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Member Recommended Book: The Provost’s Handbook: The Role of the Chief Academic Officer
The Provost’s Handbook: The Role of the Chief Academic Officer (Click for more information and to purchase from Amazon).
In seventeen essays written by some of the most successful chief academic officers in the United States,
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Member Resource File Shared: Faculty Appointment Guidelines
Faculty Appointment Guidelines (Click for more information and to download.)
File Type: Guidelines
Description: Provides
a tabular classification of faculty appointment types correlated with
educational and workload expectations, appointment duration, teaching loads,
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Member Recommended Internet Article: Another New Provost?
Description: An interesting faculty perspective on the impact of rapid turnover of the Provost at a university.
Publishing Organization: The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Video Overview of the Higher Education Leadership Learning Online Community
A great video overview of the HELLO Community to help potential and new members understand the rich resource sharing and networking capability of the site.Bookmark1
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Published: Managing Course, Program, and Faculty Information to Help Students Make Better Enrollment Decisions
Getting students enrolled in the right programs and courses at the right time can have a big impact on their success. Students often select majors and enroll in a course with a set of expectations that are very different from reality.
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Published: Determining if the Students Learned what We Expected – Assessing Outcomes
To ensure that we are adding value in learning, and acting as a learning centric institution, we must be willing to determine if students are achieving our learning goals and outcomes – adjusting to improve success rates where possible. To accomplish this,
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Published: Facilitating Learning
Facilitating learning is a broader topic than teaching. It includes designing effective and efficient programs, selection of appropriate course content and materials, the design of the course, classroom and online dynamics, and the art of content delivery in many different venues and with many different teaching styles.
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New service implemented – Directory of vendors and service providers for higher education.
The HELLO Community has implemented a new member fed, rated, and commented directory of vendors and service providers that serve higher education. The directory is organized into hierarchical categories that make it easy to explore. Anyone can read the directory and members are encouraged to add new entries,
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Published: Ensuring Students are Prepared to Be Successful Learners
Academic preparation is the biggest predictor of success for students in higher education. We must learn to strengthen students’ focus on preparation by defining the preparation that will lead to success and by rewarding and reinforcing an academic culture focused on preparation.
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Published: Developing Equitable and Effective Faculty Teaching, Advising, Service and Research Workload Policy and Practices
The largest single expense at a university is faculty salaries. It is the responsibility of the administration to ensure that faculty human resources are managed well from fiscal, resource optimization, and faculty morale perspectives. To achieve this requires a clear definition,