New initiatives in higher education are often borne on the backs of faculty and must succeed in spite of the significant demands of their professional and personal lives. This session invites all AAC&U registrants to consider, at the outset of this year’s program, the readiness—and the willingness—of faculty to adopt plans for institutional transformation. With a new report from a large-scale, longitudinal study on the faculty condition, participants will work together to generate informed questions for subsequent...
Raising Our Voices: Reclaiming the Narrative on the Value of Higher Education
AAC&U’s 2019 Annual Meeting will explore ways of elevating the voices of administrators, faculty, practitioners, and students in the public narrative about the value of higher education. Across the nation, the media, employers, state and national legislators, and community members in rural, urban, and suburban areas have questioned higher education’s value for today’s students and, at times, for society at large. The need is clear for higher education to reclaim the narrative and...
Part of "Interrogating the Intersection Between Work Life Balance and Identity"
Drawing from COACHE data, this study examines the role of work-life balance and work-life balance support in faculty’s institutional and departmental commitment, using data from a national faculty survey. Results show that work-life balance is related to departmental and institutional commitment among women and men, but work-life balance support is only significant among women.
Part of "Is Work Working? Well-being and Satisfaction in the Academy"
Using COACHE data, this study is the first to examine the personal and institutional predictors of work-life balance among faculty with different household statutes, including single faculty with children, single faculty without children, married faculty with children, and married faculty without children.
Authors:
Nida Denson, University of Western Sydney
Katalin Szelenyi, University of Massachusetts Boston
To effectively support faculty, we must understand the issues that they consider to be most pertinent to their work. This presentation will provide some insight into the types of support that faculty describe as critical by summarizing the results of a qualitative analysis of faculty comments from the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey (administered to over 200,000 faculty over the past decade). This study asks faculty to describe the one thing their institution can do to improve the workplace for them. In particular, this session delves into a qualitative analysis of their comments...
The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) convenes annually as a community of scholars dedicated to the study of higher education. ASHE encourages proposals that advance knowledge and understanding of a wide range of issues pertaining to higher education as a field of study. We welcome proposals from faculty, scholars, administrators, and students who work in higher education, public policy, or a related field; those who work within and across such disciplines as education, public policy, economics, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology; and...
This year’s conference theme is Leading in Times of Change.
Leadership and managing change are two of the most pressing concerns POD Network Members face in their institutions and in the educational development profession. We believe that these two concepts, leadership and change, are naturally intertwined and have combined them to form the 2018 conference theme.
We hope that sessions addressing this theme will consider the questions: Where in higher education is change already happening? And where is change needed but not...
This session will address the changing nature of the role of today’s department chair and how leadership expectations continue to evolve. Speakers will share data on national trends for departmental leadership with the goal of identifying core competencies necessary for success.
Presiding:
Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Iowa State University; Jack Finney, Virginia Tech; and Janet Kistner, Florida State University...
APLU’s 2018 Annual Meeting is the premier gathering of senior leaders from public research universities, land-grant institutions, and state university systems. No other meeting in higher education brings together such a diverse array of public university presidents, chancellors, and other senior leaders.
The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting is Resilience. The meeting sessions will explore the capacity of universities, their communities, and partners to adapt and thrive no matter what stresses or acute shocks they experience.
