...from this discussion. Facing demands from students and faculty members to address the lack of racial minorities within their faculty ranks, university deans and department heads are struggling to address...
...description, leaving department chairs, deans, and other leaders in higher education looking for creative ways to pique students’ interest in those events and experiences that promote a positive campus experience....
...relationship between the department chair and the faculty is quite different from the relationship between an administrator and his or her supervisor. “[Department chairs] tend to be very benevolent bosses...
...Lorenzetti is the editor of Academic Leader and the chair of the Leadership in Higher Education Conference. She is the owner of Hilltop Communications (www.hilltopcommunications.net). She is also the author...
...relying on administrative authority. James Mabry, vice president of academic affairs at Mesa Community College, has employed the adaptive leadership model of Ronald Heifetz to address a common adaptive problem—student...
...and their reward was additional workload credits. As academic leaders analyzed the faculty balances, seeing numbers that would theoretically enable a faculty member to take off a year or more,...
...department’s climate results from collective contributions. If conversations about teaching regularly occur with faculty throughout the department, then the faculty member who’s been using multiple-choice exams and thinks they’re the...
...biology and former associate dean for planning and finance in the School of Science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. To sign up for biweekly email updates from Academic Leader, visit this link....
...is clear that institutions and campus leaders should take proactive steps to ensure that all students have quality social and academic experiences during this disruptive and uncertain time. Campus leaders...
This article appears in The Best of the 2021 Leadership in Higher Education Conference, forthcoming from Magna Publications. Post-pandemic teaching will ask us to focus on our classroom culture and...