October 2004

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Realizing Faculty Leadership Potential: An Interview With William Julian
To meet the challenges of the increasingly complex and demanding role of a liberal arts college administrator, William Julian, provost and dean of the faculty at Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky, looks for and cultivates leadership in the faculty he hires. Academic Leader spoke with Julian about how he does this.

Lessons From Successful Female Leaders
Why do some women attain leadership positions in higher education while their seemingly equally qualified peers do not? This was the question at the center of two qualitative research studies conducted by April Flanagan, Sherry Loanna Sayles, and Martha Tack.

Phased Retirement: An Option Few Faculty Choose
Since the cap on the maximum retirement age for faculty has been lifted, higher education institutions have been experimenting with policies that provide incentives for older faculty to retire, including early and phased retirement.

Service Learning Engages Students, Revitalizes Faculty
When faculty adopt new teaching strategies, the focus is usually on the effects it has on students, but it can change the faculty as well.

Bulletin Board
“Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution”; “Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales”; “Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education”

The Scholarship of Administration: An Interview With Denise Doyle
Since Ernest Boyer’s seminal work <1>Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate was published in 1990, the notion of what types of work should be considered scholarship has expanded. Among these is administrative work. Academic Leader spoke with Denise Doyle, vice president for academic and student affairs at the University of the Incarnate Word, an institution that has begun to consider some administrative work as scholarship.