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Cultivating Future Leaders: Faculty Leadership Seminar At Clermont College, Kim Jacobs-Beck

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Like many universities, ours faced the challenge of needing to cultivate future department chairs and other academic leaders. Current department chairs developed a leadership seminar, a year-long series of workshops and roundtables discussions for faculty from every department. The seminar alternates with a broader-based, informal leadership discussion series.

Building Credibility And Consensus As Newly-Tenured Or Junior Faculty Chairs, Carmen T. Skaggs, Jennifer Eimers

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Participants will explore the challenges that newly-tenured or junior faculty department chairs may face. Representing a small, private college and a regional comprehensive university, our panelists will offer recommendations for building credibility and consensus within the department even when there may be a gap of age and/or experience between the chair and faculty.

The Challenges Of Being Chair In 2015: A 28 Year Perspective, Domenick J. Pinto

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

For 28 years as chair, I have witnessed the evolution of the role of chairperson as entrepreneurial skills, conflict resolution and time management have become increasingly vital to the success of the chair. My session will summarize the challenges that chairs must now face and overcome in 2015. The session will help relatively new and new chairs face scenarios and how to problem solve them.

Preparing And Using Classroom Observations In Faculty Teaching Evaluations, Peggy A. Thelen

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Department chairs charged with evaluating faculty teaching often receive no formal observation and assessment training. This session offers suggestions for the organization, implementation, and reflection of the faculty teaching evaluation process. We will also discuss the difficulties and successes of the faculty teaching evaluation process.

Chairing Transition: Leading A Department Through A Merger, David M. Keller

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This session will focus discussion on the impact of merging pre-existing departments and/or colleges to form a new entity on Chair leadership strategies. Participants will discuss factors to be considered to ensure successful transition for the department and maximize growth in the new entity.

Inspirational Space As A Mechanism To Transform Departmental Culture, John Paxton

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Montana State University’s Computer Science Department created a collaborative, informal, Japanese-themed Student Success Center. The goal of the space was to broaden participation and induce cultural change in computer science. The design philosophy behind the room now serves as a model for collaborative space at MSU.

A Learning Community For New Chairs, Lynn Stallings, Meghan Burke, Ruth A. Goldfine, Dawn L. Kirby, Monica Nandan, Sharon Pearcey, Kandice Porter, Amy Woszczynski

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Key elements of an effective professional learning community will be discussed, including readings, peer mentoring, meeting structure, composition, and timing of topics. Presenters will discuss the challenges of their first years as chairs, particularly finding their individual leadership styles and a balance between professional and personal lives.

Leading Change While Managing Conflict In Departmental Transitions, Michelle M. Proctor, Karent Ross

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This session will explore conflict management strategies utilized while redefining a department during reaccreditation. Case examples of approaches used and results achieved will be presented in relation to existing literature. Through group activities, participants will be invited to explore and discuss the effectiveness of strategies used in each example presented.

Policy Making In The Middle: Developing And Implementing Departmental And Institutional Policies, Dr. Alzada Tipton

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

When it comes to departmental and institutional policies, department chairs frequently find themselves literally in the middle, tasked with implementing institutional policies coming from above and obligated to develop departmental policies that are needed for the department below. These policies can concern themselves with an almost unlimited range of topics, including curriculum and faculty issues, problems involving academic dishonesty and student complaints, and institutional initiatives such as cost savings and compliance directives. Department chairs can find themselves having to lead a reluctant department into implementing an institutional policy not of their own making, or they can find themselves having to …

Mining From The Middle: Making Resources Count At Work, Dr. Carol A. Mullen

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

As strategic middle managers, department chairs are at the nexus between their academic unit and college, and they must contend with the competing priorities of these different domains. These leaders are not only change agents but also fiscal agents tasked with budget and personnel responsibilities that can be turned into opportunities for ensuring the best return on investment, even in financially lean times.

