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Confronting The “Dark Side” Of Higher Education Administration: Building Relational Capacity Among Academic Leaders, Jared Rawlings
Confronting The “Dark Side” Of Higher Education Administration: Building Relational Capacity Among Academic Leaders, Jared Rawlings
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Unethical leadership exists in higher education and the purpose of this session is to present current research about “dark” organizational behavior, explain the impact of unethical leadership on populations in higher education (faculty, students), present central features of relational capacity, and model practices for academic leaders to build relational capacity.
Frame Your Leadership, Rebecca L. Koltz, Melissa Odegard
Frame Your Leadership, Rebecca L. Koltz, Melissa Odegard
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Participants will engage with Bolman and Deal’s four frames of leadership model to gain insight and look at issues facing their departments from multiple perspectives. Come to this presentation and learn what frame(s) you use most and understand how to interact with others on your team by using different frames.
Transitions Of Self: Assuming Or Leaving A Chair Role, Denise Bullock
Transitions Of Self: Assuming Or Leaving A Chair Role, Denise Bullock
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
We experience multiple transitions throughout our lives. Transitioning from faculty to chair is one of those key transitional moments in which our sense of self shifts with the change in role. Participants will work through a series of exercises to discover, analyze, and plan for that transition of self.
Leadership Networks: A Strategic Approach For The Department Chair's Development, Leda Stawnychko
Leadership Networks: A Strategic Approach For The Department Chair's Development, Leda Stawnychko
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The interactive workshop will begin with a 20 min introductory presentation drawing on the results of an empirical study conducted at a comprehensive research university in Canada. The participants will be invited to analyze the importance of networks in the context of their own leadership development and to explore strategies to develop and nurture them.
Career Trajectory And Aspiring Deans, John Buckwalter, Leslie Durham, George Low
Career Trajectory And Aspiring Deans, John Buckwalter, Leslie Durham, George Low
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
While universities have processes to assist faculty to progress through their academic careers, most institutions provide little formal assistance to department chairs considering career progression to a deanship or other higher level administrative leadership positions. This interactive session provides practical guidance in an interactive format to those contemplating pursuing advancement in academic leadership.
Applied Servant Leadership: A Practical Approach, Christopher Jochum
Applied Servant Leadership: A Practical Approach, Christopher Jochum
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Leadership is a people business that requires courage, character and vulnerability. This workshop enables participants to explore the facets of servant leadership by developing their own personal mission statement, learning how to effectively address conflict, and understanding the value of building relationships with students, faculty and staff.
How To Effectively Serve Your Department By Being An Influential Leader, Shelley Rouser, Charlisa Edelin, Renee Marine
How To Effectively Serve Your Department By Being An Influential Leader, Shelley Rouser, Charlisa Edelin, Renee Marine
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
For this workshop, we will invite Chairs to critically think about their role as a servant leader and how to pull six levers of influence to drive change. We will open the discussion with research and knowledge about the different types of leadership and concentrate on why influence is essential. Following the discussion, we will collaborate with Chairs in a consultative model on some influential servant leadership successes and challenges in a working session focused on generating practical next steps and workable solutions to the problems being faced.
The Culturally Intelligent Leader, Sean F. Daly
The Culturally Intelligent Leader, Sean F. Daly
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Research has shown that a culturally intelligent (CQ) leader will have a positive impact on organizational culture, satisfaction, productivity, and retention. Moreover, data shows that CQ has a strong positive relationship with job satisfaction and perceived transformational leadership.
This training program is designed to help leaders develop a greater awareness of their motivation and understanding of cultural intelligence while also helping them to develop strategies and an action plan around improving their level of CQ. The suggested audience for this are experienced managers who have had some interaction with a culturally diverse population and want to serve their population better.
Negotiating Conflict At The Intersection: Identity And Problem Solving, Toni Alexander, Lesli K. Pace, Melissa Odegard
Negotiating Conflict At The Intersection: Identity And Problem Solving, Toni Alexander, Lesli K. Pace, Melissa Odegard
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
An interactive workshop focused on improving self-awareness and understanding of conflict management strategies to improve effectiveness in conflict resolution as a chairperson.
Hollywood Leadership Theory, Part 2: Examples From World Leaders, Christopher Barrick
Hollywood Leadership Theory, Part 2: Examples From World Leaders, Christopher Barrick
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Following the success of last year’s presentation at the 39th Academic Chairpersons Conference, Part 2 of the Hollywood Leadership Theory continues to demonstrate how leadership advice can be found in television and movies as readily as it is in journals and books.
