If you are a new department head, you are likely focused on doing an excellent job. And you may believe that the work you do speaks for itself. It is important, however, to also cultivate ...
At a department heads’ meeting I attended a few years ago, the new head of a department that had a substantial presence in general education expressed concerns about the quality and usefulness of dual credit. ...
Years after the publication of Nathan Grawe’s 2017 book Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, there is still extensive discussion about how to best approach the impending enrollment cliff. Writing in The CPA Journal, ...
When you become department chair, you are likely to gain a new perspective on faculty morale in your unit. As a regular faculty member, you may not have known how deep the feelings ran or ...
Department heads communicate in a wide variety of ways. Even as offices have adopted tools such as instant messaging, email is still a mainstay—love it or hate it. Email can be an efficient way for ...
This article is the third in a three-part series about how to make data requests to boost recruitment and retention. Part one introduced approaches to accessing and using data, including ways to foster communication with ...
Data can be a powerful tool to guide your recruitment efforts. This article invites you to adopt a creative, entrepreneurial spirit as you expand your reach. In what follows, you will see examples of how ...
What data does your institution supply to you as a chair or program director? How does your institution use data about your unit to make decisions? Given what you know about your programs, does the ...
During my 11-year tenure as a department head, it became clear to me that most of us enter administration because we are optimistic individuals who want to help our academic units to grow and develop, ...
Being a department head is one of the hardest jobs on campus. Representing both the unit and the administration can be a real balancing act, and your most vital partner in this complex role is ...