Six Practical Solutions for Racial Tensions on Campus
...are consistent with best practices in handling discrimination complaints? Examine messaging to the university community. Again, similar to what institutions have done with respect to sexual misconduct, now seems to...
Spotlight on Campus Speech: Five Things to Consider When Addressing Student Protests
...the Constitution to compel or coerce students to salute the national flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance. “We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag...
Challenges Facing Community College Transfer Students
Over 40 percent of United States undergraduates enter postsecondary education through community colleges, according to the Community College Research Center, with four-fifths of those students indicating they intend to earn...
Becoming Stewards: Transforming New Leaders through Reflective Practice
...Is reflective practice an essential component of becoming a professional teacher? Reflective Practice, 17(3), 369–378. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2016.1169169 Mintzberg, H. (1989). Mintzberg on management: Inside our strange world of organizations. The Free...
Higher Education as a Public Good: A Perspective from Iceland
I recently served as a presenter for a capacity-building workshop held in Reykjavik, sponsored by the Fulbright Commission in Iceland. The program gathered international study leaders from all of Iceland’s...
Foster Faculty Scholarship with this Agenda
...conduct another time-consuming and expensive search. Not so obvious are several other consequences which, while even more costly, are often not recognized. For example, if the new faculty member was...
A Few Thoughts for the New Chief Academic Officer
New chief academic officers come to the job from a variety of backgrounds—faculty, deanships, or other administrative jobs. They come with widely varying expectations and assumptions about the CAO role,...
How to Be More Strategic with Online Program Planning
...nothing to do with it. Strategic planning can be complicated and can sometimes take months or even years to complete. On a very basic level, I view strategic planning...
Triangulating for a New Approach to Student Success
...tuition, textbooks, and room and board) and the heavy, long-term debt burden that often comes with an education, many students and parents are choosing less expensive institutions, online institutions, community...
When the End Is in Sight
...application fees for applications in process, or for those admitted but not yet matriculating? Who will communicate with these students, and is it possible to advise them into other related...