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Accreditation
Administration
- “Spider-Man Principle” and the “Categorical Imperative”: How to Address the Problem of “Managing Through”
- 5 Qualities of Successful Change Efforts
- A Few Thoughts for the New Chief Academic Officer
- A Matter of Good Form
- Accountability in its Many Forms
- Accreditation from a Positive Leadership Perspective
- Adding Graduate Degrees and a Graduate School at a Traditional Bachelor Degree Granting Institution
- An Intellectual Property Policy for Online Education
- Becoming a Self-Aware Leader
- Being Intentionally Collaborative: Making the First Move
- Building Alliances and Networks of Support in Higher Education: A New Era in Higher Education
- Building Trust among Employees: Secrets to Success
- Campus Civility Project: Emotionally Intelligent Conversations
- Can a Capstone Course Try to Accomplish Too Much?
- Can Innovation Be Taught?
- Capacity-building through International Programs
- Checklists As an Academic Leadership Tool
- Collective Terms Perpetuate Stereotypes and Biases: Change Begins with Leadership
- Considerations for Meaningful and Credible Strategic Planning
- Creating ‘Big Data’ Teams
- Creating a Strategic Plan for Global Engagement: Ideas for Academic Leaders
- Creating Dialogue in the Interest of Social Justice on Campus
- Current Challenges in Higher Education Leadership
- Department Chairs: Trends and Issues Over Time
- Developing Critical Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Academic Leaders
- Educating Students: The Moral Judgment Challenge for Higher Education
- Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Mental Health Effects of Noncollegial Colleagues
- Establishing Effective Relationships Between Faculty and Instructional Designers
- Establishing, Maximizing, and Refining Your Advisory Board
- Even if It’s Not Broken, It Can Still Be Improved: Reorganizing for Effective Alignment
- Filling an Empty Toolbox
- Follow-up Budget Questions for New Chairs: Flexibility, Carry Over, and Incentives
- Follow-up Budget Questions for New Chairs: Flexibility, Carry Over, and Incentives, Part II
- Four Steps to Building Institutional Support for Blended Learning
- Four Strategies to Improve Faculty Buy-In for Online Education
- Friendship as a Teaching Strategy for Graduate Students
- Fundraising: Lead with Gift Officers in Mind
- Getting a Head Start: Early Budget Questions for Beginners
- Getting Organized
- Higher Education: Exporting Middle-Class Dreams
- How Faculty Teaching Load, Employment Status Affect Student Performance
- How Much Does Instruction in Your Program Cost?
- How to Avoid Common Assessment-Reporting Pitfalls
- How to Be More Strategic with Online Program Planning
- How to Encourage Faculty to Adopt Open Educational Resources
- How to Lead Assessment in Your Unit
- How to Select a Department Chair
- How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
- Inspiring Change with Your Strategic Plan
- Invest in Your Strategic Meetings by Engaging an Outside Facilitator
- Leadership Behaviors Improving the Likelihood of Academic Affairs Success
- Leading throughout the Organizational Life Cycle
- Lesson Learned—Lesson Shared: Give It a Dignified 24 Hours
- Lessons Learned from the Chinese System of Higher Education
- Listening to (and Appreciating) the Voices on the Front Lines
- Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion a Mission, Not Just an Initiative
- Making Progress in Challenging Fiscal Times
- Mercenary U
- Mindful Academic Leadership
- MOOCs and the Law: Five Key Questions
- Moving Beyond Majors
- Myths and Beliefs That Limit Effectiveness of Higher Education
- New Academic Programs in Lean Financial Times: Process Revisited and Lessons Learned
- On a Shoestring
- On Mixed Marriages: Building Community Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
- Online Education Data: What Are You Measuring, and How Are You Using It?
- Petty Principles: A Challenge to Higher Education Leaders in the Wake of a Social Injustice Crisis
- Planning Department Staffing to Meet Academic Needs
- Practical Higher Education: Fostering Sustainable Student Workforce Skills beyond the Academy
- Promoting an Innovative Culture within a Department
- Putting Assessment in Its Place
- Reconceptualizing the Peer Review Process for Online Courses
- Responding to the Market
- Restructuring Academic Programs into Larger Divisions
- Seven Important Factors in Program Assessment
- Seven Key Questions for Improving Communication with Your Dean
- Seven Strategies for Embracing the Emotional Labor of Teaching
- Seven Strategies to Grow Online Courses and Programs
- Seven Ways to Combat Attrition in Online Courses
- Should You Expand Your Online Initiative? Key Considerations for Institutions
- Spotlight on Campus Speech: Five Things to Consider When Addressing Student Protests
- STEM Fatigue
- STEM Fatigue
- Take a Vacation—Please!
- The Advantages of an Annual Review of Departmental Data
- The Art of Framing in Academic Settings (Part 1)
- The Art of Framing in Academic Settings (Part 2)
- The Case for Chairs Working Beyond Their Departments
- The Case of the Unevaluated Online Courses*
- The Challenge of Leading Change: Some Remedies for Resistance (Part 1)
- The Challenge of Leading Change: Some Remedies for Resistance (Part 2)
- The Department Chair as the Engine of Diversity Transformation
- The Departmental Gestalt: Fostering Student Major Identity and Program Pride
- The Value of Cross-Discipline Networking
- Three Strategies to Improve Your Health in the New Year
- To MOOC or Not to MOOC? That Is Just One of the Questions!
- Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage Faculty and Facilitate Change
- Vision Statements as Empowerment Tools
- Weight Management for Universities: Evaluating Academic Bloat
- When Faculty Overreact to Course Ratings
- When Good Professors Turn into Bad Deans
- When the End Is in Sight
- Why All Evaluations Are Not Alike
- Why and How We Should Choose Civility in Academic Workplaces
- Why Getting It Done Is Often Better Than Getting It Perfect
- Work-Life Balance: Managing Your Koyaanisqatsi
Best Practices
- 5 Tips on Closing Programs
- Academic Administrative Teams: Forming, Sustaining, and Changing
- Auditing Diversity: Academic Leadership’s Instrumental Role
- Becoming a Mindful Leader
- Becoming Stewards: Transforming New Leaders through Reflective Practice
- Being a Young Chair: Advice I Wish I’d Received
- Can Innovation Be Taught?
- Checklists: An Academic Leadership Tool
- Collective Terms Perpetuate Stereotypes and Biases: Change Begins with Leadership
- Creating a Strong Chair-Dean Partnership: What Chairs Can Do from Their End (Part 1)
- Creating a Strong Chair-Dean Partnership: What Chairs Can Do from Their End (Part 2)
- Dear Reluctant Administrator: You’ve Got This
- Effective Strategies for Increasing Undergraduate Student Enrollment
- Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Culture for Student Success
- Establishing and Supporting a Faculty Mentoring Program
- Evaluating Your Academic Administration Career Path Strategy
- Exodus or Migration? Faculty Are Leaving
- Five Emerging Trends for Academic Leaders
- Five Tips for Making Tenure
- Five Ways to Fail as an Academic Leader
- High Risk, High Reward: The Life of the Entrepreneurial Administrator
- How to Manage Your Email Inbox
- How to Respond to Toxic Leadership: Six Practical Approaches
- Interim Administrative Appointments in Higher Education: Considerations for Potential Applicants
- Leadership That Leads to Learning
- Managing Conflict: Please Don’t Leave
- Mind Your Ps and Qs: A Guide for New Administrators
- My Return to Practice and Considerations for the Academy
- Providing Leadership and Support to Professionally Develop Adjunct Faculty
- Pure Heart Leadership
- Reflections of a Retired Dean
- Returning to Campus: How Leaders Can Address Trauma
- Seven Big Ideas for Academic Leaders: How You Lead Matters!
- Seven Key Questions for Improving Communication with Your Dean
- Six Lessons from the Pandemic
- Stepping Out of Silos: Building Best Practices for Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness
- Student Retention: An International Perspective
- Tellin’ Ain’t Leadin’
- Tending to Your Mental Health while Leading through a Crisis
- Throw the BUMs out: Higher Education Acronyms Impede Communication
- Triangulating for a New Approach to Student Success
- Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
- When Full-Time Faculty and Adjuncts Collide: Ideas to Maintain Departmental Peace
- Where Advocacy and Sound Leadership Must Part Company
Campus Safety
- Clemson Provides Textbook Case of Performance-Based Fire Protection at New Football Practice Facility
- Guns on College Campuses – Not A Good Idea!
- The Administrative Role in Managing Difficult Students: A Look at the Literature
- The Traumatic Impact of Interpersonal Crime on the Campus Sexual Assault Victim/Survivor
- Universities Prepare for Crisis Communication
- UW–Madison Campus Climate Survey: 5 Key Results Charted
Career Development
- Creating Space, Relieving Stress, and Making the Job More Enticing
- Five Tips for Making Tenure
- Six Ways to Ensure a Smooth Chair Transition
- Succession Planning for Academic Leaders
- Surviving a Leadership Transition
- The ‘Quiet’ Dean: Rethinking the ‘Extrovert Ideal’ of Leadership
- The Department Chair: A Retrospective Perspective
- When Academic Leadership Comes with Baggage
Collegiality
- 7 Ways a Chair Can Promote Collegiality
- Civility on Campus: A Controversy Over Being Nice
- Collaboration at the Heart of Successful Change Initiatives
- Collegiality Incentivized
- Collegiality: The Cornerstone of a University (and a Profession)
- Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Mental Health Effects of Noncollegial Colleagues
- Leveraging the Library as a Strategic Academic Partner
- Peacemaking 101
- Positive Effects of Conflict
- Seven Steps for Dealing with Problem Faculty
- The Academic Leader’s Role in Promoting Inclusive Excellence
- When Colleagues Are Brats
Competency Based Education
Curriculum
- Building a Pathway to Cultural Competence Through Academic Service Learning
- Core Curriculum Improves Academic Rigor, Identity, and Retention
- Differentiating Instruction in an Online Classroom
- Finding Your Unicorns: Creating a Data-Informed Culture
- Four Strategies to Improve Faculty Buy-In for Online Education
- Moving from Courses to a Curriculum
- The (Surprising) Benefits of e-Textbooks: A Study
- Understanding and Managing Perceptions of Academic Rigor
- Using Formal Program Review for Continuous Improvement
Distance Education Administration
- An Intellectual Property Policy for Online Education
- Four Steps to Building Institutional Support for Blended Learning
- How Faculty Teaching Load, Employment Status Affect Student Performance
- How to Be More Strategic with Online Program Planning
- MOOCs and the Law: Five Key Questions
- Seven Ways to Combat Attrition in Online Courses
- Should You Expand Your Online Initiative? Key Considerations for Institutions
- To MOOC or Not to MOOC? That Is Just One of the Questions!
