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Are You Blue? Personality, Communication, And Leadership, Hillary Gleason
Are You Blue? Personality, Communication, And Leadership, Hillary Gleason
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This workshop will identify participants' dominant personality styles utilizing the True Colors questionnaire developed by Don Lowry in 1978. To that end, there will be a discussion on each color's communication and leadership strengths, weaknesses, and stressors. This is a fun activity that requires movement and most people enjoy. Finally, participants will be paired up with rotating partners and given a departmental chair scenario wherein they need to communicate and lead by utilizing what they have learned about dealing with the personality types of the colors. This exercise will help participants develop a strategic approach to their communication in order …
Embracing The Tension: A New/Ancient Approach To Problem Solving, Rick Olsen
Embracing The Tension: A New/Ancient Approach To Problem Solving, Rick Olsen
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This workshop will illuminate four important concepts and approaches to problem solving and problem navigation. Participants will then work individually and collectively around problems of shared interest to deepen their understanding of these concepts. The running example by the facilitator will be faculty retirements.
Focus: The Development Of A Community Of Academic Leaders, Lina Prada Angarita, Nayibe Rosado Mendinueta, Katina Katinac@Uninorte.Edu.Co
Focus: The Development Of A Community Of Academic Leaders, Lina Prada Angarita, Nayibe Rosado Mendinueta, Katina Katinac@Uninorte.Edu.Co
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This presentation reports the development of a community of practice for academic leaders in Colombia, South America. Document analysis from 2016 to 2020 helped to characterize the nature of the activities, the purposes, the products and gains. There is evidence of a change of purpose, agency and awareness.
The Department Chair And Creative Leadership, Julia Hovanec
The Department Chair And Creative Leadership, Julia Hovanec
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Leading a department in the ever-changing and, at times, tumultuous landscape of higher education calls for creative problem-solving and divergent thinking. Participants will engage in specific creative leadership strategies using creativity as a reflective practice and as a means to lead boldly. The goals are to spur change while cultivating an inclusive department.
College Reconfiguration: Building Faculty Support, Maureen E. Wilson, Dawn M. Shinew, Tracy L. Huziak-Clark, Deborah Wooldridge
College Reconfiguration: Building Faculty Support, Maureen E. Wilson, Dawn M. Shinew, Tracy L. Huziak-Clark, Deborah Wooldridge
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Following a year-long discussion, deliberation, and feedback process, faculty and staff in the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University voted overwhelmingly in support of reconfiguring from five schools and one department to three schools. We discuss our journey and outline the initial benefits, challenges, and lessons of this new configuration.
How To Retain Your Best Faculty Members, Jeff Buller
How To Retain Your Best Faculty Members, Jeff Buller
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
As department chairs, we devote a great deal of time and energy to recruiting excellent faculty members, but we spend far less time and energy trying to retain them. Superb college professors are vital to a department’s success, but they are also highly competitive in the marketplace. They have options and, if they begin to think that they can do better (financially or otherwise) elsewhere or even outside of academia, they’ll start looking elsewhere. In this best practices workshop, we’ll explore how to apply certain strategies to our work at the departmental level so as to increase the likelihood that …
The First 100 Days As An Academic Department Chair, Dr. Sara Rutledge
The First 100 Days As An Academic Department Chair, Dr. Sara Rutledge
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
This session will highlight lessons learned from the presenter’s first 100 days as an academic department chairperson. Topics covered will include: daily operations, faculty, students, alumni, enrollment, retention, academic planning, assessment, accreditation, compliance, governmental relations, articulations, technology, communications, marketing, community engagement, data management, budgeting, reporting, event planning, and initiatives.
The Chairperson : Faculty, Administrator And Academic And Crisis Leader, Domenick J. Pinto
The Chairperson : Faculty, Administrator And Academic And Crisis Leader, Domenick J. Pinto
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
For 36 years, I have witnessed the evolution of the role of chair as economic, social and student climates emerge. My workshop will summarize the challenges that chairs must now face in 2023. The session will help relatively new and new chairs observe various scenarios and discuss how to problem solve them.
How Covid-19 Clarified My Role As Chair, Mark Urtel
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
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
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.
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Optimizing Course Offerings In A Science Department, Yu Kay Law
Optimizing Course Offerings In A Science Department, Yu Kay Law
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
We will discuss how enrollment data and faculty/advisor input can be used to maximize schedule efficiency in course offerings and providing for student success. We will also discuss how best to monitor and rearrange course schedules in light of actual enrollment.
Supporting Faculty, Staff, And Student-Parents Though Cognitive, Emotional, And Behavioral Engagement, Beth Kania-Gosche, Kathryn Northcut
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
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
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 …
Building A Community Of Practice Among Online Edd Students, Linda Lopez-George
Building A Community Of Practice Among Online Edd Students, Linda Lopez-George
Adult Education Research Conference
To address feelings of isolation among online doctoral students an action research paradigm explored a virtual community of practice with computer-mediated communication tools integrated in the mixed methods study.
Piaac’S Role In Global Food Security: Evidence From Machine Learning-Based Feature Selection Across Three Major Food Security Indicators, Sneha Roy, Jeffrey Zacharakis
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.
Leadership For Sustainability: A Case Study Of A University Research Center, Christiana Horn, Junghwan Kim
Leadership For Sustainability: A Case Study Of A University Research Center, Christiana Horn, Junghwan Kim
Adult Education Research Conference
Research centers provide benefits to an institution, but they struggle with funding. This paper presents how leaders and boards guide a university research center for sustainable organizational development.
Adult Education (And Educators) And The Mental Health Crisis, Cheryl Zelle
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.
Building Partnerships Between Academic Departments And International Affairs, Butler Cain
Building Partnerships Between Academic Departments And International Affairs, Butler Cain
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Department chairs and other campus leaders who have an interest in promoting global awareness in their academic programs should partner with their university’s Office of International Affairs. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant upheaval in international education, so now is an opportune time to begin building strong relationships.
What Is Knowledge Management And How It Benefits Your Department, Kris Helge
What Is Knowledge Management And How It Benefits Your Department, Kris Helge
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenter and participants will define knowledge management (KM). They will also discuss emerging strategies and best practices regarding KM that benefit an academic department, and examine how effective KM systems help traverse unpredictable challenges such as COVID-19. Additionally, they scrutinize how to preserve, pass along, and securely store vital data, information, and knowledge; and how KM prevents information silos, and information loss.