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Mission and Philosophy

The Departmental Gestalt: Fostering Student Major Identity and Program Pride

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on September 4, 2020 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Like many others in the trenches of academia, we’ve chaired, taught, and advised in a small, understaffed, underfunded, and oversubscribed program. While other understaffed and oversubscribed departments limped along, ours notably thrived, resulting in strong

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Trisha K. Prunty and Diana L. D. Jacobs August 26, 2024 No Comments
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Leadership

Becoming Stewards: Transforming New Leaders through Reflective Practice

Whether one subscribes to the notion that leadership is simply one of several roles a manager plays in an organization (Mintzberg, 1989) or that management and leadership are two distinct processes, with the latter being the more visionary and inspiring of the two (Kotter, 1990), one cannot dispute the plethora of research on

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Scott Greenberger, Greg Rogers, and Rick Holbeck August 12, 2024 No Comments

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College students with books smiling to camera over grey wall, having break
Mission and Philosophy

The Departmental Gestalt: Fostering Student Major Identity and Program Pride 

Trisha K. Prunty and Diana L. D. Jacobs, 2 weeks ago 0 6 min read  
This article first appeared in Academic Leader on September 4, 2020 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Like many others in the trenches of academia, we’ve chaired, taught, and advised in a small, understaffed, underfunded, and oversubscribed program. While other understaffed and oversubscribed departments limped along, ours notably thrived, resulting in strong...
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