Ralph A Gigliotti Author & Editor

Brent D. Ruben is a distinguished professor in communication at Rutgers University, where he also serves as senior university fellow, advisor for strategy and planning in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and was the founder of the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership. He is also a member of the faculties of the Rutgers PhD program in higher education and the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. Brent is author or co-author of numerous publications in communication, organizational leadership, planning, assessment, and change, including Excellence in Higher Education Guide (Stylus, 2016), What Leaders Need to Know and Do (National Association of College and University Business Officers,2006), and Communication and Human Behavior (Kendall Hunt, 2020). Ruben was a founder of the Rutgers Department of Communication, and first PhD program director of the School of Communication and Information. He was a founder and first president of the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation in Higher Education (NCCI), served as Rutgers inaugural liaison and is a frequent contributor to the Big Ten Academic Alliance leadership programs, and serves as an adviser to colleges and universities has and nationally and internationally.

Richard De Lisi is an emeritus university professor of developmental psychology at Rutgers University and a Senior Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership. Richard was a faculty member at Rutgers University in New Brunswick for 43 years and had more than 25 years of experience as a formal leader at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education including chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, graduate program director for the Ph.D. in Education Program, graduate program director for the Ph.D. in Higher Education Program, and dean of the Graduate School of Education from2003 to 2014. Under De Lisi's leadership, the Graduate School of Education increased its on-line course offerings, developed its first on-line masters degree programs, developed teacher education and school counseling programs that received national accreditation, substantially expanded its Ph.D. in Education program; developed a new Ph.D. in Higher Education program; and revised its Ed.D. program as an initial cohort member of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate.

Ralph A. Gigliotti is director of the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers University where he provides executive leadership for the portfolio of academic leadership programs, consultation services, and research initiatives. He also has part-time faculty appointments in the Department of Communication, Ph.D. Program in Higher Education, and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He is author and co-author of numerous books and articles exploring the intersection of communication, leadership, and crisis in higher education, including Crisis Leadership in Higher Education: Theory and Practice (Rutgers University Press, 2019),Leadership in Academic Health Centers: Core Concepts and Critical Cases(Kendall Hunt, 2021), and A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education: Core Concepts, Competencies, and Tools(Stylus, 2016).