Leadership as Service is an important work that breaks new ground in the area of servantleadership and higher education. In the tradition of Robert K. Greenleaf and Parker Palmer, Kent Farnsworth's book contains powerful insights into the nature of learning, leading, and serving others.

Jeff Hawkins Ed.D, President and CEO, The Greenleaf Center, Executive Director, Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative

Kent Farnsworth presents a compelling case for the need to change higher education in America while pointing out the significant obstacles today's leaders face. He draws upon his own experience and observations as a successful leader as well as the wisdom of some of history's most inspirational leaders and recognized organizational and leadership authorities to describe how today's college and university leaders can and must institutionalize change. According to Farnsworth, leaders can be effective if they practice a version of informed 'servant leadership' that builds trust, is inclusive, is empowering, is visionary, and yet decisive. Leadership as Service: A New Model for Higher Education in a New Century is a valuable contribution to the examination of effective leadership, and I highly recommend it to college and university leaders, trustees who employ and support them, and those who study leadership.

George R. Boggs, President and CEO, American Association of Community Colleges