Your leadership philosophy encompasses your core values and beliefs that frame how you make decisions. Although you may not see yourself as a leader in your early career, building your leadership philosophy from the start of your professional life can help set you up to make intentional choices about your career trajectory. In this session, […]
Formerly director of special collections at the University of Virginia and Syracuse University, Christian Dupont joined Atlas Systems in 2008 to develop and promote Aeon, an online circulation and request workflow management system for special collections libraries and archives. A former chair of ACRL’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, he recently served on a task […]
Tracy currently serves as the academic advisor for University College students in online degree programs and coordinates all prior learning assessment initiatives including portfolio assessments for undergraduate and graduate students. She also directs the Finish Line program which assists students who earned 90 or more credit hours yet left the university before earning their degree. […]
Traditionally, most institutions have not made significant investments in either training or rigorous evaluation for contingent faculty. However, given the rising percentages of part-time instructors, it is increasingly crucial that deans and department chairs give thought to implementing evaluation methods that will encourage continued improvement of the quality of instruction in their adjunct-taught courses. For this […]
Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president of enrollment management at DePaul University, and Joseph Russo, director of student financial strategies at the University of Notre Dame, offer advice on assessing price sensitivity as you look to weather the next year. What No One Should Be Doing Boeckenstedt advises against one common scenario in which a cabinet […]
Rebecca Brandriff is an accomplished leader in finance and administration at NYU Steinhardt. She has played a pivotal role in the school’s success. As the Vice Dean of Administration and Finance since 2015, she oversees HR, Finance, Facilities, Strategic Initiatives, and IT and ensures operational excellence. With over 25 years of experience in higher education […]
Partnering with higher ed leaders to increase their influence and impact. Dorine is a leadership coach and consultant with over 30 years of experience in higher education and the law. Her coaching and consulting expertise is grounded in positive psychology, creative problem solving and education leadership literature as well as her extensive faculty and administrative […]
Empowering leaders and executives to successfully navigate change by turning challenges into opportunities, and to ascend the leadership ladder by providing unique perspectives to problem solving and personal branding. Christie Chung, PhD, is an Executive Director (aka CEO or Dean) of a multidisciplinary institute at an R1 University. Apart from this executive role, she has […]
Dr. Donald Pearl oversees extensive programs in tutoring, supplemental instruction, and academic coaching that serve more than 4,000 students each semester. He has been an academic administrator for 18 years, during which time he has held the positions of science chair, academic dean, and vice-president of academic affairs at several two year colleges. Prior to […]
Deans across higher education are tackling some of the biggest challenges yet. Take, for instance, declining student enrollments (and the reduced budgets that follow) and the low levels of faculty morale and engagement (which, in turn, lead to high turnover). Let’s face it—these are big problems that take a village to solve. And yet, you […]
