Online Training

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Gain in-depth knowledge and prepare for the fall semester with hands-on, intensive workshops for department chairs:

Program Assessment and Curriculum Review
June 14, 2012
12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT

The Highly Effective Department Chair
June 21, 2012
12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT

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BOOKS

FERPA Clear and Simple: The College Professional’s Guide to Compliance

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliance has always been challenging due to complex regulatory language and exposure to risk. However, institutions that do not comply are in jeopardy of losing federal funding. Accessible and user-friendly, FERPA Clear and Simple clarifies the regulations and provides a ready reference for compliance and problem solving. This need-to-have guide offers critical and relevant material (including the 2008 Amendments) from a new perspective to help staff in student affairs, academic departments, and administrative support positions understand and comply with FERPA guidelines.

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JOURNAL

This quarterly periodical for department chairs and deans features practical advice, useful information, and up-to-date resources. Its applications, techniques, case studies, strategies, and guidance are directly relevant to today's academic leaders.

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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

Tim Hatfield

Tim Hatfield, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of counselor education at Winona State University. Retired in July 2010 after thirty years (twenty-two as department chair), he returned for an eight-month stint as assistant to the dean of the College of Education to help with the launch of a major initiative to reform teacher education. He received both his A.B. (1967) and Ed.M. (1969) degrees from Harvard, after which he served as a school counselor at the University of Chicago Laboratory School and the Northfield Mount Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, MA, until 1976. His Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota was awarded in 1980, after which he assumed his position in the graduate faculty at Winona State. His specialty areas include stress management, lifespan development, and school counseling. The author of one book and more than thirty articles and book chapters, he also is a frequent presenter regionally and nationally on stress management, burnout prevention, and staff renewal issues. His 1999 completion of a major stress management website (www.winona.edu/stress) reflects the integration of many of the major concepts that he has introduced to his students, colleagues, and workshop participants over the years. He is married to Susan Rickey Hatfield, Ph.D., also at Winona State, and they have four children from ages seventeen to thirty.