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Career Trajectory, Aspiring Deans, John Buckwalter, Sheila Pineres, Kelli Brown

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

While higher educational institutions have well developed processes to assist faculty as they progress through their academic careers, most colleges and universities provide little formal assistance to department heads and chairs considering career progression to a deanship. This interactive session will provide practical guidance in an interactive format to those contemplating pursuing an academic dean position.

Conducting Difficult Performance Counseling Sessions, Mary Lou Higgerson

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Department chairs are responsible for reviewing the performance of individual faculty and staff members. This task can be especially difficult and uncomfortable when a faculty or staff member is not meeting performance expectations. In this session, participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice some specific communication strategies for conducting difficult performance counseling sessions with individuals who are not meeting performance expectations.

Leveraging Diversity: The Department Chair’S Transformative Role, Edna Chun

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This workshop focuses on concrete research-based approaches and strategies to strengthen department chair leadership in the area of diversity. Since most of the chair literature is silent on this topic, the workshop draws on the extensive research findings of Edna Chun and Alvin Evans’ book, The Department Chair as Transformative Leader: Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education (Stylus, 2015) to share best practices and models that illuminate the role of the chair in building diversity in the academic department.

Department Budgeting And Resources, Don Chu

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

In this interactive session, we will look at the three keys to managing the budget and increasing resources for your department. First, chairs need to understand their budgets and how budgets are constructed. Next, chairs can manage their budgets, increase department productivity and work with their deans to invest resources in the department. Lastly, chairs can take steps to increase resource flow into their department

Chair Talks, Tim Hatfield, Susan Hatfield, Christian Hansen

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Dr. Susan Hatfield, "WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU BEFORE YOU BECOME CHAIR"

Some brief insights related to hindsight to promote foresight.

Dr. Tim Hatfield, "BEING THERE FOR THE DEPARTMENT WITHOUT LOSING YOURSELF"

Few chairs ever assume that position with a deep understanding of the multiple stresses inherent in the role. This talk will address a number of ways to successfully manage the inevitable stresses that chairs face every day.

Dr. Christian Hansen, "RIGHT ON TIME: STAYING ON TOP OF THINGS WHEN EVERYBODY WANTS SOMETHING FROM YOU"

Department Chairs often find themselves buried in demands from faculty, administration, students and outside …

Five Macro Trends And Their Impacts On Higher Education, Mark Putnam

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

understanding marketplace demographics, piecing together economic puzzles, processing governance and the legitimacy of leadership, developing technology and the learner, and recognizing ambiguities of institutions and society.

Be An ‘Appy’ Department Chair, Roger Mchaney

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Without a doubt, higher education has been impacted by recent technological changes. Faculty, students, and administrators are facing challenges and opportunities related to the spread of social media; the ubiquity of smart phones and tablet devices; and, the growth of wireless communications.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of February 3, 2016 meeting.

New Chair Alliance, Katherine Frank, Daniel Wheeler

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

• Transition to new roles and responsibilities
• Satisfactions from being a chair – what makes a difference
• Scoping out the work for the whole year
• Managing the everyday
• Planning for the future
• Your development

Quarterly Meeting Agenda & Packet, Wku Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Agenda and packet of items to be reviewed and approved at quarterly meeting of the WKU Board of Regents.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding Confucius Institute, student evaluation of faculty, academic program review and textbook adoption.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of January 13, 2016 meeting.

2016-2017 Catalog, Wku Graduate School

Graduate School

Graduate School catalog regarding admissions, curriculum and policies.

Using Spiral Dynamic Theory For Adult Civic Engagement Research And Social Justice Education, Lisa R. Brown

Adult Education Research Conference

Empirical civic engagement research based in a South American context. Participants included adult learner populations engaged in revolutionary protests that opposed private for-profit education in Chile. Findings were higher order Spiral Dynamic Theory thinking at the for-profits and lower civic engagement.

A Case Study Of Choices Of The Host University And Decisions To Stay Or Leave The U.S. Upon Graduation Of Chinese Adult And Traditional Students, Xi Lin, Hong Shi, Mingyu Huang

Adult Education Research Conference

Chinese students are the largest group among all the international students. Many factors motivate them to study in the U.S. and their decision to stay or leave the U.S. after graduation. However, limited research investigates these aspects by differentiating students into non-traditional students and traditional student groups. As a result, this study conducted individual interviews to examine: 1) factors that influence Chinese students’ (non-traditional students vs. traditional students) choices of the host college or university in the U.S.; and 2) their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. after graduation. Eleven Chinese students participated in this study, including seven female …

Theorizing From The Literature: Rural Nc African American Males Who Fail To Complete Early College, Joyce B. Valentine

Adult Education Research Conference

The African American male dropout rate remains horrific. Educational institutions need to revise their curriculum design and retention strategies. This study examines rural African American males who fail to complete high school using intersectionality and ecological systems theory.