Giving Up The Chair Role And Rejoining The Faculty, Stephen F. Pyle, David A. Line
Giving Up The Chair Role And Rejoining The Faculty, Stephen F. Pyle, David A. Line
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Chairpersons often return to faculty with little planning or preparation. For many, this transition can lead to role confusion, performance issues, loss of relationships and feelings of inadequacy. This interactive presentation, informed by research, will equip chairs and administrators with critical planning components in support of successful return to faculty.
Establishing And Maintaining A Personal Leadership Network, Jared Rawlings, Christopher Jochum
Establishing And Maintaining A Personal Leadership Network, Jared Rawlings, Christopher Jochum
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
In this session, two academic leaders will share lessons learned during their first years leading a department. This session will include advice related to establishing and maintaining a personal leadership network.
Are You Blue? Personality, Communication, And Leadership, Hillary Gleason
Are You Blue? Personality, Communication, And Leadership, Hillary Gleason
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This workshop will identify participants' dominant personality styles utilizing the True Colors questionnaire developed by Don Lowry in 1978. To that end, there will be a discussion on each color's communication and leadership strengths, weaknesses, and stressors. This is a fun activity that requires movement and most people enjoy. Finally, participants will be paired up with rotating partners and given a departmental chair scenario wherein they need to communicate and lead by utilizing what they have learned about dealing with the personality types of the colors. This exercise will help participants develop a strategic approach to their communication in order …
Embracing The Tension: A New/Ancient Approach To Problem Solving, Rick Olsen
Embracing The Tension: A New/Ancient Approach To Problem Solving, Rick Olsen
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This workshop will illuminate four important concepts and approaches to problem solving and problem navigation. Participants will then work individually and collectively around problems of shared interest to deepen their understanding of these concepts. The running example by the facilitator will be faculty retirements.
Focus: The Development Of A Community Of Academic Leaders, Lina Prada Angarita, Nayibe Rosado Mendinueta, Katina Katinac@Uninorte.Edu.Co
Focus: The Development Of A Community Of Academic Leaders, Lina Prada Angarita, Nayibe Rosado Mendinueta, Katina Katinac@Uninorte.Edu.Co
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This presentation reports the development of a community of practice for academic leaders in Colombia, South America. Document analysis from 2016 to 2020 helped to characterize the nature of the activities, the purposes, the products and gains. There is evidence of a change of purpose, agency and awareness.
The Department Chair And Creative Leadership, Julia Hovanec
The Department Chair And Creative Leadership, Julia Hovanec
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Leading a department in the ever-changing and, at times, tumultuous landscape of higher education calls for creative problem-solving and divergent thinking. Participants will engage in specific creative leadership strategies using creativity as a reflective practice and as a means to lead boldly. The goals are to spur change while cultivating an inclusive department.
College Reconfiguration: Building Faculty Support, Maureen E. Wilson, Dawn M. Shinew, Tracy L. Huziak-Clark, Deborah Wooldridge
College Reconfiguration: Building Faculty Support, Maureen E. Wilson, Dawn M. Shinew, Tracy L. Huziak-Clark, Deborah Wooldridge
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Following a year-long discussion, deliberation, and feedback process, faculty and staff in the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University voted overwhelmingly in support of reconfiguring from five schools and one department to three schools. We discuss our journey and outline the initial benefits, challenges, and lessons of this new configuration.
How To Retain Your Best Faculty Members, Jeff Buller
How To Retain Your Best Faculty Members, Jeff Buller
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
As department chairs, we devote a great deal of time and energy to recruiting excellent faculty members, but we spend far less time and energy trying to retain them. Superb college professors are vital to a department’s success, but they are also highly competitive in the marketplace. They have options and, if they begin to think that they can do better (financially or otherwise) elsewhere or even outside of academia, they’ll start looking elsewhere. In this best practices workshop, we’ll explore how to apply certain strategies to our work at the departmental level so as to increase the likelihood that …
The First 100 Days As An Academic Department Chair, Dr. Sara Rutledge
The First 100 Days As An Academic Department Chair, Dr. Sara Rutledge
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session will highlight lessons learned from the presenter’s first 100 days as an academic department chairperson. Topics covered will include: daily operations, faculty, students, alumni, enrollment, retention, academic planning, assessment, accreditation, compliance, governmental relations, articulations, technology, communications, marketing, community engagement, data management, budgeting, reporting, event planning, and initiatives.
The Chairperson : Faculty, Administrator And Academic And Crisis Leader, Domenick J. Pinto
The Chairperson : Faculty, Administrator And Academic And Crisis Leader, Domenick J. Pinto
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
For 36 years, I have witnessed the evolution of the role of chair as economic, social and student climates emerge. My workshop will summarize the challenges that chairs must now face in 2023. The session will help relatively new and new chairs observe various scenarios and discuss how to problem solve them.
