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Ask the Chair: The Post-Spring-Break Juggernaut
March 24, 2025
Summer is in sight. How to prepare now for the coming whirlwind that ends with graduation.

How to Get Good at Conflict
March 12, 2025
According to a new book, there are tools we can learn to help us sit with conflict and grow from it.

Getting Started: A Basic 10 Point Guide to Launching an Academic Career
February 8, 2025
Dr. Robert Greenstreet provides a ten-step guide for new faculty, outlining key strategies such as understanding institutional expectations, building networks, balancing responsibilities, and preparing for tenure.

Chairs Can Be the Changemakers Colleges Need
February 6, 2025
Don Chu argues that department chairs should take a much more proactive role in confronting institutional budget challenges.

Ask the Chair: ‘The Job Keeps Changing and I Can’t Keep Up’
February 6, 2025
How to cope with new work obligations raining down from central administration and onto department heads.

Small Shifts, Big Impact: Elevate Your Leadership
January 29, 2025
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Adam Grant and other Wharton experts offer quick tips to enhance your leadership effectiveness.

A Wicked Perspective: Faculty and Leadership in Academia
January 28, 2025
Dr. Rebecca Fredrickson uses Wicked as a metaphor for academia, illustrating how leadership shapes faculty perceptions and emphasizing the need for integrity and critical awareness in academic roles.

Admin 101: How to Keep Your Trial Balloons From Sinking
January 23, 2025
Sending out feelers is a time-honored administrative tradition, but it backfires all too often in higher ed.

How to Respond to Changes at Work with ‘Rugged Flexibility’
When we make changes that we prefer, we are in control.
January 12, 2025
Rugged flexibility is to be tough, determined, and durable, while also consciously responding to altered circumstances or conditions, and, like a palm tree in a storm, adapt and bend easily without breaking.

Mind matters: investigating academia’s ‘mental health crisis’
January 11, 2025
Adam Levy discusses some of the systemic changes needed to make the academic workplace both a happier and healthier place.

Building a Culture of Gratitude on Campus
Giving Thanks
November 28, 2024
Building a culture of gratitude on campus can help shape a learning community for the better, M’hammed Abdous and Annette Finley-Croswhite write.

Admin 101: The Friend Deficit in Leadership Jobs
Giving Thanks
November 16, 2024
How to build authentic personal and professional friendships as you climb the administrative ranks.