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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 …
Using Data To Inform Decision-Making: A Focus On Department & Program Enrollments, Craig D. Hlavac
Using Data To Inform Decision-Making: A Focus On Department & Program Enrollments, Craig D. Hlavac
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Department chairs are frequently required to make decisions on behalf of their department. Most significant decisions require input from department stakeholders (e.g. faculty, staff, students) yet the responsibility for guiding this process – including gathering and presenting relevant data – generally resides with the chairperson. Determining what data is needed for each situation can be challenging, especially when considering enrollments. This session will provide current and prospective chairpersons with practical suggestions for seeking relevant data points to assess and guide department initiatives with a specific focus on enrollments. Simple, measurable recruitment and retention strategies will also be discussed. Participants will …
Recruiting For Your Department: The Role Of The Chair, Jennifer Dennis, Stephanie Boss, Mary Dzindolet, Lisa Huffman
Recruiting For Your Department: The Role Of The Chair, Jennifer Dennis, Stephanie Boss, Mary Dzindolet, Lisa Huffman
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The chairs of an Education, Sports & Exercise Science, and Psychology Departments, and their former dean, share how they have been able to implement innovative recruitment strategies from an academic standpoint to increase enrollment in their departments and in the School of Graduate and Professional Studies.
Transcending Institutions And Borders: 21st Century Digital Scholarship At K-State, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Ryan Otto, Charlene N. Simser
Transcending Institutions And Borders: 21st Century Digital Scholarship At K-State, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Ryan Otto, Charlene N. Simser
Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings
Digital scholarship of the 21st century transcends institutions and borders with its freedom from print and physical locations. This case study reviews aspects of establishing a sustainable digital scholarship center, supporting open access through the institutional repository (K-State Research Exchange - K-REx) and an open access publishing platform (New Prairie Press – NPP) along with other outreach efforts. The Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship (CADS) at K-State Libraries serves our campus community, but digital scholarship extends K-State's impact far beyond Manhattan, Kansas. Highlighting the scholarship at our campus is only one small piece of the landscape. Collaboration …
Inspiring Confidence And Professional Growth In Leadership: Student Perspectives On University-District Partnership Master's Academies, Pilar Mejía, Samrie Devin, Heather Calvert
Inspiring Confidence And Professional Growth In Leadership: Student Perspectives On University-District Partnership Master's Academies, Pilar Mejía, Samrie Devin, Heather Calvert
Educational Considerations
School leadership matters when discussing teacher effectiveness and student performance, and preparation programs need to graduate principals with the skills necessary to lead schools for tomorrow. The traditional approach to preparing educational leaders is no longer getting the job done. It is going to take everyone working together to better prepare those who will lead the schools we need.
Water Quality 101: Professor Aims To Change Discussion Of Humanity’S Value Of Water, Stephanie Jacques
Water Quality 101: Professor Aims To Change Discussion Of Humanity’S Value Of Water, Stephanie Jacques
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Recycling, composting and conserving are routine for environmentally conscious people like Walter Dodds, Kansas State University distinguished professor of biology. But Dodds, an ecologist, takes it one step further.
Strength In Numbers, Megan Saunders
Strength In Numbers, Megan Saunders
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Early-career faculty find connections, confidence during research funding trip.
A Demographic Analysis Of The Impact Of Property Tax Caps On Indiana School Districts, Marilyn A. Hirth, Christopher Lagoni
A Demographic Analysis Of The Impact Of Property Tax Caps On Indiana School Districts, Marilyn A. Hirth, Christopher Lagoni
Educational Considerations
In 2008, the Indiana legislature passed and the governor signed into law House Enrolled Act No. 1001, now referred to as Public Law 146-2008, which capped Indiana school districts’ ability to raise revenues from the local property tax without local voter approval.
K-12 Categorical Entitlement Funding For English Language Learners In California: An Intradistrict Case Study, Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Irina Okhremtchouk
K-12 Categorical Entitlement Funding For English Language Learners In California: An Intradistrict Case Study, Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Irina Okhremtchouk
Educational Considerations
The K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse in the United States. In particular, the number of English Language Learners (ELLs) rose from 4.7 million in 1980 to 11.2 million in 2009, more than doubling from 10% to 21% of the student population.
A Practical Method Of Policy Analysis By Considering Productivity-Related Research, James L. Phelps
A Practical Method Of Policy Analysis By Considering Productivity-Related Research, James L. Phelps
Educational Considerations
The basic notion underlying schooling is rather simple: Hire teachers to instruct students. From there, the tasks become more complicated. How many teachers should be employed? What assignments should the teachers be given, in the classroom or in a supporting role? What assistance should teachers receive from aides or volunteers?
A Canonical Analysis Of Successful Vs. Unsuccessful High Schools: Accommodating Multiple Sources Of Achievement Data In School Leadership, Robert C. Knoeppel, James S. Rinehart
A Canonical Analysis Of Successful Vs. Unsuccessful High Schools: Accommodating Multiple Sources Of Achievement Data In School Leadership, Robert C. Knoeppel, James S. Rinehart
Educational Considerations
What distinguishes successful schools from unsuccessful schools? This question has relevance for the practice of educational leadership as well as the preparation of leaders.
The Newest Offering In The Higher Education Leadership Movement: A Model Campus-Wide Residential Program For Faculty And Staff ., Susan M. Scott, Mary Hale Tolar
The Newest Offering In The Higher Education Leadership Movement: A Model Campus-Wide Residential Program For Faculty And Staff ., Susan M. Scott, Mary Hale Tolar
Educational Considerations
The purpose of this article is to review the recent emphases by institutions of higher education on leadership development and to describe a model program for a population not yet widely addressed: faculty and staff.
Funding Michigan K-12 Adequacy Without Rewarding Inefficiency, James J. Walters
Funding Michigan K-12 Adequacy Without Rewarding Inefficiency, James J. Walters
Educational Considerations
Taxpayers and politicians expect public schools to exercise stewardship and wisdom regarding the use of resources entrusted to them. These public expectations approximate what economists refer to as technical efficiency.
Teacher Compensation And School Quality: New Findings From National And International Data., Zhijuan Zhang, Deborah A. Verstegen, Hoe Ryoung Kim
Teacher Compensation And School Quality: New Findings From National And International Data., Zhijuan Zhang, Deborah A. Verstegen, Hoe Ryoung Kim
Educational Considerations
High quality education is critical to both the individual and the nation. At the country level, as Ireland’s minister for education and science, put it, “The never ending search for competitive advantage in the global knowledge economy has led all public policymakers to focus on education as a key factor in strengthening competitiveness, employment and social cohesion.”