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Skills and Development

Leadership Skills for New Academic Administrators

As new academic administrators begin and advance in their academic careers, they will need new skills and strategies for leading complex initiatives, programs, and tasks. New academic administrators will be expected to guide their higher education institutions through change and ensure continued focus on related vision, mission, and goals. They

Sara Zeigler, PhD, and Russell Carpenter, PhD September 8, 2025 No Comments

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Leadership

Managing by Meeting

Academics manage by meetings. Half of the day in the life of a department chair is spent in formal meetings (average length: 50 minutes), and another 22 percent in informal meetings. Thus, department chairs find themselves in meetings 70 percent of their day. For deans, the number of meetings exponentially

Walter H. Gmelch, PhD September 1, 2025 No Comments