Diversity
- Approaches to Building and Sustaining a Diverse Adjunct Workforce
- Creating Dialogue in the Interest of Social Justice on Campus
- Developing Critical Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Academic Leaders
- Leading Your Academic Department Toward Inclusion: How to Ensure Faculty are LGBTQ+ Competent
- Overcoming the Pipeline Myth: Department Chairs as Transformative Diversity Leaders
- Petty Principles for Women in Higher Education: Realistic and Practical Advice for Success in Higher Education Leadership
- Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Students in a Post-quarantine Academic Year
- Teaching and Learning Centers as Catalysts for Faculty Diversity Development
- UW–Madison Campus Climate Survey: 5 Key Results Charted
- What Encourages Faculty to Include Diversity Materials in Their Courses?
Faculty Development
- A Centralized Approach to Supporting Experiential Learning
- Best Practices for Conducting a Faculty Search
- Chaos and Confusion: Reducing Instructional Uncertainty in Times of Crisis
- Conquering the Fear of Authenticity
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 4: Mentorship Dos and Don’ts
- Does Online Faculty Development Really Matter?
- Effective Transitioning to College Teaching: Part 1
- Effective Transitioning to College Teaching: Part 2
- Establishing a Quality Faculty Mentoring Program
- Establishing and Supporting a Faculty Mentoring Program
- Fostering Strategic Autonomy
- How to Evaluate Your Faculty Development Services
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- Informal Faculty Leadership: Spreading Innovative Teaching
- Leading Your Academic Department Toward Inclusion: How to Ensure Faculty are LGBTQ+ Competent
- Making Faculty Development an Institutional Value and a Professional Practice
- Overcoming the Challenges to Effective Faculty Development
- Promoting Faculty Development on a Tight Budget
- Promoting Work-Life Satisfaction
- Rejuvenating Experiences
- Speed Mentoring
- Starting a Pedagogy Book Club
- Surviving a Leadership Transition
- Target Mentoring: A Tailored Mentoring Program for Faculty
- Teaching and Learning Centers as Catalysts for Faculty Diversity Development
- The Failing Student and the Adjunct Professor
- The Role of Academic Leaders as Instructional Supervisors
- Three Critical Time-Management Tips for Higher Education Professionals
- Transitioning from Faculty to Chair
- Using Academic Retreats to Enhance Academic Affairs Performance
- Well-Being and Well-Thinking: How to Stay Healthy in Academia
Faculty Evaluation
- After Promotion and Tenure: Maintaining Faculty’s Upward Trajectory
- Clock Time Versus Piece Work in Higher Education
- Conversations about Course Ratings: Encouraging Faculty to Make Changes
- Developing a New Faculty-Evaluation System
- Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices
- Pitfalls of Using Student Comments in the Evaluation of Faculty
- Rewarding Excellent Support for Non-tenure-track Faculty, Part I
- Rewarding Excellent Support for Non-tenure-track Faculty, Part II
Human Resources
- 4 Tips for Partnering with Student Affairs Professionals
- 7 Ways a Chair Can Promote Collegiality
- A Centralized Approach to Supporting Experiential Learning
- After Promotion and Tenure: Maintaining Faculty’s Upward Trajectory
- Approaches to Building and Sustaining a Diverse Adjunct Workforce
- Best Practices for Conducting a Faculty Search
- Chaos and Confusion: Reducing Instructional Uncertainty in Times of Crisis
- Civility on Campus: A Controversy Over Being Nice
- Clock Time Versus Piece Work in Higher Education
- Collaboration at the Heart of Successful Change Initiatives
- Collegiality Incentivized
- Collegiality: The Cornerstone of a University (and a Profession)
- Conquering the Fear of Authenticity
- Conversations about Course Ratings: Encouraging Faculty to Make Changes
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 4: Mentorship Dos and Don’ts
- Creating Dialogue in the Interest of Social Justice on Campus
- Creating Space, Relieving Stress, and Making the Job More Enticing
- Developing a New Faculty-Evaluation System
- Developing Critical Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Academic Leaders
- Does Online Faculty Development Really Matter?
