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Jane Holbrook

HEASC: Higher Education Associations' Sustainability Consortium - 0 views

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  • Jane Holbrook on 31 Oct 08
     
    Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC). HEASC is an informal network of higher education associations (HEAs) with a commitment to advancing sustainability within their constituencies and within the system of higher education itself.
Veronica Brown

The Amazon of Higher Education - 2 views

www.slate.com/..._s_tiny_school_has_become.html

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  • Veronica Brown on 06 Jan 14
     
    Was interested in this link because of the idea of how a school addressed issues of struggling enrolment. I'm interested in the topic, particularly for smaller programs. This article is about a whole institution - if anyone has read some effective strategies about how to grow enrolment, I'd love to read them.
Mark Morton

I Thought I Mentored Her, But ... - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • It is much better to have faculty volunteers, like yourself, officially assigned to mentees -- for when mentoring is formal and institutional, it's not seen as a quirk of personality or misread as some kind of stalking.
Mark Morton

How First-Year Faculty Members Can Help Their Chairmen - Advice - The Chronicle of High... - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ask for multiple mentors so you can get the benefit of experts in more than one topic. Many professors are overworked and overassigned, so getting a single, good mentor can be a pretty tall order. Instead, work with your chairman to determine four or five topics on which you would like to receive guidance from several mentors.
  • Some suggestions: Find out who the whizzes are at teaching the various kinds of courses in your department and ask to meet with them. Believe me, most good teachers will find time to talk about their own approaches to teaching; it's quite flattering. Ask to be linked with someone who can help you to understand how to balance scholarship and good teaching, or how to make the service expectations of the institution jibe with the teaching expectations. After you meet with your colleagues, talk about these things with your chairman.
Mark Morton

A Helping Hand for Young Faculty Members - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • "She wasn't really familiar with my discipline, but she was able to give me perspectives about the institution from a different vantage point. I really grew to appreciate that."
  • an increasing number of colleges now rely on formal mentor programs, many of them campuswide, to give new faculty members guaranteed access to senior professors who can help them.
  • These days, actively seeking career guidance within the ivory tower doesn't hold the stigma for new professors that it once did
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  • "It used to be sink or swim." Either you were cut out for the professoriate, or you weren't, she says. "But now you walk into a new place and it's not shameful to need help."
  • baffling task of pinning down the right mix of research, teaching, and service that will lead to tenure.
  • On a scale of 1 to 5, with the highest number representing "very important," the mean score for informal mentoring was 4.49. Formal mentoring was slightly less important with a mean score of 4.04.
  • "We try to have multiple pathways for people to engage in finding mentors,"
  • Officials at Yale University are fast-tracking efforts to shape the informal faculty mentors that is common on its campus into a more formal mentor process
  • Ms. Trower says that the more corporate mentorship mode — which includes training mentors and protégés, setting goals, and measuring the end result — isn't yet common in academe. Meanwhile, formal mentor programs do have at least one drawback: a mismatch can result in a strained relationship from which neither party sees a way out.
  • the future of mentor programs for faculty members should include outreach to midcareer professors
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