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Member Recommended Book: Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
From the most trusted voice on transition, a thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the classic guide to dealing with the human side of organisational change. Directed at managers and employees alike in today's business world, where constant change is the norm and mergers, redundancy, bankruptcy and re-structuring have become common phenomena. Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people that have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding changes.
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HELLO Community welcomes new Advisory Board Members
The Higher Education Leadership Learning Online Community is a peer led body whose mission is to provide an online collaborative environment where leaders of higher education provide mutual support and learn from each other to grow individual skills and knowledge,… Read More ›
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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.
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Article: 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… Read More ›
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Article: 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… Read More ›
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Article: 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… Read More ›
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Article: 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… Read More ›
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Article: 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… Read More ›
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Article: Strategically Managing Allocation of Faculty Lines and Types Across Departments and Colleges – A Risk Based Model
Ensuring that faculty resources are most effectively applied across the colleges and departments of the university is a very important responsibility of the Provost/VPAA. These decisions can have a big impact on a department and are therefore very closely watched,… Read More ›
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Article: Defining What, Where, and When We Want Students to Learn
The most important step to becoming a learning-centric organization and generating the greatest value-add for students is to clearly define the learning we expect of them. This requires the development of a unifying and hierarchical plan for student learning, specifying… Read More ›