- Effective Transitioning to College Teaching: Part 1
- Effective Transitioning to College Teaching: Part 2
- Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Mental Health Effects of Noncollegial Colleagues
- Establishing a Quality Faculty Mentoring Program
- Establishing and Supporting a Faculty Mentoring Program
- Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices
- Five Tips for Making Tenure
- Fostering Strategic Autonomy
- How to Create a Values-Driven Department
- How to Evaluate Your Faculty Development Services
- How to Talk Yourself out of a Job
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- Informal Faculty Leadership: Spreading Innovative Teaching
- Leading Your Academic Department Toward Inclusion: How to Ensure Faculty are LGBTQ+ Competent
- Leveraging the Library as a Strategic Academic Partner
- Listening: The Greatest Compliment
- Making Faculty Development an Institutional Value and a Professional Practice
- Overcoming the Challenges to Effective Faculty Development
- Overcoming the Pipeline Myth: Department Chairs as Transformative Diversity Leaders
- Peacemaking 101
- Petty Principles for Women in Higher Education: Realistic and Practical Advice for Success in Higher Education Leadership
- Pitfalls of Using Student Comments in the Evaluation of Faculty
- Positive Effects of Conflict
- Preparing for and Managing Scandals
- Promoting Faculty Development on a Tight Budget
- Promoting Work-Life Satisfaction
- Rejuvenating Experiences
- Rewarding Excellent Support for Non-tenure-track Faculty, Part I
- Rewarding Excellent Support for Non-tenure-track Faculty, Part II
- Seven Steps for Dealing with Problem Faculty
- Six Ways to Ensure a Smooth Chair Transition
- Speed Mentoring
- Starting a Pedagogy Book Club
- Succession Planning for Academic Leaders
- Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Students in a Post-quarantine Academic Year
- Surviving a Leadership Transition
- Surviving a Leadership Transition
- Target Mentoring: A Tailored Mentoring Program for Faculty
- Teaching and Learning Centers as Catalysts for Faculty Diversity Development
- The ‘Quiet’ Dean: Rethinking the ‘Extrovert Ideal’ of Leadership
- The Academic Leader’s Role in Promoting Inclusive Excellence
- The Department Chair: A Retrospective Perspective
- The Failing Student and the Adjunct Professor
- The Role of Academic Leaders as Instructional Supervisors
- Thoughtful Staff Management in Five Steps
- Three Critical Time-Management Tips for Higher Education Professionals
- Transitioning from Faculty to Chair
- Using Academic Retreats to Enhance Academic Affairs Performance
- UW–Madison Campus Climate Survey: 5 Key Results Charted
- Well-Being and Well-Thinking: How to Stay Healthy in Academia
- What Encourages Faculty to Include Diversity Materials in Their Courses?
- When Academic Leadership Comes with Baggage
- When Colleagues Are Brats
Leadership
- “But I Hate Asking for Money”: Development Tips for Academic Administrators
- 10 Things I Never Knew about Being an Academic Chair
- 14 Academic Leadership Myths
- 4 Principles to Manage a Variety of Administrative Issues
- Academic Administrative Teams: Forming, Sustaining, and Changing
- Academic Leader as Communicator-in-Chief
- Academic Leaders as Introverts and Extroverts
- Academic Leaders as Introverts and Extroverts
- Academic Leadership at Multicampus Institutions
- Aphorisms for Academic Affairs
- Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development, Part 2: The Holton Model
- Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development: Part 1, The Kirkpatrick Model
- Avoiding Groupthink
- Becoming a Mindful Leader
- Becoming Stewards: Transforming New Leaders through Reflective Practice
- Being a Young Chair: Advice I Wish I’d Received
- Best Practices in Preparing Academic Leaders
- Bottom-Line Leadership
- Bridging the Digital Divide
- Can Innovation Be Taught?
- Change for the Sake of Change
- Collective Terms Perpetuate Stereotypes and Biases: Change Begins with Leadership
- Congratulations—You Are a Leader! Now What?
- Considerations for Successfully “Managing Up”
- Creating a Strong Chair-Dean Partnership: What Chairs Can Do from Their End (Part 1)
- Creating a Strong Chair-Dean Partnership: What Chairs Can Do from Their End (Part 2)
- Deans’ Interpersonal/Negotiating Skills
- Dear Reluctant Administrator: You’ve Got This
- Developing a Leadership Philosophy
- Developing Formal and Informal Faculty Leaders
- Evaluating Your Academic Administration Career Path Strategy
- Failing Gracefully
- Financial Leadership from a Medieval Point of View
- Five Emerging Trends for Academic Leaders
- Five Newbie Mistakes Made by Academic Leaders
- Five Recommendations to Advance Careers in Enrollment and Retention Management
- Five Ways to Fail as an Academic Leader
- Hallmarks of Excellence in Online Leadership
- High Risk, High Reward: The Life of the Entrepreneurial Administrator
- How an Academic Leader Changes a Lightbulb
- How to Build Emotional Intelligence in Emerging Leaders
- How to Create a Successful TA Program in 5 Steps
- How to Have a Difficult Conversation: 7 Rules
- How to Respond to Toxic Leadership: Six Practical Approaches
- Leadership That Leads to Learning
- Leading a Diversity Culture Shift: The Pivotal Role of Academic Leadership
- Leading Change Amid Opposition
- Leading throughout the Organizational Life Cycle
- Lessons from an Interim K–12 Principal
- Locating the (Leadership) Land Mines
- Locating the Academic Leadership Land Mines
- Maintaining a State of Readiness for Sudden Transition to Deanship
- Making Soup from Rain: My Year as Provost
- Managing Conflict: Please Don’t Leave
- Managing Student Complaints
- Mind Your Ps and Qs: A Guide for New Administrators
- More Tools for the New Dean’s Toolbox
- My Last Commencement Speech
- My Return to Practice and Considerations for the Academy
- Navigating Campus Minefields through Mindful Leadership
- Nibbled to Death by Ducks
- Petty Principles for Leaders in Higher Education
- Petty Principles for Women in Higher Education: Realistic and Practical Advice for Success in Higher Education Leadership
- Petty Principles: A Toolbox for Leaders in Higher Education
- Planning Priorities for Leaving the Chair Position: Part 1
- Planning Priorities for Leaving the Chair Position: Part 2
- Preparing Academic Leaders Through Simulation and Role-Play
- Preparing Future Academic Leaders in Graduate School
- Priceless Gift Exchanges between Faculty and Students
- Proven Tools for Academic Leaders to Successfully Lead Change
- Pure Heart Leadership
- Reading the Boss’ Mind: When Less Really Is Less
- Reflections of a Retired Dean
- Reflections on “Becoming” a Department Chair
- Rethinking Councils of Chairs
- Returning to Campus: How Leaders Can Address Trauma
- Seven Big Ideas for Academic Leaders: How You Lead Matters!
