...with the faculty senate chair who also serves on administrative council.” Fiege works directly with faculty and with the deans and other administrators to get faculty buy-in on what the...
...leave rough spots on the academic epidermis. Effective deans know how to administer policies and practices that soften the impact and smooth rough edges, for all concerned, of negative decisions...
...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....
...challenging. Thinking back about deans I had known in the past—in various schools and departments, at a range of college and university sizes and with differing governance models—I quickly constructed...
...to associate deans, full-time faculty, academic advisers, and university staff members. Because of their devotion to helping students succeed, these faculty members have the innate ability to create a sense...
...You can read Part 1 here. Rebecca Pope-Ruark: You’ve talked elsewhere about the morale and the well-being of leaders being important as well, that often we talk about leaders in...
...Ueda is a doctoral fellow, Elizabeth Holcombe is a postdoctoral scholar, and Adrianna Kezar is the Dean’s Professor of Leadership and Wilbur-Keiffer Endowed Chair at the University of Southern California....
...previous familiarity with higher ed expectations, the extent of one’s social network, or the willingness of a department chair or other senior colleague to make time to mentor the candidate....
Those academics among us who have titled positions of leadership—dean, director, department chair—know what our supervisory responsibilities are. We know that we are charged with, among other duties, the supervision...