadership Decisions
As a leader you have been faced with this duality and you know it when you see it. The decision! Usually, one would think from the outside things are black or white. You just make the call based on the information at hand. In reality this is rarely true that things are clear. Things are …
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Additional Thoughts on The Duality of Leadership: The Agent – Structure Problem
I have been reading Cohen and March's study on leadership. They studied 46 college and university presidents to discover "leadership effectiveness." Their conclusion: Higher Education leadership is mythological! In an often quoted line they say, "an organization's leader is like being the driver of a skidding car. There is little a leader can do to …
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Dualities of Leadership – Duality Number Three
The idea springs on us. The leader is a special person with specific traits, character or maybe a special personality. Yes, that's it! This is what has produced the great leaders of history .... this psychological disposition! But wait! Isn't leadership just a social construction made possible by willing followers, by society, by time and …
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A Poem of Mom and Dad
Mom and Dad Be Happy Laugh Seek joy But sing songs of praise and awe? Time was when we could feel anything But sunset days now draw close And new old sweet and bitter smells Roll up and up and up Circling us and our brows Like a halo Ethereal Crowns Smiles reveal cracks on …
Dualities of Leadership – Duality Number Two
The idea that leadership is something universal in that there is something that unites all leaders has been around for a long time. We want to believe that we can see commonalities between successful leaders at different points in history, under different circumstances. But the idea eats at us deep down that leadership is particularistic …
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A STUDENT ONCE ASKED ME ‘PROFESSOR CLOYD WHAT IS DUALITY’
I was tempted to tell him to "google it up", then I thought perhaps I should tell him one of my favorite lessons of the Buddha - a novice asks a master the key to everything. The master says to the novice "have you finished your rice? The novice says yes and the master says …
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Dr. J. Timothy Cloyd 