Academic Leadership
Setting academic priorities, evaluating faculty, succession planning, making the transition from faculty to administrator, the issues and leadership responsibilities are many, and seem to grow daily. Turn to Faculty Focus for academic leadership articles written to help deans, chairs, and other academic decision makers lead effectively.
March 18, 2010
A Productive Way to Harness Parental Involvement
As every academic leader can attest, the current generation of college students has been blessed with parents who remain highly invested in every aspect of their children’s education. It is ... Read more »
March 4, 2010
A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader – Part 2
Editor’s Note: Today we feature part 2 of Dr. Greenstreet’s “10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader.” If you missed part 1, please click here for yesterday’s ... Read more »
March 3, 2010
A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader
While entering the administrative ranks of academia might seem a formidable task, staying there presents a whole other series of challenges. The average length of stay for a dean, vice ... Read more »
January 26, 2010
Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership
Colleges and universities have realized increasingly that effective teaching by instructors and successful learning by students does not occur through serendipity. Even though more and more graduate programs are providing ... Read more »
December 10, 2009
Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance
Discussion of teaching and learning as an academic, scholarly endeavor has become an acceptable conversation on college campuses. A shift is beginning to take place whereby the scholarship of teaching ... Read more »
November 30, 2009
Stress Management Strategies for Academic Leaders and Faculty
During the past year or so the poor economy has forced everyone to do more with less. Now it’s almost December and we’re in the thick of the end-of-semester crunch ... Read more »
November 11, 2009
How to Survive the Next Fad in Academic Leadership
If you’ve worked in higher education long enough, you’ve already had this experience. A supervisor or member of your institution’s governing board calls an administrative retreat, and there, following the ... Read more »
November 4, 2009
Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned all-day orientation program to get new academic leaders acclimated and ready to tackle the challenges of their new positions, right? Wrong. Actually, there is a ... Read more »
October 26, 2009
Five Ways to Ease the Transition for a New Chair
Given the rate of department chair turnover and the skills and knowledge required to do the job well, it makes sense to consider ways to smooth the transition from faculty ... Read more »
October 16, 2009
Three Ways to Reduce Tenure Review Workload
Administrators can help inspire much-needed reform of the tenure and promotion processes at their institutions if they begin discussions of reducing the workload of both candidates and committees in the ... Read more »
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