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Fighting For Resources: Using Data To Effectively Advocate For Your Department, Craig D. Hlavac Mar 2023

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 Mar 2023

“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 Mar 2023

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 Mar 2023

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 Mar 2023

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 Mar 2023

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.


Using Canvas Lms Learning Outcomes Assessment And Program Improvement, Frederick Burrack Mar 2023

Using Canvas Lms Learning Outcomes Assessment And Program Improvement, Frederick Burrack

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This session will provide a step-by-step process of creating program outcomes in Canvas. These outcomes are aligned with assessment tasks through the scoring devices used in courses, internships, or other course-based means through which students demonstrate outcomes proficiencies.


Program Assessment – Implementing A Cycle Of Continuous Improvement, Terri Gaeddert Mar 2023

Program Assessment – Implementing A Cycle Of Continuous Improvement, Terri Gaeddert

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Presenter and participants will discuss challenges of assessment processes and best practices available to assessment coordinators, department chairs, and administrators to support a culture of assessment for continuous improvement. The presenter will share how adjusting the timeline of assessment reporting provided for increased data collection and more meaningful discussion and reflection on data trends.


Supporting Faculty, Staff, And Student-Parents Though Cognitive, Emotional, And Behavioral Engagement, Beth Kania-Gosche, Kathryn Northcut Mar 2023

Supporting Faculty, Staff, And Student-Parents Though Cognitive, Emotional, And Behavioral Engagement, Beth Kania-Gosche, Kathryn Northcut

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Presenters will describe intentionally developed supports for faculty, staff, and students with children, an aspect of diversity and inclusion often overlooked. Participants will see specific examples of ongoing initiatives, along with a theory of engagement that articulates cognitive, behavioral, and emotional/personal aspects.


Equity, Inclusion, And Faculty Hiring Committees, Jill Channing Mar 2023

Equity, Inclusion, And Faculty Hiring Committees, Jill Channing

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Issues of explicit and implicit bias pervade hiring processes for faculty members. This session focuses on creating equitable and inclusive faculty hiring processes and practices. Practices include defining and recognizing bias, adhering to university policies, and addressing equity during committee deliberations and decision-making processes.


Embracing The Change: Personal Experience In Academic Unit Transformation, Hazem Said Feb 2023

Embracing The Change: Personal Experience In Academic Unit Transformation, Hazem Said

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This presentation will cover personal experience and case study on how academic unit heads can embrace change, build an identity for their unit, and lead their faculty and staff in transforming their unit from obscurity to prominence while under budget constraints and limited authority.

The session will draw from personal experience establishing an academic unit and transforming it from a small unknown teaching unit to one of the largest teaching and research units on the campus of a research one university. Over ten years, the grassroots transformation included the hiring of 24 new faculty and 20 new staff and sustaining …


A Case-Research Of Teacher-Driven Plc In A Hierarchical Organization: An Ecological Framework With Highlight In Adult Learning, Adiya Alimujiang, Qian Wang Jan 2023

A Case-Research Of Teacher-Driven Plc In A Hierarchical Organization: An Ecological Framework With Highlight In Adult Learning, Adiya Alimujiang, Qian Wang

Adult Education Research Conference

Inspired by the organizational learning philosophy, this study developed an ecological framework and applied it to examine the mechanism of a Chinese fee-paying school’s teacher professional learning activities.


Promoting Learning And Upskilling For Success (Plus): An Inclusive Excellence Framework To Facilitate Workplace Readiness Of Underrepresented Adult Learners (Uals), T. Christa Guilbaud, Patrick Guilbaud Jan 2023

Promoting Learning And Upskilling For Success (Plus): An Inclusive Excellence Framework To Facilitate Workplace Readiness Of Underrepresented Adult Learners (Uals), T. Christa Guilbaud, Patrick Guilbaud

Adult Education Research Conference

We propose Promoting Learning and Upskilling for Success, an inclusive excellence framework developed to help underrepresented adult learners gain the knowledge and competence needed for the modern workplace.


