Latest Updates

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.

February 6, 2025

How to cope with new work obligations raining down from central administration and onto department heads.

February 6, 2025

Don Chu argues that department chairs should take a much more proactive role in confronting institutional budget challenges.

January 29, 2025

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Adam Grant and other Wharton experts offer quick tips to enhance your leadership effectiveness.

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.

January 23, 2025

Sending out feelers is a time-honored administrative tradition, but it backfires all too often in higher ed.

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.

January 11, 2025

Adam Levy discusses some of the systemic changes needed to make the academic workplace both a happier and healthier place.

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.

Giving Thanks

November 16, 2024

How to build authentic personal and professional friendships as you climb the administrative ranks.

October 23, 2024

Despite widespread rhetoric on social media about the importance of combating toxic workplaces and the expense associated with replacing versus retaining talent, the reality for many higher-education workers is that their experience on the job today isn’t substantially different from 2019 — raising the question of what, if anything, we learned from the pandemic.

October 21, 2024

Drawing from research and expert advice, this article outlines practical strategies to combat meeting inefficiency in higher education through better preparation, streamlined scheduling, and increased participant engagement.