- Seven Key Questions for Improving Communication with Your Dean
- Six Lessons from the Pandemic
- Six Questions to Ask to Successfully Establish a Program
- Speaking Truth to Power
- Stepping Out of Silos: Building Best Practices for Academic Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness
- Strategies for Developing and Maintaining High-performing Teams
- Succession Planning: Developing Future Leaders from Within
- Take a Vacation – Please! Maintaining Work-Life Balance
- Tellin’ Ain’t Leadin’
- Ten Ways to Find Inspiration for the Coming Year
- Tending to Your Mental Health while Leading through a Crisis
- The ‘Quiet’ Dean: Rethinking the ‘Extrovert Ideal’ of Leadership
- The 5 Most Helpful Experiences for Moving from Faculty to Department Chair
- The Community Role and Challenges of a College Leader
- The Cost of Leadership
- The Perception Problem
- The Role of Emotions in Developing Trust: Why Charisma Is Not Enough
- The Two (Organizational) Cultures of the University
- The Wrong Way to Talk about Higher Ed
- Three Things You Need as a New Dean
- Transition to Administration: From Autonomy to Hierarchy
- Transitioning from Faculty to Chair
- Translucent Academic Leadership in 3 Steps
- Using Appreciative Inquiry to Facilitate Positive Change
- Using Stress to Create Change, Just as Nature Intended
- What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Faculty Buy In’
- When Academic Leaders Anger Their Stakeholders
- Where Advocacy and Sound Leadership Must Part Company
- Zen and the Art of Higher Education Administration
Leadership
- “But I Hate Asking for Money”: Development Tips for Academic Administrators
- 10 Things I Never Knew about Being an Academic Chair
- 14 Academic Leadership Myths
- 4 Principles to Manage a Variety of Administrative Issues
- Academic Leader as Communicator-in-Chief
- Academic Leaders as Introverts and Extroverts
- Academic Leaders as Introverts and Extroverts
- Academic Leadership at Multicampus Institutions
- Aphorisms for Academic Affairs
- Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development, Part 2: The Holton Model
- Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development: Part 1, The Kirkpatrick Model
- Avoiding Groupthink
- Best Practices in Preparing Academic Leaders
- Bottom-Line Leadership
- Bridging the Digital Divide
- Change for the Sake of Change
- Congratulations—You Are a Leader! Now What?
- Considerations for Successfully “Managing Up”
- Deans’ Interpersonal/Negotiating Skills
- Developing a Leadership Philosophy
- Developing Formal and Informal Faculty Leaders
- Failing Gracefully
- Financial Leadership from a Medieval Point of View
- Five Newbie Mistakes Made by Academic Leaders
- Five Recommendations to Advance Careers in Enrollment and Retention Management
- Hallmarks of Excellence in Online Leadership
- How an Academic Leader Changes a Lightbulb
- How to Build Emotional Intelligence in Emerging Leaders
- How to Create a Successful TA Program in 5 Steps
- How to Have a Difficult Conversation: 7 Rules
- Leading a Diversity Culture Shift: The Pivotal Role of Academic Leadership
- Leading Change Amid Opposition
- Leading throughout the Organizational Life Cycle
- Lessons from an Interim K–12 Principal
- Locating the (Leadership) Land Mines
- Locating the Academic Leadership Land Mines
- Maintaining a State of Readiness for Sudden Transition to Deanship
- Making Soup from Rain: My Year as Provost
- Managing Student Complaints
- More Tools for the New Dean’s Toolbox
- My Last Commencement Speech
- Navigating Campus Minefields through Mindful Leadership
- Nibbled to Death by Ducks
- Petty Principles for Leaders in Higher Education
- Petty Principles for Women in Higher Education: Realistic and Practical Advice for Success in Higher Education Leadership
- Petty Principles: A Toolbox for Leaders in Higher Education
- Planning Priorities for Leaving the Chair Position: Part 1
- Planning Priorities for Leaving the Chair Position: Part 2
- Preparing Academic Leaders Through Simulation and Role-Play
- Preparing Future Academic Leaders in Graduate School
- Priceless Gift Exchanges between Faculty and Students
- Proven Tools for Academic Leaders to Successfully Lead Change
- Reading the Boss’ Mind: When Less Really Is Less
- Reflections on “Becoming” a Department Chair
- Rethinking Councils of Chairs
- Six Questions to Ask to Successfully Establish a Program
- Speaking Truth to Power
- Strategies for Developing and Maintaining High-performing Teams
- Succession Planning: Developing Future Leaders from Within
- Take a Vacation – Please! Maintaining Work-Life Balance
- Ten Ways to Find Inspiration for the Coming Year
- The ‘Quiet’ Dean: Rethinking the ‘Extrovert Ideal’ of Leadership
- The 5 Most Helpful Experiences for Moving from Faculty to Department Chair
- The Community Role and Challenges of a College Leader
- The Cost of Leadership
- The Perception Problem
- The Role of Emotions in Developing Trust: Why Charisma Is Not Enough
- The Two (Organizational) Cultures of the University
- The Wrong Way to Talk about Higher Ed
- Three Things You Need as a New Dean
- Transition to Administration: From Autonomy to Hierarchy
- Transitioning from Faculty to Chair
- Translucent Academic Leadership in 3 Steps
- Using Appreciative Inquiry to Facilitate Positive Change
- Using Stress to Create Change, Just as Nature Intended
- What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Faculty Buy In’
- When Academic Leaders Anger Their Stakeholders
- Zen and the Art of Higher Education Administration
Legal Issues
- Clery’s October 1 Deadline Has Passed. What Now?
