Part 1 of this series dealt with what you as a department head should consider before you embark on a new project. Why? It’s easy to have a great idea. You may be bursting with creative designs for your unit. But carrying out a project successfully requires time, money, and labor, so you want to have made a careful assessment of whether to proceed. If your answer is yes, here are some valuable next steps.
Connections Are Everything: Putting Relationships at the Heart of Higher Ed
As academic leaders, we are under so much pressure to deliver—enrollment targets, strategic plans, graduation rates, AI policies, and on and on—that we can lose sight of what our students