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Why So Touchy? Navigating Physical Touch In The Performing Arts, Joseph Skillen, Gretchen Alterowitz, Michelle Reinken Mar 2023

Why So Touchy? Navigating Physical Touch In The Performing Arts, Joseph Skillen, Gretchen Alterowitz, Michelle Reinken

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Physical touch is endemic to instruction in the Performing Arts. Two Performing Arts Chairs and the University’s Title IX Coordinator share approaches and solutions to navigating challenges resulting from the use of touch in student-instructor interactions.


The Academic Leadership Framework, Stefan Niewiesk, Gates Garrity-Rokous Apr 2022

The Academic Leadership Framework, Stefan Niewiesk, Gates Garrity-Rokous

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

The Academic Leadership Framework helps unify and direct efforts to improve academic leadership, while providing a foundation for assessment, training, and collaboration. Its six domains (Values and Behaviors, People, Decision making, Goal setting, Organization, Oversight) provide foundational skills and experiences for the development, assessment, and improvement of academic administrative work.


Promoting Chair Succession Through Development, Empowerment, And Encouragement, Christopher Benedetti Mar 2017

Promoting Chair Succession Through Development, Empowerment, And Encouragement, Christopher Benedetti

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

To ensure the stability of the department, department chairs should prioritize the identification and formation of potential successors. For this interactive session, a model and related strategies, supported by real examples, will be discussed for developing, empowering, and encouraging faculty to become ready to assume the role of department chair.


Challenges For Women Department Chairs, Laurie J. Patterson, Amy Kirschke, Pamela Seaton, Leslie Hossfeld Mar 2016

Challenges For Women Department Chairs, Laurie J. Patterson, Amy Kirschke, Pamela Seaton, Leslie Hossfeld

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Presenters will discuss issues specific to women in a leadership position, primarily as a department chair and work with participants for ideas on how to succeed as a female administrator.