Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force provides practical guidance on how Appreciative Inquiry can be applied in higher education and make an impact on the next generation of positive change makers.
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This book offers a how-to resource for campus leaders who want to take a strategic approach to creating change within the university and in relation to the community.
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This book helps chairs, deans, and evaluation committee members understand what they need to know and do when participating in faculty reviews and evaluations.
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Those who lead community colleges and those who aspire to lead them will discover keen insights from this frank discussion of the particular issues that are unique to community college administration.
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In this concise, practical guide, Penelepe Hunt shows the vital role that academic leaders play in raising funds.
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In this important resource, Dr. Fleming, a noted expert in the field of minority retention, draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career.
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This practical book for chairs and deans offers a reference of “what to do” proactively so that departments function effectively.
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This guide provides an overview of and a rationale for the recent shift in general education curricular design, a sense of how this shift can affect a faculty member’s teaching, and a sense of how all of this might impact course and student assessment.
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Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance gives voice to faculty and reveals the myriad of personal and professional issues faculty face over the span of their academic careers.
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Leading the Learner-Centered Campus provides leaders with a framework for examining their work and offers specific strategies for beginning the task of critically studying habitual practices in order to make every aspect of their work intentional.
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Learner-Centered Teaching shows how to tie teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to the content delivery alone.
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This book gives academic leaders new insights and practical tools, as well as language and strategies, for fostering a more constructive leadership style that plays to the strengths rather than the weaknesses of their institutions.
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This book is designed as a practical resource that reviews some of the most helpful approaches and exercises that teachers use when working with adult learners.
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In Reframing Academic Leadership, Lee G. Bolman and Joan V. Gallos offer higher education leaders a provocative and pragmatic guide.
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Servant Leadership for Higher Education contains leadership principles and strategies and is based on research and best practice.
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Introducing a new way to think about higher education, learning, and technology that prioritizes the benefits of the human dimension.
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The Department Chair Primer provides the practical information that chairs need to do their jobs well.
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Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition of the classic book The Essential Department Chair now incorporates many timely topics such as departmental ethics and politics, accounting for sponsored research, and addressing staff conflicts.
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The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation, and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future.
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In this book the authors offer both design specifications for a learner-centered approach to curriculum as well as practical recommendations for implementation and assessment.
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The Mobile Academy contains theoretical and practical guidance on the ways mobile devices can be used most effectively in higher education.
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In this concise, highly practical book, Christian Hansen shows department chairs how to set priorities, create a time budget and log, harness technology to assist in time management, and make self-care a priority.
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From the Inter-generational Mentoring Community project, which develops the next generation of academic leaders, comes formation mentoring, a process to enable faculty to recover, sustain, and further develop a sense of vocation, mission, and purpose.
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This book uses selected performance criteria benchmarks to help undergraduate programs define their educational missions and goals and to document their effectiveness.
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Kent Crookston provides a practical, focused, on-the-ground approach to help chairs learn to deal with challenging colleagues.
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