Innovative strategies and fresh ideas to advance teaching, scholarship, and service

Academic Leader is a lively, informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. Our own experienced editors, along with contributors from university and college campuses across the country, examine current trends, challenges, and best practices.

Academic Leader helps you:

• Lead and manage change
• Build consensus and promote collaboration
• Promote faculty development on your campus
• Set academic priorities
• Champion your programs
• Evaluate faculty effectively and fairly

Published 12 times per year.

A MUST read for:

• Academic deans
• Department chairs/heads
• Provosts
• Academic vice presidents
• Program directors
• Others in academic leadership roles at your university or college

• 10 Most Recent Contributions
• Efficient Meetings, Effective Decisions
• Meeting Demand, Maintaining Quality: Developing an Online Degree Program
• Using Senior Exit Interviews to Improve Academic Programs
• Informal, Loosely Structured Groups Take on Big, Complex Issues
• Faculty Fellows Program Provides Incentives, Structure to Improve Teaching
• Managing Difficult Conversations
• Encouraging Faculty Leadership Development
• Curriculum Restructuring Provides Opportunities for Emerging Leaders
• A Post-Tenure Review Policy with Real Consequences
• What Types of Support Do Adjuncts Need?

• 10 Most Recent Contributions
• Meeting Demand, Maintaining Quality: Developing an Online Degree Program
• Instructor Strategies to Improve Online Student Retention
• Lessons Learned From an Online Service-Learning Pilot
• Service-Learning Online: Lessons Learned
• Managing High-Enrollment Online Courses
• Using Pencasts to Explain, Demonstrate, and Connect
• Blended Design: Mistakes and Recommendations
• Common Mistakes and Good Ideas for Blended Course Design
• Three Rapid e-Learning Tools to Consider
• Using Data to Improve Online Courses

• 10 Most Recent Contributions
• Discussion Board Audit—A Metacognitive, Wrap-up Assignment
• Using Self-Determination Theory to Improve Online Learner Motivation
• Six Ways to Avoid Crappy E-Learning
• Maintaining Rigor, Spontaneity in Asynchronous Online Case Studies
• Structure, Video Conferencing Help Group Work Succeed
• What Online Learners Want
• How to Manage Your Email Inbox
• Managing Online Discussions
• Five Pedagogical Practices to Improve Your Online Course
• Creating an Ethical Online Environment

• 10 Most Recent Contributions
• Working with Institutional Research to Make Data-Driven Decisions
• New Undocumented Immigrant Policy (DACA): Implications for Students and Institutions
• Lessons Learned From an Online Service-Learning Pilot
• Coordinating Planning and Implementation of Strategic Initiatives
• Encouraging Faculty Participation in Academic Advising
• How Does Temperament Affect Online Learner Success and Retention?
• Data-Driven Student Success
• Implementing High-Impact Learning
• Creating a Culture of Inquiry to Improve the Institution
• A Comprehensive Approach to Student Success