An Analysis Of The Representation Of Organizational Practices In A Tv Drama Of Korea: Implications Of Public Pedagogy For Critical Human Resource Development, Hanbyul Kim Jan 2023

An Analysis Of The Representation Of Organizational Practices In A Tv Drama Of Korea: Implications Of Public Pedagogy For Critical Human Resource Development, Hanbyul Kim

Adult Education Research Conference

This study aims to analyze a Korean TV drama for the purpose of addressing the ideological influences of popular culture on workers' practice in organizations.


Reimagining Doctoral Mentoring: Toward The Development Of Culturally Liberative Stem Faculty Doctoral Mentors, Cathy Howell, Marah Lambert, Edith Gnanadass, Lisa R. Merriweather Jan 2023

Reimagining Doctoral Mentoring: Toward The Development Of Culturally Liberative Stem Faculty Doctoral Mentors, Cathy Howell, Marah Lambert, Edith Gnanadass, Lisa R. Merriweather

Adult Education Research Conference

Using anti-Black racism and critical capital theory, this paper highlights findings of a meta-analysis based on research products developed from a qualitative multiple embedded case study of STEM doctoral mentoring and argues for the development of culturally liberative doctoral mentorship.


Introducing Critical Elements Of Cross-Cultural Scholarship Development: A Discussion Towards A Model, Qi Sun, Haijun Kang Jan 2023

Introducing Critical Elements Of Cross-Cultural Scholarship Development: A Discussion Towards A Model, Qi Sun, Haijun Kang

Adult Education Research Conference

Theorizing existing literature, we present a model outlining five essential elements to guide cross-cultural scholarship practices. A scenario showcases how to apply these elements to practical situations.


President Of Everything: Mothering During Covid, Edith Gnanadass, Alison Happel-Parkins, Katharina Azim, Keishana L. Barnes, Mary Hilgeman Neal Jan 2023

President Of Everything: Mothering During Covid, Edith Gnanadass, Alison Happel-Parkins, Katharina Azim, Keishana L. Barnes, Mary Hilgeman Neal

Adult Education Research Conference

This roundtable explores narrative data collected from seven women in the U.S. Midsouth about their mothering experiences during COVID-19. The focus will be on their socio-emotional and informal learning.


Adult Education (And Educators) And The Mental Health Crisis, Cheryl Zelle Jan 2023

Adult Education (And Educators) And The Mental Health Crisis, Cheryl Zelle

Adult Education Research Conference

The field of adult education needs to engage in deep reflection and discourse about adult educators’ role in responding to the mental health crisis in higher education.


Education For Sustainable Development: A Solution To Reduce Food Insecurities In Liberia, Krubah Sisuse Jan 2023

Education For Sustainable Development: A Solution To Reduce Food Insecurities In Liberia, Krubah Sisuse

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study is to explore how Education for Sustainable Development integrated into the current curriculum can reduce food insecurity among college and university students in Liberia.


Community Transformation: Asian American Community Leaders, Brian Ahn Jan 2023

Community Transformation: Asian American Community Leaders, Brian Ahn

Adult Education Research Conference

Utilizing in-depth interviews, theories, and concepts in analysis, this study examines how a group of Asian American leaders transformed their community politically, socially, and economically.


Counter-Hegemonic Pedagogy: Activism And The Life Of The Organic Intellectual, Mervin E. Chisholm Jan 2023

Counter-Hegemonic Pedagogy: Activism And The Life Of The Organic Intellectual, Mervin E. Chisholm

Adult Education Research Conference

The continuing search for counter-hegemonic pedagogy is underscored. Aspects of the search are brought into the conversation and useful approaches for advancing emancipatory pedagogy are offered and discussed.


The Effect Of Negative Learning-Related Emotions On Higher Education Faculty's Online Professional Development, Qian Wang, Haibo Gu, Xiaochen Lin Jan 2023

The Effect Of Negative Learning-Related Emotions On Higher Education Faculty's Online Professional Development, Qian Wang, Haibo Gu, Xiaochen Lin

Adult Education Research Conference

This research examined how faculty's negative learning-related emotions were associated with their technology acceptance and learning engagement in online professional development.


