Posts Tagged ‘faculty collegiality’
February 1 - “Learningful” Conversations: The Value of Exchanges with Colleagues
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
I’ve been reading pedagogical literature for a long time and so I don’t often come upon a topic I haven’t seen before. But this week I came across one — it was an article on conversation in an international faculty development journal.
November 17 - Dealing with Problem Faculty in Seven Not-So-Easy Steps
By: Mary Bart in Academic Leadership
Much attention has been given to the “difficult” or “disruptive” student, and rightly so. However, colleges and universities aren’t just institutions of learning, they’re workplaces as well. And like any workplace, there are colleagues who are a joy to work with, and there are colleagues who can poison an entire department.
September 10 - Seven Steps for Dealing with Problem Faculty
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Whether you’re dealing with bullies, poor performers, malcontents or general troublemakers, problem faculty members can erode teamwork and collegiality while fostering a general atmosphere of incivility on campus. This seminar will help you bring wayward professionals under control.
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.
April 27 - Basic Guidelines for Handling Complaints
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
If you’re in a position of authority on campus, you know that complaining sometimes seems like an institutional pastime. Virtually everyone, it appears, is complaining–about virtually everything, virtually all the time. This seminar provides a “road map” for dealing with complaints, conflict and difficult people.
December 16 - Tips for Building a Personal Learning Network on Campus and Online
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development
Colleagues can play such an important role in our development as teachers, yet most of the time we don’t make use of them in ways that really help us grow pedagogically. We spend time with faculty who inhabit offices near ours sharing pedagogical pleasantries, noting our successes and those of our students, or complaining about the lack of institutional support for teaching or the poor performance of this year’s entering class.
April 21 - Faculty Collegiality: Six Tips for Getting Along with Disagreeable Colleagues
By: Jacqueline Waggoner, Ed.D. in Teaching Careers
Have you ever left a meeting in which you were trying to work with some colleagues on aligning the curriculum for a course that several of you teach, and decided that the best (printable) word to describe a colleague was “difficult?”
April 15 - Faculty Collegiality: Q&A with Robert Cipriano
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership, Faculty Evaluation
Collegiality—the ability of faculty members to get along with each other and contribute to the collective good—is a key component of success within the department and the higher education institution as a whole. It is largely up to the department chair to promote collegiality, but everyone plays a part. In an email interview, Robert Cipriano,
October 27 - Creating Faculty Collegiality: Strategies for Department Chairs
By: Mary Bart in Academic Leadership, Faculty Development, Learning Communities
Incivility in higher education has flourished in recent years, fueled by a convergence of factors ranging from the infiltration of a more corporate culture and a system that rewards individual accomplishments above collaboration to decreased state funding coupled with increased workloads and expectations. For department chairs, leading teams of educators during such a difficult time can be wrought with unexpected challenges and frustrations.
