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Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Comparative Study of Academic Versus Business Sabbaticals

 The academic model for sabbaticals is far more rigorous, in terms of being based on merit and having its outcomes evaluated, than is the practice of sabbaticals in the commercial world.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Response to Increasing Faculty Resource Constraints
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Adjunct Faculty Can Increase Student Success

 Although the numbers of adjunct faculty members at most institutions of higher education have increased, those instructors rarely are included in programs to improve student achievement. But Cal Poly Pomona, by providing modest resources and mentoring, generates opportunities for adjuncts to positively affect student success.
Conference Recordings

After the Fall

 Come learn how you can plan and coordinate campus-wide retention efforts and promote faculty participation at your institution.
Conference Recordings

Best Practices for Instructional Continuity During Short-Term Disruptions

 This session will showcase best practices for instructional continuity for most short-term disruptions.
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Challenging “If You Build It, They Will Come”

 Active learning spaces can be catalysts for improved teaching and learning. Yet the key to planning for and effectively implementing them on campus is faculty who are willing to change, accept, and evolve their instructional delivery.
Example Plans

Continuity Planning Website
Conference Presentations

Data-Driven Design for the Evolving Academic Workplace

 Interpreting diverse perspectives and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information are key to making impactful and informed long-term decisions that drive successful student, institutional, and facility development.
Conference Presentations

Data-Informed Faculty Staffing and Budgeting by Programs
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Developing a Mission Statement for a Faculty Senate

 The mission statement stakes the faculty’s claim in the institutional decision-making process.
Conference Presentations

Engaging Faculty in Classroom Planning and Design

 Flexible classroom space is at a premium, making it necessary to link design with utilization to facilitate projected academic program growth. Including faculty in classroom planning and design processes is a vital part of supporting pedagogical innovation in campus learning spaces.
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Engaging Faculty Senates in the Budget Planning Process

 The opinions of faculty may add to the development of productive strategies during tough economic times.
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Faculty Mentoring: What the Boyer Commission Forgot

 A proposed mentoring program using “strategic collaboration” to improve learning by motivating and enabling faculty to become better undergraduate teachers is suggested in support of the Boyer Commission’s goals.
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Faculty Motivation in Challenging Times

 Financial concern influences many of the factors that make up job satisfaction for faculty in small-to-medium-sized institutions; transparent leadership can mitigate some of these concerns.
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From Fragmentation to Coherence

 Through integrated planning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University moved from three separate academic catalogs and curriculum processes to a single, standardized system. The approach emphasized relationship-building, respected campus differences, and ensured consistency, creating a stronger foundation for future change.
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Good Academic Planning Is What Happens . . .

 The division of Academic Affairs at the University of West Georgia worked with SCUP to integrate academic planning with facilities, accreditation, budget, student affairs, and student success.
Conference Presentations

Improve Employee Engagement and Student Success Through Effective Leadership Practices
Conference Presentations

Improving the Student Experience Through Interdepartmental Planning and Collaboration
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Integrating Planning Into the Development of Future Higher Education Leaders

 A practitioner-based program uses the practices of integrated planning to cultivate the knowledge and decision-making capacity of mid-level faculty and administrators, enhancing the higher education leadership of tomorrow.
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Launching Successful Planning Efforts
Conference Presentations

Leveraging Software to Improve Academic Programs and Faculty Hiring
Conference Presentations

Open-concept Faculty Neighborhoods for More Collaboration and Communication

 Traditional, siloed faculty offices are no longer the best option for serving student and staff needs.
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Planning for Instructional Continuity

 Classes can be cancelled because of inclement weather, faculty being unavailable, IT or power outages, pandemic-related closures, and other occurrences. The result of any of these circumstances can be a loss of instruction. St. Joseph’s University developed and applied a best practices guide to ensure the continuation of instruction in the advent of many short-term disruptions.
Blog Post

Planning for: Professional Development for Online Faculty

 Interview with Dr. Joel Domingo, Associate Professor and Chair, Research Institute, City University of Seattle (formerly Academic Program Director/Associate Professor of the online Ed.D. in Leadership Program).
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Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty

 Despite efforts to alleviate problems associated with women and minority recruitment and retention, problems still exist, as shown in a review of current literature and a survey of selected institutions.
Conference Presentations

Rethinking the Faculty Office

 This review of faculty workspace innovations across our region's institutions will challenge conventional thinking about how faculty space should be allocated within departments.
Conference Recordings

Revitalizing the Workplace

 Office space makes up about a third of all non-residential space on campuses.
Blog Post

Strategies for Engaging Faculty in Change

 In difficult times, planning and the successful implementation of that planning requires the buy-in and support of a range of stakeholders—particularly the faculty. We interviewed Sandra Patterson-Randles, chancellor emerita and professor of English at Indiana University Southeast, to discuss how to best engage faculty in planning initiatives.
Example Plans

Ten for One

 The research university’s 2023 strategic plan.
Conference Presentations

The Evolving Academic Workplace

 Learn current methodologies for effective, function-based workplace planning that eliminate redundancies, break down silos, allow dynamic modes of working, and increase collaboration.
Webinar Recordings

The Faculty Factor

 In this session we explore the successes and failures involved in two planning initiatives that required broad-based faculty support in order to reverse issues with programmatic quality, student success, and institutional accreditation.
Conference Presentations

The Future of Remote and Hybrid Work Environments on Campus

 Academic office spaces have historically followed established norms.
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Unbundling the Issue of Faculty Productivity

 Unbundling how faculty spend their time is a key driver of higher education purpose, institutional intent, and cost. It deserves to be unbundled into its component parts.
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Understanding Higher Education Costs

 Colleges and universities must be more proactive in describing to a wider public their of fiscal and human resources because, among other reasons, a careful analysis reveals counterintuitive results that support a finding that higher education has been fiscally responsible.
Webinar Recordings

Voices from the Field: Episode #7

 Florida Atlantic University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Bret Danilowicz discusses how their online-experienced faculty stepped up to assist colleagues, how he’s prioritizing to ensure continuity and assess capital projects, and the importance of pulling together as a community to find ways to help beyond academics.
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What Drives Instructional Costs in Two-Year Colleges

 In community colleges, who delivers instruction is more important in driving costs than what is taught.