Posts Tagged ‘leadership development’
April 12 - Developing Faculty Leadership Skills
By: Rob Kelly in Faculty Development
Leadership is not restricted to those in formal leadership positions. Rather, all faculty members in one way or another fill leadership roles and may eventually become formal leaders. Therefore, it’s important for them to develop their leadership abilities.
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 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.
June 8 - Academic Leadership Development: Finding Correlations Between Teaching and Leading
By: Michael Harris, PhD, and Roxanne Cullen, PhD in Academic Leadership
The current conditions for leadership development in academe are less than optimal. More often than not, academic leaders come from faculty ranks having been asked to assume positions as department heads/chairs or even deans having had no previous administrative experience. The individual has opportunities for development, but not on any long-term or ongoing basis.
