Posts Tagged ‘academic leadership qualities’
January 25 - Improve Your Decision-Making Skills
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
As an academic leader, each decision you make has the potential to have a lasting impact within your unit and beyond. Competing viewpoints, priorities and strong personalities contribute to the difficulty many leaders have with making decisions.
July 23 - Killing Institutional Zombies: Strategies for Effective Leadership
By: Jeffrey Buller, PhD. in Academic Leadership
In popular fiction, zombies are often described as “the undead,” once lifeless bodies that have been reanimated through supernatural forces. Since they are essentially walking corpses, fictional zombies are almost impossible to “kill,” and just when you think that all the danger has passed, they suddenly rear up again in their never-ending search to consume your brain. Unfortunately, higher education has its share of zombies, too. These are the rumors, doubts, or signs of mistrust that arise periodically and prove impervious to logic or argument.
July 16 - How Great Leaders Are Like Great Conductors
By: Jeffrey Buller, PhD. in Academic Leadership
In the now famous presentation at the 2008 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Long Beach, California, Benjamin Zander, the music director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, spoke of the insights he gained into what makes a conductor great. Zander noted that only after 20 years at the podium did he realize that the conductor is the only person in the orchestra who “doesn’t make a sound. He depends for his power on his ability to make other people powerful.” (Zander, 2009)
June 28 - 10 Keys to Effectively Handling Campus Complaints and Complainers
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Academic Leadership
As the new department chair, you are pleased when a graduate student comes to you to discuss her career. That pleasure fades, however, when you find that the conversation is not about choosing between job offers, but about a consensual affair she says she has been having with a faculty member up for tenure. The student says she had been trying to end the affair, but the faculty member has resisted, even threatening to delay her degree. Although she says she has talked to every member of her committee as well as the student advocate, she refuses to file a formal complaint or let her name be used for fear it will damage her career. However, she suggests to you that the faculty member does not deserve tenure.
June 23 - Helping Faculty to be Engaged and Productive
By: Rob Kelly in Faculty Development
Academic leaders can have a tremendous effect on faculty satisfaction and productivity. Part of the responsibility of being an academic leader is to provide appropriate guidelines and support to foster faculty productivity throughout their careers, says Susan Robison, a psychology professor at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. In an interview with Academic Leader, she offered the following advice on how to support faculty:
March 4 - A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader – Part 2
By: Robert Greenstreet, PhD. in Academic Leadership
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 post.
6. Talk straight: Someone once said: “Sincerity is the key to good leadership — if you can fake that, you’re in.”
February 19 - Academic Leadership Qualities for Meeting Today’s Higher Education Challenges
By: Mary Bart in Academic Leadership, Free Reports
It’s been said that no one dreams of someday becoming an academic administrator. It’s a tough job that’s only gotten more challenging as budgets shrink, public scrutiny rises, and responsibilities continue to grow. But what does it really take to be an effective leader?
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.
September 29 - Six Tips for Balancing the Chair’s Role as Teacher, Scholar, and Administrator
By: K. Denise Bane, PhD. in Academic Leadership
To say that my first year as division chair was a “learning experience” filled with “teaching moments” is an understatement. I had no idea what I was getting myself into! In addition to the normal duties of chair, my division was moving to a new building, the college was working on its accreditation self-study, we began collective bargaining, we added two new members to the division, we conducted a search for an additional new member, and I taught a fully online course for the first time.
June 25 - Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator
By: Mary Bart in Academic Leadership, Free Reports
All too often new administrators are left to fend for themselves when it comes to discovering and developing the skills they need to succeed in their new position. This report will help new administrators navigate the potential minefields and find their voice when it comes to leading effectively.
