Interim Administrative Appointments in Higher Education: Considerations for Potential Applicants
...are well-defined, traditional career paths for some administrative positions (e.g. the chair-dean-provost-vice-president-chancellor/president sequence), there are intermediate steps along the way (associate chair, associate dean, director, division head) as well as...
Promoting and Encouraging Undergraduate Research
...reserved. Reference Snow, Allison A., Janice DeCosmo and Said M. Shokair, “Low-Cost Strategies for Promoting Undergraduate Research at Research Universities,” Peer Review, Spring 2010, Association of American Colleges and Universities....
Planning Priorities for Leaving the Chair Position: Part 2
...professor, and former chair of biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Reprinted from “Planning Priorities for Leaving the Chair Position” in Academic Leader 31.6(2015)2,5 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved....
Reflections on “Becoming” a Department Chair
...Admin 101: The art of gracefully accepting defeat. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/admin-101-the-art-of-gracefully-accepting-defeat Whitaker, M. (2020, July 27). How to be a trauma-informed department chair amid Covid-19. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-be-a-trauma-informed-department-chair-amid-covid-19...
Tending to Your Mental Health while Leading through a Crisis
...Electronic Physician, 9(9), 5212–5222. https://doi.org/10.19082/5212 Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J. T., & Rapson, R. L. (1993). Emotional contagion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2(3), 96–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.ep10770953 Hussein, D., & Bhushan, B. (2010). Psychology of...
Well-Being and Well-Thinking: How to Stay Healthy in Academia
...theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56(3), 218–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.56.3.218 Good, A. (n.d.). Resources. Retrieved from https://failforward.org/resources#materials Lundin, S. C., Paul, H., & Christensen, J. (2000). Fish!: A remarkable way to boost morale and improve...
Mercenary U
...probably all soon be working at Mercenary U. Resources on state funding: 25 Years of Declining State Support for Public Colleges http://www.chronicle.com/interactives/statesupport?cid=megamenu Public Research Universities: Changes in State Funding http://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/researchpapersmonographs/PublicResearchUniv_ChangesInStateFunding.pdf...
The Research Process and Its Relevance to the Culture of Assessment
...to answer the research questions (surveys, interviews, historical analysis) Types of assignments or activities that will measure whether objectives are being met (i.e., research papers, exam questions, discussion boards, pretests...
The Research Process and Its Relevance to the Culture of Assessment
...measure whether objectives are being met (i.e., research papers, exam questions, discussion boards, pretests and posttests, and also direct and indirect measures) Conclusion Use and analysis of results to support...
Can a Capstone Course Try to Accomplish Too Much?
...field that offers a culminating course experience. Reference: Upson-Saia, K. (2013). The capstone experience for the religious studies major. Teaching of Theology and Religion, 16 (1), 3-17. Reprinted from “Can...