- Consumer Liability 101: 6 Areas to Watch, Part I
- Consumer Liability 101: Six Areas to Watch, Part II
- Freedom of Speech Issues: A Legal Primer for Academic Leaders
- How to Build a Threat Assessment Team on Campus
- More than Words: Looking at the Context of Consent
- Six Practical Solutions for Racial Tensions on Campus
- Understanding the Fisher Decision
- What You Need to Know About FERPA
Marketing
- 10 Student Recruitment Tips for Department Chairs
- 5 Reasons to Keep Loving Your Job in Admissions
- Attracting Environmentally Conscious Students
- Bringing Online Programs to Small Institutions
- Building Alliances and Networks of Support in Higher Education: A New Era in Higher Education
- Can Blended Learning Boost Retention?
- Combating Student Debt with Financial Education
- Community College Recruiting: Expecting More with Less
- Creating a Data-Informed Culture
- Creating Military-Friendly Marketing for Online Programs
- Fundraising: Lead with Gift Officers in Mind
- Institutional, Chair Challenges in Recruiting Faculty in STEM Disciplines
- Internal Perspective on Data Analysis
- Outreach to Students from Underserved Communities
- Rebranding a University: Lessons Learned
- Rise of the Transfer Student
- Solving the First-Year Student Puzzle
- Tailoring the Admissions Experience
- The Flywheel of Retention
- The Power of Predictive Analytics for Student Retention
- Using Social Media to Support University Branding
- What Students Are Looking For In An Institution
- Why Colleges Shouldn’t Focus on Failure
- Why Republicans Distrust Higher Education (and What We Can Do about It)
- Your University Is Too Small
Marketing and Communication
Mission and Philosophy
- Being Intentionally Collaborative: Making the First Move
- Building Alliances and Networks of Support in Higher Education: A New Era in Higher Education
- Building Trust among Employees: Secrets to Success
- Campus Civility Project: Emotionally Intelligent Conversations
- Can Innovation Be Taught?
- Collective Terms Perpetuate Stereotypes and Biases: Change Begins with Leadership
- Creating Dialogue in the Interest of Social Justice on Campus
- Developing Critical Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Academic Leaders
- Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Mental Health Effects of Noncollegial Colleagues
- Establishing Effective Relationships Between Faculty and Instructional Designers
- Friendship as a Teaching Strategy for Graduate Students
- How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
- Lesson Learned—Lesson Shared: Give It a Dignified 24 Hours
- Lessons Learned from the Chinese System of Higher Education
- Listening to (and Appreciating) the Voices on the Front Lines
- Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion a Mission, Not Just an Initiative
- Mindful Academic Leadership
- On Mixed Marriages: Building Community Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
- Petty Principles: A Challenge to Higher Education Leaders in the Wake of a Social Injustice Crisis
- Take a Vacation—Please!
- The Department Chair as the Engine of Diversity Transformation
- The Departmental Gestalt: Fostering Student Major Identity and Program Pride
- Three Strategies to Improve Your Health in the New Year
- Why and How We Should Choose Civility in Academic Workplaces
- Why Getting It Done Is Often Better Than Getting It Perfect
- Work-Life Balance: Managing Your Koyaanisqatsi
News and Trends
- A Conversation with Barbara Lawton, Continued
- Anatomy of a Budget Crisis: Wright State University Makes Nearly $31M in Cuts
- Can Technology Improve Student Safety?
- Getting Organized: Tips for Academic Leaders
- Higher Education as a Public Good: A Perspective from Iceland
- Highlights from the Magna Leadership in Higher Education Conference
- Purdue and Kaplan: A Good Business Deal That May Hurt Students
- Red America, Blue America: A Country (Campus) Very Much Divided
Pedagogy
- Bridging the Generational Gap
- Closing the Skills Expectations–Performance Gap
- Curt Bonk Talks about Open Education
- Friendship as a Teaching Strategy for Graduate Students
- Hearing the Call: Helping Students Find a Vocation, Not Just a Job
- Improve Your Teaching with a Teaching Toolbox
- The Importance of Non-Cognitive Factors
Personal Best
Program and Course Assessment
- Can a Capstone Course Try to Accomplish Too Much?
