Balancing stack of balls and blocks represent hardships of academic leadership

Faculty Development

Surviving a Leadership Transition

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on May 14, 2016 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Leadership changes in the upper administration can be stressful for chairs and deans. We’ve all seen situations in which a new chancellor or president arrives, and between six months and a year later, there’s an

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professor faces students while teaching them

Curriculum

Understanding and Managing Perceptions of Academic Rigor

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on August 25, 2017 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Faculty and students are not on the same page about what makes a course rigorous. Draeger, del Prado Hill, and Mahler (2015) find that “faculty perceived learning to be most rigorous when students are actively

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