How to Evaluate Your Faculty Development Services
Faculty development is a nationwide phenomenon that emerged from the academic accountability movement in the early 1970s, yet rarely was there interest in evaluating the effectiveness of this effort—until now.
Online Format Saves Academic Program
In 2006, New York Institute of Technology’s graduate clinical nutrition program was in trouble: enrollments were way down, and the prospects for attracting more students were not good. Similar programs with lower tuition and in more convenient locations made NYIT’s program less appealing. It seemed that it was just a matter of time before the school pulled the plug on this program. In a last-ditch effort to save the program, the department decided to switch from face-to-face to online delivery to try to reach an untapped student market for the program.
Promoting Research While Advancing Instruction, Part 2
In Part 1, we examined several reasons why it’s important for universities to look at faculty work not in terms of the actions that are taken but rather in terms of the benefits that result. Of course, it’s one thing to say that changing how we view faculty roles can help promote research while advancing teaching; it’s another thing entirely to bring about such a massive change.
The Community Role and Challenges of a College Leader
Strong and innovative leadership collaborations keep the college in the community landscape. Today, the president and the college’s leadership team are invaluable resources to states and to the nation—they educate the many talented people who work in our industries, businesses, and civic sectors. Chief executive officers address the overall balance of education at their institutions by looking at community advisory council input, educational trends, and state needs.
The Four-Year Information Technology Plan: Listen to the Class of 2015
The process started with a casual discussion among my colleagues and was fueled by the ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010. It continued with conversations with my son, who happens to be a member of the class of 2014, and students in a freshman seminar that I teach on the topic of leadership. Distilled from these conversations are what I believe to be the five technology expectations of the class of 2015.
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