How Covid-19 Clarified My Role As Chair, Mark Urtel
How Covid-19 Clarified My Role As Chair, Mark Urtel
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenter and participants will reflect on and share their academic chair experiences and subsequent yet significant leadership alterations due directly to COVID-19. These transformations may be long- or short-term but are exclusive to being a department chair.
A Chairpersons Guide To Managing Time And Stress, Christian K. Hansen
A Chairpersons Guide To Managing Time And Stress, Christian K. Hansen
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
In this interactive workshop we discuss time and stress management specifically from the perspective of a department chairperson responsible for leading an academic department through numerous internal and external challenges. The focus will be on practical strategies for effective use of time, not only at a personal level, but also at a department wide level.
Navigating Your Department Post Pandemic With Creative Wellness, Krista Bridgmon, Elizabeth List
Navigating Your Department Post Pandemic With Creative Wellness, Krista Bridgmon, Elizabeth List
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenters will discuss and participants will practice creative counseling skills including mindfulness, empathy, effective questioning, reflecting emotion and goal setting which will assist the evolving work-life concerns of faculty, staff, and students following the pandemic.
Teaming Up To Reduce "Sludge": Practical Guidance For Process Improvement, Kevin Van Winkle Dr., Timothy Mottet Dr.
Teaming Up To Reduce "Sludge": Practical Guidance For Process Improvement, Kevin Van Winkle Dr., Timothy Mottet Dr.
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenters will share and discuss best practices for faculty and administrative collaboration to reduce “sludge” (i.e. inefficiencies in university processes) as a way to increase faculty and staff morale.
Fighting For Resources: Using Data To Effectively Advocate For Your Department, Craig D. Hlavac
Fighting For Resources: Using Data To Effectively Advocate For Your Department, Craig D. Hlavac
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The Department chairperson is the primary spokesperson and advocate for the academic department. As many institutions continue to see enrollment declines and shrinking revenues, the ability for chairpersons to advocate effectively for limited resources has become even more important. Operating budgets, reassigned time, course offerings, and tenure-track faculty lines are all scrutinized with a focus on finding efficiencies. Today’s department chairperson must be adept at advocating for their department using data-based arguments. This session will review the most common data metrics used by deans to assess academic departments, and provide participants with clear, concise methods for using this data to …
“I’M Elected Chair? Now What?” Helpful Strategies For Newer Chairs, Gian S. Pagnucci, Alex Romagnoli, Ethan Krase
“I’M Elected Chair? Now What?” Helpful Strategies For Newer Chairs, Gian S. Pagnucci, Alex Romagnoli, Ethan Krase
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session shares concrete strategies for helping department chairs navigate common problems more effectively and efficiently. With attention to managing email, handling complaints, constructing schedules, building relationships, and working with upper administration, the presenters offer practical tips to help newer chairs succeed.
New Way To Be A Chair Via Distributed Shared Model, Dennis Anderson
New Way To Be A Chair Via Distributed Shared Model, Dennis Anderson
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Being a chair in today's higher education is more stressful due to various issues related to enrollment, administration demands, and limited and shrinking resources. Chairs have to manage and juggle demands from all stakeholders including students, faculty, staff, and administration. This presentation is about how to meet these challenges by creating a shared management system that enables and empowers faculty in the department by giving them portfolios. This model moves away from chair centric model that one person holds all decision making power by controlling resources. Since my department moved to shared distributed chair model, the department productivity is higher …
Needle In A Haystack – Searching For Your New Faculty Colleague, Jeff Bright
Needle In A Haystack – Searching For Your New Faculty Colleague, Jeff Bright
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The presenter and participants will explore best practices for conducting a search for a new faculty member. Topics covered in the session will include selecting search committee members, recruiting a candidate pool, virtual interviews, scheduling the campus visit, do’s, don’ts, and bias in the screening process.
Transparency And Communication For Chairing A Healthy Department, Robert Williams
Transparency And Communication For Chairing A Healthy Department, Robert Williams
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Explore how to ensure all faculty in the department are engaged as full and participatory individuals whose voices are heard. Topics include: committee composition, scheduling, resolving conflicts, handling difficult faculty, budget works, effective relations across offices, communicating expectations of evaluation and tenuring, supporting faculty initiative, and delegating responsibilitie
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Assessment Basics: How To Implement An Effective Student Learning Assessment Process, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Assessment Basics is a workshop focused on understanding the purpose behind student learning assessment, strategies to guide curricular integration, and techniques to use data for program improvement. Participants will be involved in leadership techniques to transfer into their own context.