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Faculty Development

Coaching: Developing Your Faculty One Conversation at a Time

Coaching is a relationship frequently leveraged in the business sector but is not a well-established paradigm in higher education. Academics, however, can benefit just as much from a coaching approach, and the field is beginning to gain traction for training academic leaders (Robison & Gray, 2017). This article defines coaching,

Carla B. Swearingen, PhD January 27, 2025 No Comments

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Retention

One Change That Increases Student Persistence, Retention, and Satisfaction

The president and the provost were talking about their biggest challenge: retention. Between students’ freshman and sophomore years, the college was losing almost 40 percent of its students. For many students, the causes were well documented: time and money. The college’s “average student” was no longer an eighteen-year-old white male

Thomas Tobin, PhD January 20, 2025 No Comments