The Art of Framing in Academic Settings (Part 1)
...account the local variables. Making sense of complex organizations in order to lead within them (and higher education institutions are very complex organizations with many subcultures) is called framing. The...
Chaos and Confusion: Reducing Instructional Uncertainty in Times of Crisis
...& Calabrese, R. J. (1975). Some explorations in initial interaction and beyond: toward a developmental theory of interpersonal communication. Human Communication Research, 1(2), 99–112. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1975.tb00258.x Dewey, J. (1933). How we...
The Administrative Role in Managing Difficult Students: A Look at the Literature
...those areas. The following is a summary of those findings and our suggestions of the administrative roles we found to be most prevalent. The initial search of literature on community...
How to Manage Your Email Inbox
...to store task-related messages, users inevitably will need to reopen messages in search of those messages. And having a full inbox increases the amount of time it takes to find...
Becoming a Self-Aware Leader
...your areas of weakness or beyond your interests. “Surround yourself with people who complement you, who can help you with the parts that don’t come naturally to you,” says Miguel....
7 Ways a Chair Can Promote Collegiality
...possible, he tries to accommodate individual faculty members’ teaching preferences. Use appropriate communication. Lawrence reminds faculty that they have options when it comes to talking about their concerns. If the...
Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage Faculty and Facilitate Change
...(MI). MI is a collaborative communication style, developed in the field of clinical psychology, for strengthening an individual’s intrinsic motivation and commitment to change. Within an atmosphere of acceptance, compassion,...
5 Tips on Closing Programs
...other related programs? Meet with the marketing and communications people to make sure the website is updated to show that applications are not being accepted at this time. In consideration...
Four Strategies to Improve Faculty Buy-In for Online Education
...to take on these additional duties. Communicate and be transparent Early on in my online education administrative career, I likely over-communicated with faculty and staff at my institution. However, I...
Online Education Data: What Are You Measuring, and How Are You Using It?
...often results in additional research questions that should be examined, the data we were collecting and sharing with campus was generating more questions that we could answer only by collecting...