Winter/Spring 2004
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Winter/Spring 2004 |
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The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent institutions. Topics will include: Student Retention: Speakers will examine strategies for working with faculty members to improve student retention. Workshop exercises will assist chairs in examining issues such as changing student demographics, understanding the characteristics of “Millennial” students, strengthening faculty/student interaction to retain students, using institutional data to target students needing assistance, and strengthening freshman year programs. Recruiting Students: What are the appropriate roles for the department chair and faculty members in recruiting students? How can the chair work with faculty colleagues to strengthen the number and mix of students? Having Difficult Conversations on Personnel Issues: Preventing personnel issues from mushrooming into major problems through early intervention will be the focus of this session. Participants will explore how to have a frank conversation with a colleague or staff member when he or she may have done something potentially harmful to the institution. Legal Issues: An expert on higher education law will examine basic legal issues and principles with which department chairs should be familiar, as well as procedures for dealing with personnel issues and situations in which it is necessary to document actions. Among the speakers at the workshops will be Joseph Cuseo, professor of psychology and director of the Freshman Seminar at Marymount College (CA) and author of numerous publications on retention including “Comprehensive Academic Support for Students During the First Year of College,” in Student Academic Services: An Integrated Approach; The Transfer Transition: A Summary of Key Issues, Target Areas, and Tactics for Reform; and co-author with John Gardner of the instructor’s manual for Your College Experience: Strategies for Success; Kathy Kurz, vice president of Scannell & Kurz, Inc., a consulting firm that customizes enrollment management programs for colleges and universities, and a former financial aid administrator at Earlham College (IN) and the University of Rochester (NY); Jerry Pattengale, assistant vice president for academic support and professor of history at Indiana Wesleyan University and author of the leading text on college sophomores, Visible Solutions for Invisible Students: Helping Sophomores Succeed; and John Schuh, distinguished professor of educational leadership and department chair at Iowa State University, and author, co-author, or editor of more than 180 publications including The Life Cycle of the Department Chair, to be published by Jossey Bass in 2004. Speakers on legal issues will include Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, principal of CG2 Consulting and a seminar leader on a variety of higher education management and legal subjects including faculty hiring procedures, academic ethics, and sexual harassment policies; Kent Weeks, attorney with the law firm of Weeks, Turner, Anderson & Russell, professor of practice at the George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University (TN), and author of Managing Departments: Chairpersons and the Law; and LeVon Wilson, professor of business administration and law at Western Carolina University (NC), and author of numerous articles on higher education law. Several chief academic officers will also make presentations, including Vernon Miles, dean of the college and professor of English at Lynchburg College (VA); Terry Smith, vice president and dean for academic affairs at Columbia College (MO), and Jo Young Switzer, vice president and dean for academic affairs and professor for communication studies at Manchester College (IN). Campuses are encouraged to send several department chairs to a workshop so they may support one another in managing change upon return to their institution. Participants may continue their discussions following the workshops by joining the listserv for department chairs at independent colleges and universities (www.cic.edu/projects_services/listservs.asp). To register for the workshops, click here. For more information, contact CIC Vice President for Programs Mary Ann Rehnke at (202) 466-7230 or mrehnke@cic.nche.edu. Independent |
