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Lead Your Department to Safeguard Student Privacy

University administrators and registrars often rely on deans and department chairs to promote departmental compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Likewise, such individuals are frequently the first people in the reporting chain when a student believes that a professor has violated their privacy rights. But without

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On Our Responsibilities to Our Students in Difficult Times

Now that I am a rank-and-file full professor and not an administrator, academic leadership is starting to look a bit different. I no longer am invited to the meetings at which deans and central administrators discuss policy possibilities or campus responses to external events. (And I seem to be smiling

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Mapping the Leadership Journey

Since starting my role as director of the Office of Faculty Professional Development at my institution three years ago, I’ve had the pleasure of attending the opening session for our faculty Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) each year. Led by a former campus dean, ELP is designed as a collaboration between

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Clock Time versus Piece Work in Higher Education

Albert Einstein is credited with the observation that “not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Perhaps nowhere is this principle truer than when trying to evaluate the work of faculty members and administrators in higher education. Yet the difficulty of the task

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