Posts Tagged ‘academic leader’
September 23 - Onboarding vs. Orientation: Getting New Leaders on a Path to Success
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
The transition to a new academic leadership position is full of complexities, unwritten rules, and new challenges. Whether the new provost, dean, or chair is new to the institution or has years of institutional knowledge, a simple orientation is not enough to get him or her off to a successful start, says Anne Massaro, project manager and organizational development consultant at The Ohio State University.
January 26 - Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership
By: Jeffrey Buller, PhD. in Academic 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 doctoral students with experience and training in how to teach at the college level, many faculty members still reach their positions largely through an education based on how to perform research, not on how to include students in that research or train others in their disciplines.
November 11 - How to Survive the Next Fad in Academic Leadership
By: Jeffrey Buller, PhD. 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 inevitable icebreakers, brainstorming, and team-building exercises, you are presented with the “bold new paradigm” that is to determine how you are to reorganize your unit, “reconceptualize” your leadership style, or modify every policy and procedure that is already in place. Someone, it seems, has been reading a management book and has bought into a new approach to how you should do your job.
November 4 - Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders
By: Mary Bart in Academic Leadership
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.
October 26 - Five Ways to Ease the Transition for a New Chair
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
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.
October 13 - Proof a Shared Leadership Model Can Work
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
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 of labor by working together on every decision, jointly advising students, and conducting each meeting and telephone call together.
September 22 - The Evolution of Accountability: Look Who’s Accountable Now
By: Thomas R. McDaniel, PhD in Academic Leadership
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 kind of state law mandating that public schools—and, in some cases, colleges—demonstrate that they are indeed “accountable.”
May 14 - Promoting Teaching Excellence: What Departments Can Do
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership, Faculty Development
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. Based on what they learned, Christopher Knapper and Sergio Piccinin, two of the researchers who conducted this study, offer the following advice:
July 15 - Academic Leader
By: Wordpress Admin in Subscription Newsletters
Helps deans, chairs, and other academic decision makers provide effective leadership within their colleges or departments, and fulfill their institutions’ primary missions of teaching and scholarship.
