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In Academic Leadership

How to Rid Your Meetings of Groupthink

May 10, 2011 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

With the spate of books and articles that deal with the issue of incivility in higher education, it’s easy to conclude that destructive disharmony is the single biggest problem…

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In Academic Leadership

Recognizing the Importance of Student Engagement

March 4, 2011 Therese Kattner

Institutions are beginning to create jobs that recognize by name the importance of student engagement in and out of the classroom. These positions are based on the idea that…

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In Academic Leadership

Faculty Hiring: Guidelines for Promoting Diversity

February 28, 2011 Bonnie Snyder

There are many reasons for wishing to increase the diversity of your faculty. They include improving recruitment and retention, raising student engagement, increasing innovation, building stronger communities and helping…

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In Academic Leadership

Improve Your Decision-Making Skills

January 25, 2011 Rob Kelly

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…

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In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development

Beware of Faculty Promotion and Tenure Pitfalls

December 14, 2010 Rob Kelly

Controversies surrounding promotion and tenure can lead to legal trouble for departments and institutions. It’s up to academic leaders to guard against possible pitfalls by adopting, disseminating, and implementing…

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In Academic Leadership

Changing Roles, Improved Conditions for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

December 2, 2010 Rob Kelly

As institutions increase their reliance on part-time and non-tenure-track faculty, the issues of equity and instructional quality take on more importance. One way to address these issues is to…

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In Academic Leadership

Dealing with Problem Faculty in Seven Not-So-Easy Steps

November 17, 2010 Mary Bart

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…

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In Academic Leadership

Interviewing Strategies for Hiring New Faculty

October 29, 2010 Mary Clement EdD.

The stakes are high when hiring a new faculty member who can teach, publish, and serve your institution. Since most vitae make the candidates sound wonderful, is there a…

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In Academic Leadership

When Internal Candidates Apply for a Position

October 21, 2010 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

Any process that involves the hiring of a new member of the faculty or staff has to be taken very seriously. Yet when a search involves an incumbent (i.e.,…

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In Academic Leadership

Valuing and Rewarding Academic Advising

October 7, 2010 Kathleen L. OConnell

The literature has made us aware of the importance of a student's connection with a faculty member, advisor, or other significant adult and its impact on academic success and…

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In Academic Leadership

Onboarding vs. Orientation: Getting New Leaders on a Path to Success

September 23, 2010 Rob Kelly

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…

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In Academic Leadership

Eight Things Campus Leaders Can Do to Support Academic Departments

September 3, 2010 Doyle D. Carter EdD

As a department head, I initiate or respond to seemingly endless phone calls, emails, and letters to and from almost every corner of the campus, the community, state agencies,…

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In Academic Leadership

Aphorisms for Academic Affairs

August 24, 2010 J.A. Sheppard PhD

Over the past few years, I have realized that most of the preparation for academic leadership is focused on how to effect institutional change and make a positive difference.…

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In Academic Leadership

Setting the Tone by Listening

August 12, 2010 Barbara McMillin

My responsibilities as associate provost and dean of instruction position me to serve as a sort of academic ombudsman, a person who receives concerns raised by both faculty and…

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In Academic Leadership

Tips for a Successful Strategic Planning Process

August 4, 2010 Mary Bart

When you think about your school’s strategic plan, what words come to mind? Academic exercise? Waste of time? Dust collector? Paper weight?

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In Academic Leadership

Killing Institutional Zombies: Strategies for Effective Leadership

July 23, 2010 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

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…

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In Academic Leadership

How Great Leaders Are Like Great Conductors

July 16, 2010 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

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…

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In Academic Leadership

10 Keys to Effectively Handling Campus Complaints and Complainers

June 28, 2010 Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

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…

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In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development

The Faculty Hiring Process: Steps to Finding the Right Candidate

June 21, 2010 Mary Bart

Finding the right candidate for a faculty position is a critical decision, and selecting the right person can involve a complex search for the perfect combination of qualifications and…

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In Academic Leadership

When Parents Come Calling: Tips for Academic Leaders

May 25, 2010 Michael McDonough

An increasing part of any academic dean’s week is fielding calls (and sometimes unannounced visits) from concerned parents. These so-called “helicopter parents” are well-known to student life professionals. In…

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What’s Driving Collaboration in Higher Ed?

