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Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership

Article: Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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 full story »

How to Survive the Next Fad in Academic Leadership

Article: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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 full story »

Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders

Article: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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 full story »

Five Ways to Ease the Transition for a New Chair

Article: Monday, October 26th, 2009

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 full story »

Proof a Shared Leadership Model Can Work

Article: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

For six years, Cecilia McInnis-Bowers and E. Byron Chew served as dean-partners for the division of business and graduate programs at Birmingham-Southern College, taking shared leadership beyond a simple division ... Read full story »

The Evolution of Accountability: Look Who's Accountable Now

Article: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

We hear a great deal these days about “accountability” in the academy. Many states (including South Carolina, where I try my best to be a “responsible” college administrator) have some ... Read full story »

Promoting Teaching Excellence: What Departments Can Do

Article: Thursday, May 14th, 2009

On Tuesday’s post, we discussed an Oxford University study that looked at departments recognized for their excellence in teaching at 11 research-intensive universities in Europe, Australia, and North America. Based ... Read full story »

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