Seven Strategies to Grow Online Courses and Programs
...to the point of graduation. Learner support services include admissions, registration, financial aid, technology help, career counseling, academic advising, tutoring, library services, counseling, disability resource services, etc. Sometimes students are...
Spotlight on Campus Speech: Q&A with Michelle N. Deutchman of the ADL (Part 1)
...you note, some extremist groups do have coded language, called, “dog whistles,” such as “white rights,” “European Heritage,” number codes, and acronyms. Some campuses have encountered situations when outside groups...
Accountability in its Many Forms
...Retention.” Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference 65: 11 pgs. http://newprairiepress.org/accp/2015/Trends/3/. N. Douglas Lees, PhD, is associate dean for planning and finance, professor, and former chair of biology...
Hearing the Call: Helping Students Find a Vocation, Not Just a Job
...speaker, higher education consultant, and the owner of Hilltop Communications. Reprinted from “Hearing the Call: Helping Students Find a Vocation, Not Just a Job” in Academic Leader 32.12(2016)8 © Magna...
Checklists As an Academic Leadership Tool
...to Academic Transformation, is available from Jossey-Bass. References Gawande, A. (2010). The checklist manifesto: How to get things right. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books. Lagatree, K. M. (1999). Checklists for life:...
Checklists: An Academic Leadership Tool
...Training, Leadership & Assessment Services. His latest book, the second edition of The Essential Academic Dean or Provost: A Comprehensive Desk Reference, is available from Jossey-Bass. References Gawande, A. (2010)....
Mindful Academic Leadership
...(2011). Mindful learning in crisis management. Journal of Business Communication. 48(2), 116-147. Wong, S.Y., Chan, F.W., Wong, R.L., Chu, M.C., Kitty, L.Y.Y., Mercer, S.W., & Ma, S.H. (January 2011). Comparing the...
Developing a New Faculty-Evaluation System
...Percent Table) Composite Score/Each Category Totals Teaching (not less than 50 percent) 50 3.5 1.75 Scholarship 20 2.6 .52 Service* 20 4.0 1.2 Administration* 10 Total Composite...
Educating Students: The Moral Judgment Challenge for Higher Education
...D. (2006). Our underachieving colleges: A candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Hall, S. S. (2010). Wisdom:...
Bottom-Line Leadership
...enough to do research. If you don’t commercialize and create jobs, what’s the point?” (http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/2012%20State%20of%20the%20State%20Address%20Transcript.pdf). To the faculty, such statements appear to link universities with vocational training and academic research...