Piaac’S Role In Global Food Security: Evidence From Machine Learning-Based Feature Selection Across Three Major Food Security Indicators, Sneha Roy, Jeffrey Zacharakis Jan 2023

Piaac’S Role In Global Food Security: Evidence From Machine Learning-Based Feature Selection Across Three Major Food Security Indicators, Sneha Roy, Jeffrey Zacharakis

Adult Education Research Conference

The PIAAC country dataset for 36 countries is explored to understand its role in global food security, adding to its significance in sustainable development goal four, zero hunger.


Teacher Voice In Cycles For Iterative Improvement, Carissa Maddox Jan 2023

Teacher Voice In Cycles For Iterative Improvement, Carissa Maddox

Adult Education Research Conference

Teachers in a mixed-method action research study of cycles for iterative improvement reveal that increased teacher voice would lead to stronger commitments and the likelihood of follow through.


Vamos Juntos: Immigrants’ Organization Asserting Power Through Adult Learning?, Rola Tarek Mohamed Jan 2023

Vamos Juntos: Immigrants’ Organization Asserting Power Through Adult Learning?, Rola Tarek Mohamed

Adult Education Research Conference

Through the textual analysis of the curriculum of ICE Out of PA campaign, this roundtable explores politicization processes of adult learners in an immigrants' rights organization in Philadelphia, PA.


The Fear Of Flying: Reflections On Retirement, Jeffrey Zacharakis Jan 2023

The Fear Of Flying: Reflections On Retirement, Jeffrey Zacharakis

Adult Education Research Conference

I explore how I have defined adult education through my actions and decisions, how has adult education defined who I am, and how has adult education changed during my career.


Facilitating Online Communities For Educators, Managers, And Leaders, Lily Drabkin Jan 2023

Facilitating Online Communities For Educators, Managers, And Leaders, Lily Drabkin

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores strategies for promoting social learning among adult peers in online classrooms and workspaces. It examines the challenges faced by facilitators and leaders in fostering social learning in an increasingly digital context and offers solutions for overcoming these challenges.


Analysis Of Online Non-Formal Education Of Social Movement Organization, Junghyun Kim Jan 2023

Analysis Of Online Non-Formal Education Of Social Movement Organization, Junghyun Kim

Adult Education Research Conference

This study aims to reveal what kinds of cognition, practices, epistemology, and identity activists encourage people to take through online education of the social movement organization, Extinction Rebellion Academy UK.


An Integrative Literature Review Of Organizational Learning Culture And Performance, Sumi Lee Jan 2023

An Integrative Literature Review Of Organizational Learning Culture And Performance, Sumi Lee

Adult Education Research Conference

Despite intense interest in the correlation between organizational learning and performance in the HRD field, few attempts have been made to review and critiques to synthesize the current literature. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of learning organizational culture and performance using the integrative literature review method. The authors then provide a critique of the state of the organizational learning culture literature and outline targeted suggestions to guide practice and future empirical, theoretical work.


Adult E-Learning Issues In Middle East Educational Organizations Due To Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Recommendations, Omniya Mohamed, Junghwan Kim Jan 2023

Adult E-Learning Issues In Middle East Educational Organizations Due To Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Recommendations, Omniya Mohamed, Junghwan Kim

Adult Education Research Conference

This article reviews studies on the critical issues and challenges that adult e-learning faces in the educational sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown of educational organizations has forced a shift to distance learning, requiring a radical change in instructional methods. The article examines the post-pandemic learning issues that educational organizations may encounter due to the enforced e-learning process and provides recommendations for Educational Human Resources Development practitioners to overcome these challenges. A systematic literature review was conducted and analyzed to identify factors that affect adult learning during the pandemic, and the article suggests interventions that EHRD practitioners can …