As the COVID-19 pandemic moves into its next phase, academic leaders are facing a new set of organizational challenges. A return to pre-pandemic programs, structures, and processes is unlikely at
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
We all know where we were when the pandemic was declared, but where were you when you first heard the term pivot?
Academics manage by meetings. Half of the day in the life of a department chair is spent in formal meetings (average length: 50 minutes), and another 22 percent in informal
In the past 18 months, students, faculty, and staff experienced what can only be described as trauma. Many have returned to campus after enduring the loss of family members; others
Never in recent history has an interdisciplinary approach to the natural world and the humans who call it home been more important or necessary. The global pandemic, economic crisis, social
Many of the major decisions regarding how campus reopenings will take place have been made. Most institutions have announced that they will start the fall semester with primarily in-person classes.
One challenge that manifested during the COVID-19 pandemic was the lack of strategic and crisis planning support for small businesses and community nonprofits. Resource gaps—such as in finances, supplies and
With the difficult 2020–21 academic year now behind us, most people in higher education are looking forward to the fall semester return of students to campus, the disappearance of face
Nearly everyone finds twins interesting. That is so, in part, because twins are relatively rare, with only three or four out of 1,000 births producing twins and only about 25
