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How Covid-19 Clarified My Role As Chair, Mark Urtel

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Presenter and participants will reflect on and share their academic chair experiences and subsequent yet significant leadership alterations due directly to COVID-19. These transformations may be long- or short-term but are exclusive to being a department chair.

A Chairpersons Guide To Managing Time And Stress, Christian K. Hansen

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

In this interactive workshop we discuss time and stress management specifically from the perspective of a department chairperson responsible for leading an academic department through numerous internal and external challenges. The focus will be on practical strategies for effective use of time, not only at a personal level, but also at a department wide level.

Navigating Your Department Post Pandemic With Creative Wellness, Krista Bridgmon, Elizabeth List

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Presenters will discuss and participants will practice creative counseling skills including mindfulness, empathy, effective questioning, reflecting emotion and goal setting which will assist the evolving work-life concerns of faculty, staff, and students following the pandemic.

Teaming Up To Reduce "Sludge": Practical Guidance For Process Improvement, Kevin Van Winkle Dr., Timothy Mottet Dr.

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Presenters will share and discuss best practices for faculty and administrative collaboration to reduce “sludge” (i.e. inefficiencies in university processes) as a way to increase faculty and staff morale.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Future Of Early College: An Interview With Dr. Leon Botstein, Dumaine Williams

Early College Folio

The first public, tuition-free Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) opened in Brooklyn in 2001. Today, an entire network of Bard Early Colleges operates in partnership with public school systems to offer students affordable access to higher education in a cohesive, engaging environment. Simultaneously, alternative takes on early college (Early College High Schools, dual enrollment, early entrance) have proliferated across the United States, providing even more opportunities for younger students to earn college credit.

In December 2022, the author, Dean of Bard Early College, sat down with Bard College President Leon Botstein to examine how the pandemic made new demands …

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 …

2023-02-23 Audit Committee Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda book of the Audit Committee of the Board of Regents held on February 23, 2023, which includes the approved meeting minutes of December 1, 2022.

2023-02-23 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of February 23, 2023 which includes the meeting minutes of the meeting held on December 1, 2022 and the special called Executive Committee meeting minutes of November 15, 2022.

A Phenomenological Study On The Informal Learning Experiences Of Female Mid-Level Administrators, Kathryn L. Curameng

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study is to identify and describe the informal leadership development experiences of female mid-level administrators in private nonprofit higher education.

Methodology: This phenomenological study identifies and describes the informal leadership development experiences of female mid-level administrators in private nonprofit higher education institutions in California. Respondents were selected based on specific criteria and recommendations of a sponsor. The researcher collected data through semi-structured interviews and observations of participants.

Findings: Examination of the qualitative data from interviews with 16 female mid-level administrators working in private nonprofit higher education yielded nine major findings. These included 2 unexpected …

A Conceptual Exploration Of Anti-Fragility In The Context Of Confucian Heritage Culture Education, Alwyn Lau

Journal of Research Initiatives

It is a common but not unrealistic stereotype of Asian students that educational success is a matter of personal identity and status. As such, achieving distinctions in as many subjects as possible (the popular target of becoming a ‘straight A’ student) is usually a non-negotiable objective nurtured by both parents and educators. Such an obsessive pursuit of academic excellence produces both laudable outcomes (e.g. the tendency of Asian students to outperform their counterparts) as well as dangerous ones (e.g. worrying rates of mental health problems). This theoretical paper hopes to apply the concept of anti-fragility developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, …