Weight Management for Universities: Evaluating Academic Bloat
<span class="excerpt_part">...or “charge,” <strong>and</strong> a timeline. Why not a <strong>com</strong>mittee? Depending on the institutional culture <strong>and</strong> governance process, a <strong>com</strong>mittee may imply representation from every constituency. The role of the <strong>com</strong>mittee...</span>
Accountability in its Many Forms
...certain the data obtained are valid. Armed with the relevant data, the chair is now ready to lead changes that will improve the department’s position. While a number of examples...
How to Have a Difficult Conversation: 7 Rules
...one area of research and I’m lobbying for another area. We need to understand each other, see common ground, and then we’ll be able to more effectively [answer the question]...
Hearing the Call: Helping Students Find a Vocation, Not Just a Job
...graduates will eventually make up the gap. But comparing the two types of paths is not a valid analysis, and it is not helped by the current political climate, which...
Clery’s October 1 Deadline Has Passed. What Now?
...an institution scrambling when ED comes knocking at the door. At this point, it is too late. Achieving Compliance Even though the Oct. 1 deadline has passed for 2017, there...
Deans’ Interpersonal/Negotiating Skills
...planning, accreditation, and summer school planning. While we recognize that our combined eight-week recording and analysis of our daily patterns of interacting and negotiating with others represents a small sample...
Developing Critical Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Academic Leaders
...complex competences with a focus on the critical cross-cultural communicative competence (C5) that is more relevant to our discussion of diversity and inclusion. According to Sehlaoui (1999, 2011, 2018b), C5...
Fostering Strategic Autonomy
...why they took their jobs in the first place. Faculty members commonly assume that chairs, deans, and vice presidents have all the freedom they need to set their own priorities...
Stepping Out of Silos: Building Best Practices for Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness
...the American community college. New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011(153), 37-52. Ryan, T. (2015). Quality assurance in higher education: A review of literature. Higher Learning Research Communications, 5(4), 1-12. doi:10.18870/hlrc.v5i4.257...
Red America, Blue America: A Country (Campus) Very Much Divided
...factions when it comes to the electorate, but most Americans probably have more in common than this you might think. So, how does one put aside stereotypes and formulate a...