Academic Leader
Innovative strategies and fresh ideas to advance teaching, scholarship, and service
Our own experienced editors, along with contributors from university and college campuses across the country, examine current trends, challenges and best practices, helping to advance teaching, scholarship and service.
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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
- Evauluate faculty effectively and fairly
Academic Leader is a lively, informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching.
With each issue, Academic Leader newsletter tackles the topics on campus today that matter most to you, including:
- Curriculum
- Program assessment
- Faculty development
- Pedagogy
- Budgeting
- Leadership methods
- Conflict management
- Promotion and tenure
- Personnel policies
- Distance education
- Adjunct faculty
- Faculty evaluation
Each newsletter issue is filled with thought-provoking articles.
Some will challenge your assumptions while others will confirm your suspicions.
All of the articles lend valuable perspective on the work you do on your campus.
Recently in Academic Leader:
- Organizing Principle and Strategic Framework Help Prioritize Programs and Assessment
- Overhauling the Core Curriculum the Lynn University Way
- Supporters and Critics: Both Are Essential to Change
- Clock Time Versus Piece Work in Higher Education
- How Strategic Plans and Assessment Data Can Help Fundraising
- Mission-Centered Budgeting in Times of Fiscal Stress and Uncertainty
- Capstone Courses: Many Options
- Data-Driven Student Success
- Decision-Making for Sustainable Change
- Leadership Succession Planning in Higher Education
- Management by Manipulation
- Managing Effective Meetings
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