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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Keep Calm and Carry On

Higher ed leaders need to carefully consider their unique contexts in charting a path through the current chaos, Susan Elrod and Adrianna Kezar write.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

How Can Deans Support Faculty Well-Being?

Support for faculty well-being should be an expectation of academic leadership, Richard Badenhausen writes.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

A President’s Journey to AI Adoption

José Luis Cruz Rivera explains how he’s come to use AI in academic leadership, and the sources of inspiration and learning he’s found along the way.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Reimagining the CFO Role

The CFO role has gotten progressively more challenging, Jen Meyers Pickard and Melody Rose write.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Chairs Can Be the Changemakers Colleges Need

Don Chu argues that department chairs should take a much more proactive role in confronting institutional budget challenges.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

A Guide to Department Chair Merit Badges

What if, Hollis Robbins asks, chairs could earn ceremonial merit badges for accomplishing feats that only those in academia could truly appreciate?

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Learning a Language Called ‘How to Provost’

Laurie McLary reflects on what it’s like to wholly, humanly inhabit an administrative role whose language and norms you are only just learning.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

A Satirical Toolbox for Deans

Lisa Chasan-Taber and Barry Braun offer advice on how to fail at being a dean without really trying.