When Faculty Overreact to Course Ratings
...a comment like that get under your skin. But the problem is that one comment gains such importance that it overshadows everything else students have said, including a multitude of...
Tending to Your Mental Health while Leading through a Crisis
...volume increased. Strategy 2: Find your friends and keep them close (metaphorically) We all need a cheering section. When much of the feedback comes from the squeakiest wheels (read: the...
Building a Pathway to Cultural Competence Through Academic Service Learning
...kit and the establishment of community partnerships. A Tools of Engagement website assists undergraduates in developing community-based research and engagement skills. In another example, the University of Nebraska at Omaha...
Leading Your Academic Department Toward Inclusion: How to Ensure Faculty are LGBTQ+ Competent
...advocates, whose work dealt with contemporary intersectional issues and topics related to the LGBTQ+ community. While the OTL Lecture Series had served as a key fixture to the Rainbow Center’s...
STEM Fatigue
...that it’s not good enough to do research. If you do not commercialize and create jobs, what’s the point? . . . Commercialize. Create jobs. Spin off companies.” (www.politicususa.com/2012/02/08/john-kasich-fail-teleprompters.html.) That...
STEM Fatigue
...research, based largely on a misunderstanding of how stem cells are actually obtained, is just one example. (The irony that stem cell research has been stigmatized even while the STEM...
Mindful Academic Leadership
<span class="excerpt_part">...programs either specialize in mindfulness-based leadership or offer it among their other workshops. See, <strong>for exam</strong>ple, the Authentic Leadership in Action Institute <strong>(www</strong>.aliainstitute.org), the Institute <strong>for</strong> Mindful Leadership <strong>(www</strong>.instituteformindfulleadership.org), <strong>and</strong>...</span>
Follow-up Budget Questions for New Chairs: Flexibility, Carry Over, and Incentives, Part II
...potential income sources that can contribute to department income are grant overhead and research release (buy-out) dollars. Are these income sources components in the department’s allocation? Do they contribute in...
Is Time Up for the Credit Hour?
...based on student competency. There are examples of schools that issue traditional transcripts along with a competency list, while others use a portfolio process to demonstrate competency. Although the conversation...
“Spider-Man Principle” and the “Categorical Imperative”: How to Address the Problem of “Managing Through”
...“pass the buck” up the chain of command? One workable solution to this problem is to decentralize as much authority as possible while imposing what we might call the “Spider-Man...