Coaching is often lauded as a skill excellent leaders need to empower their people and create healthy, productive work environments. Carla B. Swearingen’s 2020 article explores in detail what coaching is, its benefits, and several ways it can be used to develop faculty “one conversation at a time,” and in her April 2022 article on coaching for academic leaders, Susan Robison explores one framework and two tools academic leaders can use to guide important conversations with their faculty.
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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