- Checklists As an Academic Leadership Tool
- Educating Students: The Moral Judgment Challenge for Higher Education
- How to Avoid Common Assessment-Reporting Pitfalls
- How to Lead Assessment in Your Unit
- Promoting an Innovative Culture within a Department
- Putting Assessment in Its Place
- Reconceptualizing the Peer Review Process for Online Courses
- Restructuring Academic Programs into Larger Divisions
- Seven Important Factors in Program Assessment
- The Case of the Unevaluated Online Courses*
- When Faculty Overreact to Course Ratings
- Why All Evaluations Are Not Alike
Program Development
- Adding Graduate Degrees and a Graduate School at a Traditional Bachelor Degree Granting Institution
- Capacity-building through International Programs
- Even if It’s Not Broken, It Can Still Be Improved: Reorganizing for Effective Alignment
- Four Strategies to Improve Faculty Buy-In for Online Education
- Higher Education: Exporting Middle-Class Dreams
- How to Be More Strategic with Online Program Planning
- How to Encourage Faculty to Adopt Open Educational Resources
- Leading throughout the Organizational Life Cycle
- Moving Beyond Majors
- Myths and Beliefs That Limit Effectiveness of Higher Education
- New Academic Programs in Lean Financial Times: Process Revisited and Lessons Learned
- Online Education Data: What Are You Measuring, and How Are You Using It?
- Seven Strategies to Grow Online Courses and Programs
- STEM Fatigue
- STEM Fatigue
- The Art of Framing in Academic Settings (Part 1)
- The Art of Framing in Academic Settings (Part 2)
- The Value of Cross-Discipline Networking
- Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage Faculty and Facilitate Change
- Weight Management for Universities: Evaluating Academic Bloat
- When the End Is in Sight
Recruitment
- 10 Student Recruitment Tips for Department Chairs
- 5 Reasons to Keep Loving Your Job in Admissions
- Attracting Environmentally Conscious Students
- Institutional, Chair Challenges in Recruiting Faculty in STEM Disciplines
- Internal Perspective on Data Analysis
- Outreach to Students from Underserved Communities
- Rise of the Transfer Student
- Tailoring the Admissions Experience
- What Students Are Looking For In An Institution
Recruitment
- 10 Student Recruitment Tips for Department Chairs
- 5 Reasons to Keep Loving Your Job in Admissions
- Attracting Environmentally Conscious Students
- Auditing Diversity: Academic Leadership’s Instrumental Role
- Effective Strategies for Increasing Undergraduate Student Enrollment
- Establishing and Supporting a Faculty Mentoring Program
- Exodus or Migration? Faculty Are Leaving
- Institutional, Chair Challenges in Recruiting Faculty in STEM Disciplines
- Interim Administrative Appointments in Higher Education: Considerations for Potential Applicants
- Internal Perspective on Data Analysis
- Outreach to Students from Underserved Communities
- Rise of the Transfer Student
- Tailoring the Admissions Experience
- Throw the BUMs out: Higher Education Acronyms Impede Communication
- What Students Are Looking For In An Institution
Regulation and Compliance
Research
Retention
- Can Blended Learning Boost Retention?
- Combating Student Debt with Financial Education
- Effective Strategies for Increasing Undergraduate Student Enrollment
- Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Culture for Student Success
- Exodus or Migration? Faculty Are Leaving
- Five Tips for Making Tenure
- Internal Perspective on Data Analysis
- Solving the First-Year Student Puzzle
- The Flywheel of Retention
- The Power of Predictive Analytics for Student Retention
- Throw the BUMs out: Higher Education Acronyms Impede Communication
- Triangulating for a New Approach to Student Success
- When Full-Time Faculty and Adjuncts Collide: Ideas to Maintain Departmental Peace
- Why Colleges Shouldn’t Focus on Failure
Retention
Risk Management
- Accessibility: Making a Plan to Do What’s Right (and Required)
- Challenges Facing Community College Transfer Students
- Clemson Provides Textbook Case of Performance-Based Fire Protection at New Football Practice Facility
- Clery’s October 1 Deadline Has Passed. What Now?
- Compliance in Higher Education: Six Considerations
- Consumer Liability 101: 6 Areas to Watch, Part I
- Consumer Liability 101: Six Areas to Watch, Part II
- Creating a Policy and Procedures Manual Specific to Online Education
- Dealing with Disruptive Students
- Effective Referrals to Campus Counseling Services
- Food Banks Address Hidden Hunger on Campus
- Freedom of Speech Issues: A Legal Primer for Academic Leaders
- Guns on College Campuses – Not A Good Idea!
