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Leadership

Collective Terms Perpetuate Stereotypes and Biases: Change Begins with Leadership

It was a sweltering July morning when an email from one of my librarians arrived in my inbox, its subject line proclaiming, “THE LIBRARIANS ARE HOT!” I had recently taken over management of library faculty and staff, and this was my first crisis. The library’s air conditioning unit had failed,

Richard L. Riccardi, ScD September 9, 2024 No Comments

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Mission and Philosophy

The Departmental Gestalt: Fostering Student Major Identity and Program Pride

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on September 4, 2020 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Like many others in the trenches of academia, we’ve chaired, taught, and advised in a small, understaffed, underfunded, and oversubscribed program. While other understaffed and oversubscribed departments limped along, ours notably thrived, resulting in strong

Trisha K. Prunty and Diana L. D. Jacobs August 26, 2024 No Comments