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<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought tremendous challenges for the educational field, especially in terms of leadership strategies to be taken on a short notice in order to ensure both health security of the personnel and learners, but also adapt to an online teaching environment and other challenges. While several higher education institutions had partially or completely adapted to an online educational model, the COVID-19 period offered new challenges in terms of internationalization, investment in technology and financing, but also in terms of implementing new educational models, fully online or hybrid models. Based on a sample of 23 Universities from the European Union, the current research aimed to propose new directions of the academic leadership strategies and focus points during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as expected trends after the end of the pandemic.</p>
<p>Based on the study of the academic leadership strategies and models in the European Union, this paper offers an additional practical overview to existing studies in the field, as it inquires the implemented university leadership strategies in order to adapt and overcome the current pandemic crisis, as well as ensuring the continuity of activities and development of higher educational institutions.</p>
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought tremendous challenges for the educational field, especially in terms of leadership strategies to be taken on a short notice in order to ensure both health security of the personnel and learners, but also adapt to an online teaching environment and other challenges. While several higher education institutions had partially or completely adapted to an online educational model, the COVID-19 period offered new challenges in terms of internationalization, investment in technology and financing, but also in terms of implementing new educational models, fully online or hybrid models. Based on a sample of 23 Universities from the European Union, the current research aimed to propose new directions of the academic leadership strategies and focus points during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as expected trends after the end of the pandemic.
Based on the study of the academic leadership strategies and models in the European Union, this paper offers an additional practical overview to existing studies in the field, as it inquires the implemented university leadership strategies in order to adapt and overcome the current pandemic crisis, as well as ensuring the continuity of activities and development of higher educational institutions.

Academic leadership: agility in the digital revolution

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought tremendous challenges for the educational field, especially in terms of leadership strategies to be taken on a short notice...

Academic leadership: agility in the digital revolution

Published Online: Dec 31, 2021

Page range: 518 - 529

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2021-0047

Keywords
Academic leadership, higher education, online learning, crisis, educational model

© 2021 Alina Mihaela Dima et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Academic leadership: agility in the digital revolution

Published Online: Dec 31, 2021

Page range: 518 - 529

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2021-0047

KeywordsAcademic leadership, higher education, online learning, crisis, educational model

© 2021 Alina Mihaela Dima et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Academic leadership, higher education, online learning, crisis, educational model