In a recent chairs’ council meeting at my institution, we discussed the job description of department chairs, which had been drafted several years previously. We all agreed that it needed to be updated to reflect their increased workload. In our discussion, two very different mindsets became apparent to me; my own default mindset and the mindset of our chairs, both of which I think are grounded in two very different educational and cultural systems.
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Why We Need to Fight for Our Students: The Example of Stephanie Land
It is a commonplace to say that our campuses need to be “student centered.” That we need to “meet students where they are” and recognize that our students are less