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Leadership & Institutional Change

• Overview
• Field Guide to Academic Leadership
• Readings:
  • Changing Higher Education: Realistic Goal or Wishful Thinking?
  • Leadership and Change
  • Critical Components of Departmental Success
  • Effecting Transformation and Institutional Change
  • The Human Dimension: Observations About The Change Process
  • The Institutional Change Agency: The Expanding Role of Academic Support Centers
  • Transforming the Environment for Learning: A Crises of Quality
  • Utilizing America's Most Wasted Resource
• Change:
  • Defining Change
  • First- and second-order change
  • Reasons to Change
    with recommended readings on the urgency for change
  • Requisites for Change
  • More on Barriers to Change
• Additional recommended readings and websites

Faculty Rewards & Scholarship

• Overview
• Readings:
  • Tenure and Promotion: the next iteration
  • Priorities and the tenure and promotion process
• Characteristics of a quality reward system
• Frequently asked questions: resources
• Guidelines & Checklists
  • Institutional priorities and faculty rewards: an administrative checklist
  • Departmental statement on promotion and tenure
  • School/college statement on promotion and tenure
  • Defining faculty work: common features of disciplinary statements
• Recommended readings and websites

Learners & Learning

• Recommended readings & websites

Curriculum, Course, and Program Design and Assessment

• Readings:
  • Accountability and Academic Innovation: Don't Forget the Registrar
  • Case Study: Flexible Credit and Continuous Registration Meeting the needs for new instructional formats
  • Curriculum Review
  • Designing a College Curriculum
• Additional recommended readings & websites

Using Technology to support learning

• Recommended readings & websites

Assessment: monitoring performance and quality

• Readings:
  • Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education: Some concepts and principles
• Additional recommended readings & websites

Professional Development of Academic Leaders, Faculty and Staff Members

• Readings:
  • Faculty Development in Higher Education
• Additional recommended readings & websites