Overcoming the Challenges to Effective Faculty Development
...and at most others across the country, professional development is purely elective. And with the intense demands of teaching loads, committee obligations, and research agendas, why would an instructor spend...
Your University Is Too Small
...issues from very different perspectives? Isn’t face-to-face communication still a desirable attribute even in a world of electronic communication? The response is, at times, that all those things are perfectly...
Higher Education: Exporting Middle-Class Dreams
...middle class. We are not economists, political scientists, nor sociologists. We are simply steady observers of community college riffs and phrasings…. An examination of “class” differentiation mechanisms at American community...
Creating an Effective Mentoring Program
...be organized, teach effectively, research thoroughly, write lucidly, publish often, serve as effective committee members, and maybe even serve as successful administrators. How many new hires on your campus arrive...
Petty Principles: A Challenge to Higher Education Leaders in the Wake of a Social Injustice Crisis
...faculty, staff, and students. Importantly, we must demonstrate these same tenets in our wider community. Countless college and university mission statements include the terms community, collaboration, and diversity. We must...
Collaboration at the Heart of Successful Change Initiatives
...successful change agents: Theability to craft and communicate a compelling vision of the future and utilize strong storytelling skills to inspire the campus community to buy into that vision; The...
When Good Professors Turn into Bad Deans
...public domain and to gain recognition from their adoring students. They may also be highly idiosyncratic, better as lone ranger scholars than as team players. When dean search committees fail...
Five Newbie Mistakes Made by Academic Leaders
...way by committing five mistakes due to inexperience—at times bringing their honeymoon period to a sudden, inglorious close. Although these five newbie mistakes are most common among academic leaders who...
The Perception Problem
...research productivity exceeded our institutional expectations. And you served on more than your share of departmental committees, worked with the recommended number of advisees, and even chaired an important search...
5 Reasons to Keep Loving Your Job in Admissions
...told the story of how I helped advocate for an applicant in a way that took me full circle back to my own college search experience. I have been thinking...