- Helping First-Generation College Students in Florida
- How to Build a Threat Assessment Team on Campus
- How to Intervene with a Student in Distress
- More than Words: Looking at the Context of Consent
- Moving Beyond One and Done Sexual Misconduct Trainings
- On Mixed Marriages: Building Community Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
- Promoting and Encouraging Undergraduate Research
- Six Practical Solutions for Racial Tensions on Campus
- Six Steps to Process Students’ Stress
- Spotlight on Campus Speech: Q&A with Michelle N. Deutchman of the ADL (Part 1)
- Spotlight on Campus Speech: Q&A with Michelle N. Deutchman of the ADL (Part 2)
- Spotlight on Campus Speech: Q&A with Tom McDaniel
- Supporting International Students
- The Administrative Role in Managing Difficult Students: A Look at the Literature
- The Importance of Vulnerability and Authenticity
- The Traumatic Impact of Interpersonal Crime on the Campus Sexual Assault Victim/Survivor
- Triage for Inadvertent Invention Disclosure
- Two Simple Steps to Inspire Better Student Engagement
- Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Understanding the Fisher Decision
- Universities Prepare for Crisis Communication
- UW–Madison Campus Climate Survey: 5 Key Results Charted
- What Academic Leaders Should Know about Student Dating and Domestic Violence
- What You Need to Know About FERPA
- Working with Complaining Students—and Their Parents
Scholarship
- 5 Recommendations for Completing the Flexible Sabbatical
- Bridging the Generational Gap
- Building a Pathway to Cultural Competence Through Academic Service Learning
- Closing the Skills Expectations–Performance Gap
- Concerning Competency-Based Education
- Core Curriculum Improves Academic Rigor, Identity, and Retention
- Curt Bonk Talks about Open Education
- Differentiating Instruction in an Online Classroom
- Finding Your Unicorns: Creating a Data-Informed Culture
- Foster Faculty Scholarship with this Agenda
- Four Strategies to Improve Faculty Buy-In for Online Education
- Friendship as a Teaching Strategy for Graduate Students
- Hearing the Call: Helping Students Find a Vocation, Not Just a Job
- Improve Your Teaching with a Teaching Toolbox
- Is Interdisciplinary Scholarship the Future of Higher Education?
- Is Time Up for the Credit Hour?
- Lessons Learned from the Chinese System of Higher Education
- Moving from Courses to a Curriculum
- The (Surprising) Benefits of e-Textbooks: A Study
- The Importance of Non-Cognitive Factors
- The Research Process and Its Relevance to the Culture of Assessment
- The Research Process and Its Relevance to the Culture of Assessment
- The Value of the 60-Year Curriculum
- Understanding and Managing Perceptions of Academic Rigor
- Using Formal Program Review for Continuous Improvement
- Using Social Media for Learning
- Why Alternative Credentials Are Critical to Institutional Success
Skills and Development
- 4 Principles to Manage a Variety of Administrative Issues
- Academic Leadership at Multicampus Institutions
- Best Practices in Preparing Academic Leaders
- Bottom-Line Leadership
- Bridging the Digital Divide
- Considerations for Successfully “Managing Up”
- Deans’ Interpersonal/Negotiating Skills
- Developing a Leadership Philosophy
- Developing Formal and Informal Faculty Leaders
- Failing Gracefully
- Five Newbie Mistakes Made by Academic Leaders
- Five Recommendations to Advance Careers in Enrollment and Retention Management
- Hallmarks of Excellence in Online Leadership
- How an Academic Leader Changes a Lightbulb
- How to Build Emotional Intelligence in Emerging Leaders
- Leading Change Amid Opposition
- Leading throughout the Organizational Life Cycle
- Lessons from an Interim K–12 Principal
- Locating the (Leadership) Land Mines
- Locating the Academic Leadership Land Mines
- Maintaining a State of Readiness for Sudden Transition to Deanship
- Making Soup from Rain: My Year as Provost
- Managing Student Complaints
- More Tools for the New Dean’s Toolbox
- Navigating Campus Minefields through Mindful Leadership
- Petty Principles for Leaders in Higher Education
- Preparing Academic Leaders Through Simulation and Role-Play
- Preparing Future Academic Leaders in Graduate School
- Proven Tools for Academic Leaders to Successfully Lead Change
- Reading the Boss’ Mind: When Less Really Is Less
- Six Questions to Ask to Successfully Establish a Program
- Take a Vacation – Please! Maintaining Work-Life Balance
- The ‘Quiet’ Dean: Rethinking the ‘Extrovert Ideal’ of Leadership
- The Two (Organizational) Cultures of the University
- Three Things You Need as a New Dean
- Transition to Administration: From Autonomy to Hierarchy
- Transitioning from Faculty to Chair
- Translucent Academic Leadership in 3 Steps
- Using Stress to Create Change, Just as Nature Intended
- What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Faculty Buy In’
- Zen and the Art of Higher Education Administration
Strategic Planning
- Accountability in its Many Forms
- Creating ‘Big Data’ Teams
- Creating a Strategic Plan for Global Engagement: Ideas for Academic Leaders
- Getting Organized
- How Much Does Instruction in Your Program Cost?
- How to Be More Strategic with Online Program Planning
- Inspiring Change with Your Strategic Plan
- Invest in Your Strategic Meetings by Engaging an Outside Facilitator
- Planning Department Staffing to Meet Academic Needs
- Practical Higher Education: Fostering Sustainable Student Workforce Skills beyond the Academy
- The Challenge of Leading Change: Some Remedies for Resistance (Part 1)
- The Challenge of Leading Change: Some Remedies for Resistance (Part 2)
- Vision Statements as Empowerment Tools
Student Affairs
- Challenges Facing Community College Transfer Students
- Effective Referrals to Campus Counseling Services
- Food Banks Address Hidden Hunger on Campus
- Helping First-Generation College Students in Florida
- How to Intervene with a Student in Distress
- Moving Beyond One and Done Sexual Misconduct Trainings
- On Mixed Marriages: Building Community Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
- Promoting and Encouraging Undergraduate Research
- Six Steps to Process Students’ Stress
- Supporting International Students
- The Importance of Vulnerability and Authenticity
- Two Simple Steps to Inspire Better Student Engagement
- Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
- What Academic Leaders Should Know about Student Dating and Domestic Violence
- Working with Complaining Students—and Their Parents