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Dorothy Mitstifer - Kappa Omicron Nu

Reflective Human Action

Alyce Akers - CSU-Northridge

Akers Handout 1 - Motivating, Evaluating, and Rewarding Faculty Members
                               Managing Generation X

Akers Handout 2 - Department Chair Roles
                               Portrait of an Effective Department
                               Assessing Your Department Team Climate
                               Tuckman Model
                               Effective Team Characteristics
                               Keys to Productive Department

Akers Handout 3 - Human Ecological Theory & Faculty Motivation

Akers Handout 4 - William Ury and Mark Gerzon 

Richard Glotzer - University of Akron

Developing Relationships - Promoting Teamwork and Encouraging Transformational Buy-in

Sue McGregor - Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax

Zone Figure - Globalization, Diversity, and Internationalization

McGregor Handout 1 - Critique of The World is Flat
                                    
Diversity Management
                                    
Internationalization

McGregor Handout 2 -  Internationalizing the Curriculum

McGregor Handout 3 - Global Principles

McGregor Handout 4 - U.S. Census Figures

Connor Walters - Illinois State University
Janet Pope - Louisiana Tech University

Mentoring Programs - Paving the Way to Success for New Faculty

Sharon Nickols - University of Georgia

Working with University Administrators

Articulating Vision and Goals

Sue Stanley - CSU-Long Beach

New Structures

Karla Hughes - East Carolina University

Organizational Change - New Structures: Engaging All in Change

Timeline - Six Years of Change

Jan Shane - Illinois State University

Internal Assessment and Development

Virginia Moxley - Kansas State University

Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (GPIDEA)

Gearldean Johnson - Tennessee State University

1890 FCS-Distance Instructional Alliance

Mary Pritchard - Northern Illinois University

Toolkit for Administrators

Virginia and Rick Johnson - North Dakota State University

Doing Things Right or Doing the Right Thing?

 

Additional Resources

The World is Flat: Keeping Your Edge - Knowledge Management - Interview with Dorothy Mitstifer

Program Viability - Penny A. Ralston. (Video. 20Mb; broadband connection recommended.)

Diversity - Covering Excerpt - Kenji Yoshino - (Book: Covering: The hidden assault on our civil rights. New York: Random House, 2006.)

Diversity books:

  • Thomas, R. R., Jr. (1991). Beyond race and gender: Unleashing the power of your total work force by managing diversity. New York: AMACOM.
  • Thomas, R. R., Jr. (1999). Building a house for diversity. New York: AMACOM.
  • Thomas, R. R., Jr. (2006). Building on the promise of diversity: How we can move to the next level in our workplaces, our communities, and our society. New York: AMACOM.

HR Resources:

Higher Education Newsletters

Alliances and Political Realities:

Benoit, P., & Graham, S. (2005). Leadership excellence: Constructing the role of the department. Academic Leadership Journal, 3(1). www.academicleadership.org/volume3/issue1/index.html

The Tests of a Leader: Special Issue of Harvard Business Review, January 2007

  • Becoming the Boss, Linda A. Hill
  • Courage as a Skill, Kathleen K. Reardon
  • The CEOs Second Act, David A. Nadler
  • What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert S. Kaplan
  • Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail, John P. Kotter
  • and more

Leader to Leader

  • Number 40, Spring 2006 - Renewing and Sustaining Leadership - Annie McKee and Richard E. Boyatizis, 
    pp. 30-36.
  • Number 43, Winter 2007 - 
    The Five Intelligences of Leadership - Clint Sidle
    The Cause Has Charisma - Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson
    Leading with An Open Mind - William C. Taylor
    Finishing Well: How Pathfinders Transform Success to Significance - Bob Buford
    The Leader as Capacity Builder - Ronald Ashkenas and Robert Schaffer
  • And if that is not enough, the Winter 2007 issue had a Special Supplement: 
    Leaders: Their Education and Development Today
    (presented by the Fuqua School of Business and its
    Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University).

Take Care of Yourself Ideas

Task Force for Program Advancement

The mission of the cross-organizational Task Force on Program Advancement is "to proactively and collaboratively strengthen higher education programs in the Human Sciences/Family and Consumer Sciences (HS/FCS) community."

Consultants Available to Assist FCS Higher Education Unit Leaders/Administrators

The TFPA Consultant List is maintained to provide support and contacts for family and consumer sciences related programs as they seek to advance and strengthen areas within their higher education units.