University of Missouri

Academic Affairs

President's Academic Leadership Institute (PALI)

Resources

Links to Useful Resources

Index

• Leadership Issues for Department Chairs
• Enhancing Learning - Impact of Technology on Learning
• Assessment and Evaluation

Leadership Issues for Department Chairs

• Faculty Recruitment Study from The Project on Faculty Appointments at Harvard University.
• Department Chair Online Resource Center from the American Council on Education. Collection of resources addresses core questions about the job of being Department Chair.
• Critical Components of Departmental Success from The National Academy for Academic Leadership newsletter.
• Article on transformational leadership with a list of common leadership traits for transformational leadership.
• Suggested practices on faculty recruitment and retention
• Good practices for mentoring new career faculty
• The report on tenure and good practices from ACE and AAUP (PDF)
• Faculty reward systems from The National Academy for Academic Leadership newsletter.
• Managing Change Excellent series of guides on how to manage change in higher education institutions from the American Council on Education On Change III—
• Taking Charge of Change: A Primer for Colleges and Universities, 2000 (PDF)
• On Change II—Reports from the Road: Insights on Institutional Change, 1999 (PDF)
• On Change I—En Route to Transformation, 1998 (PDF)
• Assessing your Institution's readiness for change from the National Academy for Academic Leadership.
• Leadership Excellence: Constructing the Role of Department Chair Paper presented at The Changing Role of Department Chairs, 19th Annual Conference Program of the Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, FL February 6, 2002.
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• Budget Cuts: A Call for Leadership Paper presented at The Changing Role of Department Chairs, 20th Annual Conference Program of the Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, FL March 18, 2003.
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Enhancing Learning - Impact of Technology on Learning

• What We Know About Student Learning; (Cross) transcript of speech.
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Questions and Answers from the Field, takes on five key questions about collegiate instruction.
• Asking the Right Question: What Does Research Tell Us About Technology and Higher Learning? (Ehrmann) sorts out useless and useful questions to ask and answer.
• Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever (Chickering & Ehrmann) links technology to the advancement of teaching and leaning.
• What Do We Need to Learn about Technology Use in Education? (Ehrmann) addresses questions on "magic"' investments, costs, and impacting practice. Check it out.
• A national report on the current status of graduate education
• What We Know About Learning; MU Program for Excellence in Teaching (PET).
• Tips for Student Success; MU Program for Excellence in Teaching (PET).
• Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning Online and Teaching.
• Learning Through Assessment; (Gardiner, Anderson, and Cambridge) A resource guide for higher education from the American Association for Higher Education.
• Powerful Partnerships: A Shared Responsibility for Learning (Joint report from the American Association for Higher Education, the American College Personnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators)
• New Conversations About Learning: Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology, Cognitive Science and Work-Place Studies (Marchese)
• Professional Evaluation of Teaching (England, Hutchings, McKeachie)
• Major Contributions of Cognitive Science Assessing as part of learning.
• Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning from the American Association for Higher Education.

Assessment and Evaluation

• What Outcomes Assessment Misses (Ehrmann) considers outcome assessment and some common misconceptions.
• Assessment and Evaluation an article from The National Academy for Academic Leadership newsletter on, you guessed it...
• Fair assessment practices Article highlighting general practices for assessing student learning. Offers seven guidelines to help ensure that assessment practices gather accurate information about what students know and are fair to all students enrolled in the course.