...call it applied humanities. Applied humanities courses tailor humanities content to the specific concerns of and issues within a particular professional program. Moreover, applied humanities courses have a strong component...
...Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti is chair of LHE19, editor of Academic Leader, adjunct professor of communication design at Miami University, adjunct professor of art at Wittenberg University, and owner of Hilltop...
...senior partner of ATLAS: Academic Training, Leadership & Assessment Services. His latest book, Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference, is available from...
...University Chief Academic Officers, visit https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/2017-inside-higher-ed-survey-chief-academic-officers. Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti is the managing editor of Academic Leader and the chair of the 2017 Leadership in Higher Education Conference. She is the...
...conducting an external search for department chair well before the start of Professor Kim’s ill-fated chairship. The position of the department chair is one of the most difficult in the...
...a department chair. Whether becoming a first-time chair or a slightly seasoned department leader, you are armed with only peripheral leadership experience to address a variety of constituents and audiences,...
...be taught, and in what course or courses? What will students do to demonstrate capability? Deans and department chairs need to facilitate planning of skills to ensure comprehensive and systematic...
...last academic year as chair. This gives the incoming chair an entire academic year to work with the outgoing chair to better understand the position. Provide faculty with leadership opportunities....
...triangular relationship necessary for 21st-century student learning to be most effective and engaging. Begin with faculty recruitment and development Because most faculty outside of major research institutions teach only undergraduates,...
...the initiative can be both an annoyance and a challenge to the academic leader. Several strategies are available to the leader. If the leader is aware of dissenters’ concerns and...