Archive : June 2007
808 The Graduate Dean as Pope?
June 19, 2007
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NOTE:
The Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List will be taking a break from postings for the summer. This break will allow us to replenish the 'bank" of potential postings The next posting will appear on September 4, 2007.
Have a great Northern Hemisphere summer and Southern Hemisphere winter and we will be back in touch in early September.
Regards,
Rick Reis
"Nevertheless, graduate education requires a campus advocate who can speak and work for all graduate faculty, students, and programs. Such advocacy is needed because responsibility for graduate education is so fragmented across the university. With such fragmentation, how can the university address such pressing and troubling concerns as the dual role graduate assistants play as students and as university employees?"
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Posted by markep on June 19, 2007
807 How Professors Become Administrators, or, Where Did We Go Wrong?
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"If you can live comfortably with that characteristic of universities, you might find administration interesting, and perhaps even rewarding. If you cannot accept it, but still choose to become an administrator, the university will eventually break your heart."
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Posted by markep on June 19, 2007
806. Developing Faculty for New Roles and Changing Expectations
June 12, 2007
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"For faculty members to be able to meet the learning needs of their students effectively, they must stay abreast not only of new developments in their fields, but also of the characteristics of their students, the various strategies for multiple learning styles and levels that can enhance learning for a diverse group of students, and the possibilities for facilitating learning offered by technology. Faculty members must couple dedication with flexibility and willingness to continue their own learning."
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Posted by markep on June 12, 2007
805. The Dilemma of the Friendly Dean
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"The dynamic between the dean and faculty poses a problem for department chairs responsible for prioritizing initiatives and allocating department resources. The same dean who is personally interested in individual faculty projects and activities holds the chairs accountable for investing finite resources in programs that best serve the institutional mission and/or help grow student enrollment."
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Posted by markep on June 12, 2007
804. Live Green or Die - Can Engineering Schools "go green" Fast Enough to Save Our Planet?
June 05, 2007
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There's a real climate of collaboration right now," says Jamieson, who cites such factors as the increase in public interest, industry's need to meet environmental regulations and concerns over the availability and cost of oil and gas.
Posted by markep on June 5, 2007
803. First, Do No Harm
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"Higher education institutions must systematically assess and improve their performance. But not all diagnostic information is suitable for accountability and consumer information, and a ham-fisted approach like this could sabotage important efforts to diagnose and improve colleges and universities."
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Posted by markep on June 5, 2007