…on reflection and making academic connections to meet specific learning objectives. Kolb’s experiential learning theory, which serves as a common foundation for service-learning pedagogy, further emphasizes the importance of reflection…
…useful insights into managing the health of academic departments. She offers the following advice to department chairs: Set strategic goals. When faculty members become chairs because it’s their turn, they…
…University and senior partner of ATLAS, a firm providing academic leadership training and assessment worldwide. His latest book, Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Academic Leaders, is…
…to celebrate, ask what others are grateful for and celebrate gratitude! 5. It’s okay to take a timeout. During tough times, the realities of academic and administrative life can weigh…
Remember the “good ol’ days?” How often did you walk down a hallway of your academic unit and pass a student, faculty or staff member, or administrator and have a…
…for your students, nobody can improve your teaching for you. It’s something done by you, for you (and for your students). Formative feedback guarantees the integrity of the improvement process—Teachers…
…my integrity in the classroom while maintaining my sanity? First, I will take a course release rather than a course overload as compensation for my work as chair. More money…
…welcome legislative initiatives is the Diploma and Accreditation Integrity Protection Act of 2009 (HR 4535), currently in subcommittee. It’s designed to: legally define what it means to be a degree-granting…