This workshop will focus on how to capitalize on financial opportunities that extend beyond one’s operating account and other allocations. How can we maximize opportunities to support and develop faculty, students and staff, given the inevitable constraints …

Jack Mezirow: Theorist, Researcher, Practitioner, Learner, Elizabeth Kasl

Adult Education Research Conference

Jack Mezirow’s theory of adult learning is related to his beliefs about research and actualized in his vision for practice.

Searching For Purpose: Mezirow’S Early View Of Transformative Learning, Amy D. Rose

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper discusses the early work of Jack Mezirow in terms of his later writings on transformative learning. In particular, it examines his early interest in the ways individuals change through education and how this related to broader social change. It also posits that his earlier interest was philosophical rather than based in learning theory.

It’S Been The Best Of Times: My Twenty-Year Retrospective On Adult Education, Juanita Johnson-Bailey

Adult Education Research Conference

This essay presents a personal assessment of the ways in which the field of Adult and Continuing Education has succeeded and faltered during the last two decades and discusses how the field can address future challenges.

Reflections: 50 Years Of Change In Adult Education Research And Practice, Janet K. Poley

Adult Education Research Conference

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Small Stage, Big World: Meaning-Making In Television Program, Bo Chang

Adult Education Research Conference

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The Roles And Strategies Of The District Government In Promoting Community Education, Lei Jiang

Adult Education Research Conference

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Study On Identification Of City Life And Adaptive Learning Of New Residents Whose Land Was Expropriated In China, Yilu Jiang

Adult Education Research Conference

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The Social Lives And Work Experiences Of Adults With High Functioning Autism: An Indian Scenario, Sanpalei Nylla Lyngdoh

Adult Education Research Conference

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Working Together To Train Child Welfare Workers On The Impact Of Domestic Violence On Children: A Faculty-Staff Collaborative Research Project, Andrea Nikischer, Jeanette Koncikowski

Adult Education Research Conference

This presentation will discuss the “Research in Domestic Violence for Child Welfare Trainers and Case Workers" collaborative “match” project. This project featured the pairing of a SUNY Buffalo State faculty member with an education specialist from the Institute for Community Health Promotion. Research findings will be shared.

Closing Session: Putting Jack Mezirow’S Ideas Into Context, Michael Newman

Adult Education Research Conference

The author argues that all adult education theory is either humanist or socialist.

He reviews some of Jack Mezirow’s ideas with this idea in mind.

Opening Panel: Adult Education Then And Now, Michael Newman

Adult Education Research Conference

This is not so much a paper as four quotations from the author’s previous writings, along with some annotations. The author describes his first encounter with adult education. He looks at one of the reasons why adult education was robust. He describes the onset of professionalism. He describes the effects of specialisation. And he identifies the paradoxical situation adult education finds itself in today

International Adult And Continuing Education Hall Of Fame Panel, Juanita Johnson Bailey, Michael Newman, James Pappas, Janet Poley

Adult Education Research Conference

There have been major “sea changes” in adult higher education in the time of my career. Significant among those include online and hybrid education, the creation of adult centric and proprietary institutions, the concomitant unbundling of degrees and credentialing, the enormous growth of adult and non-traditional students, the true globalization of American style education and the reduction of adult education departments/tracks and/or their replacement with human resource development. I suggest that we are in a golden era of self-directed adult learning; but, that it is incumbent upon us in adult education to address more directly and with greater energy the …

Incarcerated Women As Facilitators: A Preliminary Review Of Motivations And Skill Development In Group Leadership Settings, Chaundra L. Whitehead

Adult Education Research Conference

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with about 500 prisoners per 100,000 residents (Tsai & Scommegna, 2012). There are currently about 7 million offenders under the supervision of the adult correctional systems in the U.S. There are numerous statistics demonstrating the growth and scope of women in prison. The rate of increase has been about twice that of their male counterparts. The number of incarcerated woman has jumped a shocking 757 percent since 1977 (Talvi, 2007, p.3). As a result of these growing inmate populations there has been an increased focus on the topic of …