As a recently retired academic leader—a former department chair, division head, dean, vice president, provost, and interim president—I have had time to reflect on the joys and woes of leadership
Every academic leader invests time in strategic planning groups, presidential cabinets, councils of department chairs, dean’s council meetings, and similar regularly scheduled meetings. Academic leaders occasionally leave the campus for
As we are aware, most colleges and universities are highly reliant (if not solely dependent) on the use of itinerant, part-time adjunct faculty to teach a large percentage of the
Competency-based education (CBE) is currently touted as an important innovation in higher education that has the potential to disrupt the traditional model and to radically transform the way students receive
I’m excited to announce the first Leadership in Higher Education Conference, brought to you by Magna Publications, the publisher of Academic Leader. This leadership conference promises the same quality programming,
In a now legendary lecture at Cambridge’s Senate House in 1959, C.P. Snow coined the expression “the two cultures” as a way of characterizing what he saw as an increasing
At the turn of the 20th century, the master of business administration (MBA) degree was developed to encourage the use of scientific approaches to management as the industrial revolution hit
The faculty in our colleges and universities are frequently portrayed as being the focal point of resistance to change within the academy. When one spends many years in the academy,
The first six months (or even year) of a position is often called an academic leader’s “honeymoon period.” People are more likely to overlook an administrator’s mistakes and to cut
At a recent meeting with fellow community college administrators, I found myself increasingly bothered by the repeated invocation of a certain term: faculty buy-in. At this particular meeting, the term
