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Ask the Expert How Do You Know When It’s Time To Advance? May 20, 2025

A seasoned higher education leader shares insight on when it may be time to seek a new role within one's current institution or to move to a new employer in a position of elevated responsibility.

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Ask the Expert How Do You Handle Setbacks in Career Progression? May 6, 2025

Everyone has career setbacks, which are sure to hurt one's professional and personal ego. Here's some insight on how to navigate these setbacks and recover.

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Ask the Expert How Do I Transition From Being Viewed as a Manager to a Leader? April 22, 2025

Management and leadership are often used interchangeably, but they each have unique responsibilities. A seasoned higher education leader shares advice on how to shift from being perceived as a manager to a leader.

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How Faculty Can Build and Refine the Vital Skill of Grant-Writing February 14, 2025

Grant writing is a vital tool for faculty members to obtain financial support for their teaching, research, and service projects. Learn what makes a good proposal and how you can build your grant-writing skills.

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Beyond the Acronym(s): The Continuity of DEI Work in Higher Education January 17, 2025

With the dismantling of physical DEI offices, DEI personnel, and the many created acronyms, the key to continuing this work is innovation.

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The New and Mid-Career Professors’ Guide to Avoiding Water Cooler Talk December 16, 2024

What's a new or mid-career faculty member to do when they find themselves at the water cooler? Let's explore discussions to avoid and alternative courses of action.

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Assess and Refuel: The Academic Semester in Review November 13, 2024

November is an important time to pause, assess student outcomes, and consider how we might refuel for the spring semester.

Ask the Expert How Do I Tailor My Curriculum Vitae for Maximum Impact? October 29, 2024

Carefully considering and adjusting your CV for each specific opportunity will yield increased success in the sought outcome.

Ask the Expert Why is It Often Assumed that Black Faculty Members Will Teach the Diversity Courses? April 18, 2023

Even when they lack the preparation and/or credentialing to teach diversity courses, Black professors are more likely than not "pursued" to teach them. Here's why and what you can do about it.

Ask the Expert How Do I Cope When the Department Chair Who Hired Me is Leaving? March 21, 2023

It can be unnerving when you find out the person who hired you is leaving soon after starting your new job, but these tips can help you navigate the challenge.

Author In Residence The Oral Tradition and Contemporary Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives March 13, 2023

How does oral history relate to contemporary diversity, equity, and inclusion work? An Associate Professor of African American Studies explains the connection.

Ask the Expert How Do I Write My Diversity Statement? February 28, 2023

Diversity statements are now commonly part of higher education job applications. A seasoned higher ed professional shares advice to keep in mind as you write this important document.

Post “Normality”: Toward Revisionist Higher Education Leadership September 21, 2022

Tackling declining enrollment, retention, and graduation rates requires more than a return to "pre-pandemic normality."

Author In Residence The Black Lives Matter Movement: Impact on the Monuments of the Confederacy and Beyond February 10, 2022

In this interview, Author in Residence Emily Allen Williams examines the trajectory of the Black Lives Matter Movement alongside Dr. Nancy Wellington and Dr. Sharon Albert Honore. The interview stresses that various organizations, institutions, and movements perform differently in their quest for political freedom, but each in their own way have added to the historical landscape and insistence for political space and place.

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Pathways for Students: Those Who Left and Those Who Never Started January 5, 2022

Appropriating haphazard approaches to recruiting students, especially those who have left your institution and adult students 24+, without processes and methods will yield inadequate, if any, successful outcomes. There is so much that can be done to re-enroll students who have left before obtaining their degree and help adult students who have never attended college, but detailed work must be done.

Author In Residence Who’s in the Room? Who’s Included? Who’s Excluded? November 5, 2021

If we are to be effective in I.D.E.A. work in the twenty-first century, we must bear witness to both our historical and contemporary practices of exclusion. Are we ready to examine -- in America -- who has been excluded from not only entry into the room but also full participation and respect once within the room?

Author In Residence Words Need Love Too: Approaching I.D.E.A. Work September 24, 2021

Dr. Emily Williams shares how defining the words inclusion, diversity, equity, and access subsequently expand the discourse toward artful investigations and discussions on opinions, experiences, and approaches about I.D.E.A work. The art of negotiating and navigating differences of opinions in the defining process of these terms requires respect and cultivation of trust which is crucial for opening the door, and keeping it open, as I.D.E.A. work continues and evolves.

Cultural “Addition” Versus Cultural “Fit” in Faculty Hiring September 3, 2021

What is this 'fit' that is all too casually a part of the discussion in search committee deliberations? Administrative leadership and human resource units have a twenty-first century responsibility to provide the training and guidelines to move search committees beyond traditional 'fit' discussions predicated upon decades old institutional 'fit' hiring practices.

Make Meetings Matter: Increasing the Efficacy of Academic Meetings January 13, 2020

"With so many meetings taking place in colleges and universities, why are the outcomes for our students toward graduation increasingly small in comparison to the large number of meetings held daily, weekly, monthly, and annually [often with unmeasurable outcomes]?," asks one seasoned higher ed professional. In an effort to increase outcomes in student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates, she shares critical questions to ask yourself before scheduling or keeping up re-occurring meetings.

CEOs On Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education December 2, 2019

In part two of her series on the growing emphasis of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) best practices in higher education institutions, Emily Williams talks with Gwendolyn VanSant of BRIDGE and John Bissell of Greylock Federal Credit Union. Both CEOs are award-winning regional and national leaders in DEI work and share how they've collaborated with the higher education industry and their thoughts on the evolving DEI work across sectors.

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