Tag: communication strategies
This article first appeared in The Best of the 2022 Leadership in Higher Education Conference (Magna Publications, 2023). Today’s professionals use the term “burnout” to describe how a person might feel about their personal and professional ...
A former department head of mine closed many of their emails with “Thanks for all you do.” It was nice the first time I read it. The second and third time, not so much. I ...
In academia as in every other aspect of life, effective communication is a key skill. And we must never minimize the importance of having this skill. Communication can either make or break a negotiation and ...
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 ...
In March 2020, Coastal Carolina University joined hundreds of colleges and universities by moving to online instruction in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. That move, along with shutting down most campus operations and managing ...
In response to the public health concerns of spring 2020, colleges and universities established remote teaching in rapid fashion and reestablished best practices–based, active education using discussion boards and other means to promote learner collaboration. ...
The #MeToo movement raised awareness as to the prevalence of sexual assault and sexual harassment in business, politics, and academia. Consider a few of the recent high-profile cases involving universities:
