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Region 7 Comprehensive Center, 2023
This "impact story" details how the Region 7 Comprehensive Center supported the Mississippi Department of Education in improving its Professional Growth System and building statewide capacity to support its effective use.
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Capacity Building, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development
Yunedsy Silva – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The principal goal of this research paper is to gain knowledge of leadership roles in academic systems. Principals, heads, and directors are in positions of leadership in educational institutions. It is the responsibility of leaders to support and direct individuals in the proper implementation of their duties and responsibilities, to provide…
Descriptors: Administrators, Principals, Administrator Role, Department Heads
David R. Roper – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose. The purpose of this qualitative study was to obtain community college career technical education (CTE) department chairs' lived experiences toward synthesizing leadership skills. This study sought to identify the lived experiences of CTE department chairs at community colleges. The research question was "How do CTE department chairs…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Department Heads, Instructional Leadership
McClellan, E. Fletcher; Kopko, Kyle C.; Hafler, Amanda – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
Thirty years after the last APSA-sponsored recommendations on the structure of the undergraduate political science major, new efforts at curriculum reform are under way. As a prelude to how the profession might respond, this article examines how political science departments made undergraduate curriculum changes during the 2010s. Based on a survey…
Descriptors: Departments, Undergraduate Study, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Wong, Victoria; Dillon, Justin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2020
Background: There are frequent calls in the literature for school science and mathematics departments to collaborate, largely in response to perceived overlaps between the two subjects in the context of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Yet few studies explore how such collaborations might work. This paper is unusual both in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Departments, Departments, Mathematics
Martinez, Antonio Estevan; Gehrtz, Jessica; Rasmussen, Chris; LaTona-Tequida, Talia; Vroom, Kristen – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
One way that university mathematics departments across the United States are making efforts to improve their introductory mathematics courses is by implementing or increasing the level of course coordination. This can entail creating uniform course elements for multi-section courses and efforts to build a community of practice among the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Departments, Coordination, Communities of Practice
Basu, Partha; Deiss, Frédérique; Long, Eric C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
A time- and cost-effective strategy aimed at increasing awareness of diversity, equity, inclusion, respect (DEIR), safety, and other issues within a typical graduate program is described. Using a brief portion of time (up to [approximately]10 min) at the commencement of each weekly departmental colloquium event, graduate students under faculty…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Safety
Tapala, Tshepo T.; Fuller, Molly; Mentz, Kobus – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
Departmental Heads (DH) has huge responsibilities of heading phases, departments, and teaching of subjects. At the same time, they need to focus on their leadership and management tasks as senior teachers. The predicament of being a teacher and leader-manager is exacerbated by more expectations from the principals and school management teams…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum
Xiao, Hongying – Educational Planning, 2022
The purpose of this study is to analyze the governance structure of Tsinghua University at the school and the department levels. This study takes a qualitative approach by collecting data from university archive and in-depth interviews. The data were triangulated to seek for common patterns and emerging themes. Five types of governance at the…
Descriptors: College Administration, Governance, Models, Departments
Ludvik, Marilee Bresciani; Hagedorn, Linda Serra – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
The Netflix series, "The Chair," illustrates a dramatic portrayal of the role of the chair. The reality of the department chair's role is complex and becoming more so. The inherent structure of the department chair is rife with paradoxes. Following a brief overview of the leadership literature and a quick summary of "The Chair"…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Educational Change, Administrator Role, College Faculty
Camille Kandiko Howson; Martyn Kingsbury – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Institution-wide curriculum change is a costly, time-intensive and politically fraught undertaking. It is a challenge identifying who has responsibility for the curriculum and who is empowered to change it. The unbundling of the traditional tri-partite academic role of teaching, research and service leaves a gap of who in those communities decides…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Holistic Approach
Kripa Freitas; Jennifer Murdock – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
Among existing infrastructures to disseminate innovative teaching methods and to build collaborative networks, the authors situate a community of practice (CoP). They explain what a CoP is and compare it with teaching-focused economics journals and conferences, and other infrastructures such as institutional teaching centers. Since 2016, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
Demissie L. Karorsa; Monica E. Allen – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Transformational leadership (TL) is a leadership approach that inspires followers and encourages their effective engagement to contribute adequately to organizational goal achievement. By inspiring followers to pursue and attain exceptional performance levels, TL accrues high follower satisfaction in their jobs and with their organizations…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Department Heads, Leadership Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
John Roth; Rachel Cooke; William W. Reynolds – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Adjunct faculty at colleges and universities in the U.S. are quickly outnumbering full-time faculty. This new faculty majority often struggles with low pay and sub-par working conditions. Recognizing this issue has a number of negative impacts for higher education, researchers at a comprehensive university in the southeastern United States…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Salary Wage Differentials
Chelsea E. Overholt; Kelly M. Torres – International Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2024
Although graduate academic institutions implement diverse annual review processes, their overall intent is focused on ensuring continuous improvement of program quality (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020). Through program review processes, university leaders (e.g., department chairs, program leads) analyze student…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Study, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods