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Full-Text Articles in Education
Review: Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics, And Spirituality, Deryl R. Leaming
Review: Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics, And Spirituality, Deryl R. Leaming
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A book review of Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics, and Spirituality by John B. Bennett.
Benchmarking Succession Planning & Executive Development In Higher Education, Jonathon Clunies
Benchmarking Succession Planning & Executive Development In Higher Education, Jonathon Clunies
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Higher education has historically been slow to adopt many corporate management processes. Succession planning is an especially difficult concept to apply in academia due to dramatic cultural differences between the boardroom and the campus. College and universities often have complex and sometimes bureaucratic procedures for hiring compared with many business corporations (Rosse & Levin, 2003). In a tightening economic and growing competitive climate, innovative colleges and universities are re-examining whether succession planning, coupled with executive development, could be adapted for more cost effective transitions of power and authority.
Faculty Learning Communities And Teaching Portfolios As A Mentoring Model, Andrea C. Wade
Faculty Learning Communities And Teaching Portfolios As A Mentoring Model, Andrea C. Wade
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Beginning a career in college or university teaching can be a terrifying exercise in trial and error. Unlike elementary and secondary school teachers, many college faculty members begin their teaching careers with little or no formal preparation in pedagogy. Despite being well-versed in the content discipline, faculty members in their first few semesters of teaching often lack access to the kind of frequent assessment and mentoring that would shorten the learning curve and enhance the experience for both instructor and student. Through the years, a number of different strategies have been proposed to foster interactions between college faculty members. Typically, …
Budget Woes In Higher Education: A Call For Leadership, Steven Graham
Budget Woes In Higher Education: A Call For Leadership, Steven Graham
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing leadership in the face of budget deficits in academia.
Engaged, But Not Heroic, Academic Leadership, John B. Bennett
Engaged, But Not Heroic, Academic Leadership, John B. Bennett
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Over the years, I have explored leadership challenges faced by department chairpersons and school deans. In this essay I reflect on some findings, noting that they also apply to other educational leaders such as faculty senate members and student affairs officers. Most mid-level leaders struggle with the tradition of defining leadership in terms of individualistic values and mythologies of seeing the leader in terms of the individualistic, heroic cowboy of the Western film and novel. Then I examine the position of institutional president. Here too some leaders aim to be heroic figures, like the fabled cowboy. Almost inevitably, their behaviors …
Table Of Contents - Fall 2004
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Academic Leadership Journal Fall 2004 table of Contents
Four Dimensions Of Leadership In The Problem-Solving Of Education Deans, Antonia Donofrio
Four Dimensions Of Leadership In The Problem-Solving Of Education Deans, Antonia Donofrio
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This study links personal attributes of deans of schools and colleges of education to the problem solving contexts in which they make decisions that affect the programs they serve. We describe the mix of intellect, emotion, social acumen, and moral attributes that deans draw upon when they respond to vignettes that capture the multifaceted nature of problem solving in their positions. This study is a continuation of research that attempts to identify characteristics of deans of education who have survived in their role. This is an important issue, as schools and colleges report difficulty in identifying deans who can meet …
Doing Business With The Bard, William "Skip" Boyer
Doing Business With The Bard, William "Skip" Boyer
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article using Shakespeare's words to demonstrate business management values.
Table Of Contents - Summer 2004
Table Of Contents - Summer 2004
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Academic Leadership Journal Summer 2004 table of contents.
An Examination Of Oral Communication Patterns And Emergent Groupings Among Faculty Governance Units, Michael Miller
An Examination Of Oral Communication Patterns And Emergent Groupings Among Faculty Governance Units, Michael Miller
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing decision making in higher education.
Review: Free The Beagle - A Journey To Destinae, Don Litzenberg
Review: Free The Beagle - A Journey To Destinae, Don Litzenberg
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A review of Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae by Roy H. Williams
How To Demoralize The Faculty: A Six-Step Program That Works, Howard B. Altman
How To Demoralize The Faculty: A Six-Step Program That Works, Howard B. Altman
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A satirical article discussing faculty morale.
The Challenges Of A New Department Chair: Success Despite Reality, Jeanneine P. Jones
The Challenges Of A New Department Chair: Success Despite Reality, Jeanneine P. Jones
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A narrative demonstrating the need for administrative training for department chairs.
Smile When You Call Me That…, William "Skip" Boyer
Smile When You Call Me That…, William "Skip" Boyer
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing the difficulties of communicating effectively through electronic means.
Adjuncts In The Academy: Ethical Issues, Rhonda L. Smith
Adjuncts In The Academy: Ethical Issues, Rhonda L. Smith
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing ethical issues relating to employing adjunct instructors.
I'Ve Got Vision And The Rest Of The World Wears Blinders . . ., James P. Evans
I'Ve Got Vision And The Rest Of The World Wears Blinders . . ., James P. Evans
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing the need for vision in leadership.
Some Tips To Help You Become A Better Writer: And Your Point Is What?, William "Skip" Boyer
Some Tips To Help You Become A Better Writer: And Your Point Is What?, William "Skip" Boyer
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing the importance of developing good writing skills.
The Fictive Characteristics Of Effective Educational Leaders, Jeff Ershler
The Fictive Characteristics Of Effective Educational Leaders, Jeff Ershler
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing the characteristics of effective leaders within education.
Leadership, Ethics, And Philosophy, John B. Bennett
Leadership, Ethics, And Philosophy, John B. Bennett
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing ethics within academic culture.
Reading Between The Lines Of The Obituary For Nyuonline, Jared Bleak
Reading Between The Lines Of The Obituary For Nyuonline, Jared Bleak
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing the ramifications of the closure of NYUonline.
Web-Enhanced Instruction: A Mixed Bag Of Contradictions And Possibilities For Doctoral Education, Carol Mullen
Web-Enhanced Instruction: A Mixed Bag Of Contradictions And Possibilities For Doctoral Education, Carol Mullen
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This article explores some of the contradictions and possibilities of web-enhanced learning through the qualitative analysis of a pedagogical experiment. The parameters for this study are, broadly, doctoral education and, specifically, one doctoral course. However, extrapolations beyond these lenses are ventured.
Table Of Contents - Spring 2004
Table Of Contents - Spring 2004
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Academic Leadership Journal Spring 2004 Table of Contents
Table Of Contents - Winter 2004
Table Of Contents - Winter 2004
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Academic Leadership Journal Winter 2004 table of contents.
Academic Honesty And The "Millennials", Timothy Quinnan
Academic Honesty And The "Millennials", Timothy Quinnan
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article exploring faculty difficulties with the Millenial generation.
Conducting Epidemiological Research In South Africa: Challenges In The Data Collection Process, Yegan Pillay, Alan J. Flisher
Conducting Epidemiological Research In South Africa: Challenges In The Data Collection Process, Yegan Pillay, Alan J. Flisher
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This article addresses the challenges faced by research supervisors and research assistants while collecting data to explore the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents in South Africa. The article focuses on budgetary constraints, interviewee expectations, moral issues, limited confidentiality, fatigue factors and racial issues that threatened the completion of the project. These challenges are examined from the emic-etic theoretical paradigm and the interactions between the research supervisors, the research assistants and the research participants are analyzed. The authors propose recommendations that can serve to prepare researchers who embark on conducting research in similar socio-cultural environments.
If Teachers “Were Congressmen:” A Satire, Doug Soderstrom
If Teachers “Were Congressmen:” A Satire, Doug Soderstrom
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A satirical article imagining if academics worked like United States politics.
Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Pastoral Care And Relevant Support Mechanism In The University Of North London, Ezendu Ifeanyi Ariwa
Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Pastoral Care And Relevant Support Mechanism In The University Of North London, Ezendu Ifeanyi Ariwa
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The dropout rate and academic progression of undergraduates in the business school was defined as very high. This definition has called for investigative procedures through basic testing techniques in selected Information Systems in Marketing modules taught in the business school. An evaluation framework was used with the intent of measuring the students? performance with reference to the level of support mechanism and resources utilised by the student. The research results will be used in enhancing and improving the resource provision and the best way to capture students needs and interest in order to minimise dropout rate and maximise achievement in …
Leadership In Higher Education: Implications For Leadership Development Programs, Mary Wisniewski
Leadership In Higher Education: Implications For Leadership Development Programs, Mary Wisniewski
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This article discusses the University of Wisconsin-Extension Administrative Leadership Program (EALP), a model leadership development program for faculty and staff in a variety of university extension settings including: Broadcasting and Media Innovations; Business and Manufacturing Education; Continuing Education; and, Cooperative Extension. The article describes how the program integrates theoretical and applied knowledge about leadership into the curriculum along with the development of specific leadership competencies and abilities. Finally, the article illustrates the outcomes of the leadership development program as perceived and described by both the participants and their supervisors.
Nurturing Faculty: An Old Concept?, Dee Mcgonigle, Kathleen Mastrian, Nedra Farcus, Renee M. Eggers, Linda Shoop
Nurturing Faculty: An Old Concept?, Dee Mcgonigle, Kathleen Mastrian, Nedra Farcus, Renee M. Eggers, Linda Shoop
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An article discussing the need for nurturing faculty.
Developing Leadership Skills, Gerald Gaither
Developing Leadership Skills, Gerald Gaither
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
An analysis of current leadership theory is presented, along with a summary of the major literature findings. Emphasis is placed on providing ideas which have practical as opposed to theoretical application. A sub-theme in the article is that leadership skills can be learned or taught, and the manuscript challenges institutions to implement leadership development programs, such as the Kellog Leadership Project.