Faculty are essential to addressing the large issues facing higher education institutions, such as increasing student diversity, budgetary challenges, and changes in course delivery methods. The challenge for academic leaders...
...a different synonym for hot. It was balmy and humid and muggy and oppressive and even tropical. I contacted our facilities department, which immediately dispatched our HVAC representative to troubleshoot....
...try to bring up things to our leaders, deans, or chairs, they were like, ‘Oh, my condolences.’ But then it would still be business as normal. There really was not...
...says. As director of instructional services, Gough participates in all adjunct-related functions, which include: Working with deans and associate deans to recruit adjuncts in specific areas Participating in interviews with...
...be so-named. When promotion time arrives, your department chair will request letters of recommendation. Some of these requests will go to the top 10. If the top 10 know your...
...the three classes I was scheduled to teach. My program leader agreed and said that she would run the idea by our faculty chair. If he agreed, she said that...
...or even thousands of meetings I’ve participated in. Whether it has been a one-to-one meeting with a faculty member or a Dean’s or Provost’s Council meeting, I’ve tried hard to...
...universities and small liberal arts colleges with limited endowments. Large public universities with strong research programs, solid academic reputations, and widespread public support and high-profile private liberal arts colleges have...
...to see the activity as problematic given that sound administrative practice doesn’t grab headlines. An earlier column in Academic Leader introduced SEL to leaders, so here we focus on how...
...associate dean of the College of Communication and Education at California State University, Chico, and a professor of education specializing in literacy development. Follow Academic Leader on Facebook and Twitter....