May 7, 2010 Rob Kelly

Most higher education institutions are not organized to encourage, support, and reward collaboration. Yet, collaboration—across disciplines, functional units, institutions, and organizations—is a highly effective way of dealing with complex…

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In Academic Leadership

Leading During Difficult Times: Improving Morale and Enhancing Communication

April 23, 2010 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

One of the goals of any academic leader is the ability to improve morale. But how do you do that in difficult times? How do you make members of…

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In Academic Leadership

Five Tips for Surviving Accreditation: A Tongue-in-Cheek Reflection

March 22, 2010 Thomas R. McDaniel PhD

Many academic leaders are involved in regional accreditations, and I am no exception. The six regional accrediting agencies are becoming increasingly stringent in the application and interpretation of their…

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In Academic Leadership

A Productive Way to Harness Parental Involvement

March 18, 2010 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

As every academic leader can attest, the current generation of college students has been blessed with parents who remain highly invested in every aspect of their children’s education. It…

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In Academic Leadership

A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader – Part 2

March 4, 2010 Robert Greenstreet PhD.

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…

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In Academic Leadership

A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader

March 3, 2010 Robert Greenstreet PhD.

While entering the administrative ranks of academia might seem a formidable task, staying there presents a whole other series of challenges. The average length of stay for a dean,…

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In Academic Leadership

Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership

January 26, 2010 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

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…

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In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development

Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls

January 20, 2010 Mary Bart

Hiring, promotion, and tenure activities are full of risk and potential landmines. Poor hiring decisions are not only costly, but the hiring process itself opens the institution up to…

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In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development

Are Senior Faculty Members Still Effective Teachers?

January 15, 2010 Maryellen Weimer, PhD

Now that I’m one of those “senior” faculty, I hear a lot of digs about faculty who need to retire … deadwood, still standing but hopefully about to topple.…

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In Academic Leadership

Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance

December 10, 2009 Michael Harris PhD and Roxanne Cullen PhD

Discussion of teaching and learning as an academic, scholarly endeavor has become an acceptable conversation on college campuses. A shift is beginning to take place whereby the scholarship of…

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In Academic Leadership

Stress Management Strategies for Academic Leaders and Faculty

November 30, 2009 Mary Bart

During the past year or so the poor economy has forced everyone to do more with less. Now it’s almost December and we’re in the thick of the end-of-semester…

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In Academic Leadership

How to Survive the Next Fad in Academic Leadership

November 11, 2009 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

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…

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In Academic Leadership

Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders

November 4, 2009 Mary Bart

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.

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In Academic Leadership

Five Ways to Ease the Transition for a New Chair

October 26, 2009 Rob Kelly

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.

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In Academic Leadership

Three Ways to Reduce Tenure Review Workload

October 16, 2009 Jeffrey Buller PhD.

Administrators can help inspire much-needed reform of the tenure and promotion processes at their institutions if they begin discussions of reducing the workload of both candidates and committees in…

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In Academic Leadership

Proof a Shared Leadership Model Can Work

October 13, 2009 Rob Kelly

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…

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In Academic Leadership

Six Tips for Balancing the Chair’s Role as Teacher, Scholar, and Administrator

September 29, 2009 K. Denise Bane PhD.

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…

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In Academic Leadership

The Evolution of Accountability: Look Who's Accountable Now

September 22, 2009 Thomas R. McDaniel PhD

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…

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In Academic Leadership

Tips for Implementing Your Strategic Plan

September 8, 2009 Rob Kelly

When John Pyle was vice president at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, one of his goals was to focus the campus’s energy on implementing the operational plan. “There was…

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In Academic Leadership

The Department Chair’s Role in Dealing with Disruptive Students

August 4, 2009 Rob Kelly

Most professors will have to deal with classroom disruptions at some point, from the relatively minor—students who show up for class late or who talk excessively—to the more serious—disrespectful,…

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