...years of teaching and administrative experience and has led academic administrative teams as dean, vice president for academic affairs, and provost for 22 years at five different institutions. Follow Academic Leader on Facebook and Twitter....
...credit of my colleagues in our Office of Sustainability, our Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability, our colleagues in the Physical Plant Department, our current and past trustees, my presidential...
In a long-anticipated move, the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) withdrew the Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” Letter on sexual violence as well as its...
...How and why are our institutions doing this? The answer is Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the U.S. Department of Education’s (DoE) expanded interpretation of Title...
...program, or even across an institution helps both faculty and academic leaders develop a clear and accurate understanding of the activities that are occurring in classrooms. And data collection via...
...not. It did, however, give the results to department directors, who used them to modify the curriculum in those areas where students tended to get questions wrong. In this way...
...what you say and do about the data that matters. References 2016 Survey of Chief Academic Officers (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/2016-inside-higher-ed-survey-chief-academic-officers) KPMG’s 2015-2016 Higher Education Industry Outlook Survey (http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2016/04/survey-data-and-analytics-higher-ed-can-be-one-two-punch) Richard L. Riccardi is...
...and the field is beginning to gain traction for training academic leaders (Robison & Gray, 2017). This article defines coaching, elucidates the benefits, outlines two basic competencies, and provides a...
...these defenses really seem to be defenses not of the books and ideas themselves but of the academic departments and humanities faculty who teach them. These defenses ignore that our...
Exhaustion, burnout, anxiety, and depression are commonplace topics in most workplaces in the United States. Higher education is no exception. In the Healthy Minds study from the 2021–22 academic year,...