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Title Managing Course, Program, and Faculty Information to Help Students Make Better Enrollment DecisionsExcerpt: 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. Providing richer and more relevant information can reduce these problems. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Explain the most important sources of course and program information available to students. • Develop a design document that clearly communicates the expected learning accomplishments and course structure… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), President’s Office Staff, Vice President Student Affairs Staff (VP, Assoc./Assist. VP, etc.) | ||
| Tags: Course Enrollment Management, Course Prospectus/Bulletin, Course Section Management, Curriculum Committee, End of Course Survey, Program Design, Syllabus, University Catalog, ePortfolio | ||
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Title Determining if the Students Learned what We Expected – Assessing OutcomesExcerpt: 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, we must convert our intuitive sense of accomplishment to explicit definitions and measures of learning. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Define common terms used in the assessment of student learning. • Define a useful scale to determine the student’s level of achievement… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Office Director’s Staff (Director, Assoc./Assist. Director, Coordinator, etc.) | ||
| Tags: Assessment, Capstone Assessment, Closing the Loop, College/School Learning Goals, Continuous Quality Improvement, Coures Learning Outcomes, Department Learning Goals, Direct Assessment, General Education, Honors Program, Indirect Assessment, Institutional Learning Goals, Learning Outcome Achievement Level, Liberal Education, Program Learning Outcomes, Value Added | ||
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Title Facilitating LearningExcerpt: 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. This article is a compilation of many interviews with faculty from many disciplines, providing powerful testimonies and detailed implementation strategies for what has worked well in their classrooms. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Enable students to participate… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Office Director’s Staff (Director, Assoc./Assist. Director, Coordinator, etc.), President’s Office Staff | ||
| Tags: Backward Course Design, Collaborative Learning, Competency Based Learning, Course Delivery Modalities, Course Design, Course Learning Outcomes, Course Resources, Experiential Learning, Facilitating Learning, Faculty Teaching, Flipping the Classroom, Game Based Learning, Inquiry Based Learning, Learner Focus, Learner Motivation, Learning Path, Lecturing, Metacognition, Modelling, Prior Learning Assessment, Problem Based Learning, Simulations | ||
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Title Ensuring Students are Prepared to Be Successful LearnersExcerpt: 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. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Design an introductory college curriculum and orientation process that will prepare students to transition successfully from high school, other higher ed institutions, or from the work environment. • Implement a new curricular planning process that is built… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), President’s Office Staff, Vice President Student Affairs Staff (VP, Assoc./Assist. VP, etc.) | ||
| Tags: Assessment, Co-Curricular Support, Coures Learning Outcomes, Course Learning Incomes, Course Sequencing, Curriculum Mapping, Flipping the Curriculum, Instructor Teaching Style, Learning Skills, Life Long Learning, Student Preparation, Student Success, Testing Preparation, Transfer Courses | ||
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Title Defining What, Where, and When We Want Students to LearnExcerpt: 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 institutional, college/school, program, and course learning goals and outcomes. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Explain the interrelationship between courses within a credential, General Education, Liberal Education, and Honor’s programs, at various degree levels. • Explain why learning goals, and their derivative learning outcomes, are… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Featured, Office Director’s Staff (Director, Assoc./Assist. Director, Coordinator, etc.), President’s Office Staff, Vice President Student Affairs Staff (VP, Assoc./Assist. VP, etc.) | ||
| Tags: Bloom's Taxonomy, College/School Learning Goals, Course Learning Outcomes, Course Sequencing, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Mapping, Degree Qualification Profile, Extracurricular Learning Outcomes, General Education, Honors Program, Institutional Learning Goals, Liberal Education, Program Learning Goals, Program Learning Outcomes, Student Learning Outcomes, Student Transition | ||
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Title Developing Equitable and Effective Faculty Teaching, Advising, Service, and Research Workload Policy and PracticesExcerpt: 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, communication, and implementation of workload policies and management practices in teaching, advising, research and scholarship. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Describe the different components of faculty workload, workload effort distributions, and how they are used in the faculty evaluation processes. • Describe how… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Featured, President’s Office Staff | ||
| Tags: Contact Hours, Credit Hours, Faculty Management, Faculty Overloads, Faculty Research/Scholarship, Faculty Service, Faculty Teaching, Faculty Workload, Human Resources, Student Advising, Team Teaching, Work-Life Balance, Workload Hours | ||
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Title Building a World-Class FacultyExcerpt: Building a World-class faculty requires that the institution hire the best faculty that it can, grow the knowledge, skills and effectiveness of existing faculty, retain the best and eliminate poor performers who are unwilling to grow. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Implement a process to build consensus on campus about the role faculty should play at the institution. • Design a rubric to aid faculty search committees in selecting the best candidate for the institution’s needs. • Develop a set of interview questions to… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Featured, President’s Office Staff | ||
| Tags: Campus climate, Committee Charge, Diversity, Faculty contract, Faculty development, Faculty promotion, Faculty recruiting, Faculty role, Faculty search, Grant writing, Human Resources, Mentoring, Merit raises, Performance reviews, Personnel Management, Spousal hire, Tenure | ||
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Title Strategically Managing Allocation of Faculty Lines and Types Across Departments and Colleges – A Risk Based ModelExcerpt: 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, and politically very sensitive. By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Explain how and why the available budget for hiring faculty positions can vary throughout and between years. • Explain the impact of having a high number of adjuncts, or many faculty working overloads, can have… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Featured, President’s Office Staff | ||
| Tags: Course Enrollment Management, Course Scheduling, Data Analytics, Data Based Decision Making, Faculty Appointment, Faculty Hiring, Faculty Management, Faculty Overloads, Faculty Rank, Faculty promotion, Institutional Research, Managing Adjuncts, Performance Measurement, Process Management, Risk Management, Strategic Management, Student Credit Hours, Tenure, Transparency | ||
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Title Creating Congruence Between the Faculty Role and Institutional Expectations, Recognitions and RewardsExcerpt: Institutional harmony and efficiency can be greatly enhanced by ensuring that institutional expectations of faculty (as defined by the faculty body) are overtly shared and clearly defined. They should also align with institutional reward (promotion, tenure and merit) and recognition systems (awards etc.). By studying this article and its linked resources, and by using the associated shared files, you will be able to: • Design a process to help clarify faculty expectations and create better alignment between expectations and their rewards and recognition at your institution. • Constitute and charge a task force to examine expectations of faculty at your… Read More › |
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| Author(s): Graham Glynn | Date last modified: June 8, 2019 | |
| Categories: Chief Academic Affairs Office Staff, Dean’s Office Staff (Deans, Executive Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, etc.), Department Chair Office Staff (Chairs, Assistant Chairs, Program Directors, etc.), Featured, President’s Office Staff | ||
| Tags: Faculty role, Human Resources, Institutional Awards, Institutional Harmony, Institutional rewards, Rubric | ||