Podcasts about higher education coache

In this episode, we discuss issues of faculty job satisfaction and retention in collegiate contexts. Our guest is Todd Benson. Todd is Executive Director and Principal Investigator with the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, or COACHE as it is known, which is based in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.   Link to resource mentioned in this episode:Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE):coache.gse.harvard.edu/This season of Leading Improvements in Higher Education is sponsored by the Center for Assessment and Research Studies at James Madison University; learn more at jmu.edu/assessment. Episode recorded: February 2025.  Host:  Stephen Hundley.  Producers:  Chad Beckner and Angela Bergman.  Original music:  Caleb Keith.  This award-winning podcast is a service of the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis; learn more go.iu.edu/assessmentinstitute.

In this episode, Dr. Cathy Trower provides behind the scenes insights of what happens during a board executive session, who on the board should be involved, and how the board chair and head of school can navigate this often complex governance issue. For over 20 years, Dr. Trower has been providing governance consulting services to nonprofit organizations that include colleges and universities, hospitals and health care systems, independent schools, foundations, and community service organizations. She has been invited to speak on the subject of governance at numerous conferences, institutes, webinars, and meetings nationwide. Dr. Trower was co-founder of the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and most recently served there as a Senior Research Associate and Research Director. She has studied nonprofit board governance, and faculty employment issues, policies, and practices since 1996. In November 2013 she made the decision to transition fully to governance consulting and research, and is the president and a principal of Trower and Trower, Inc. Dr. Trower is also Chair of the BoardSource Board of Directors, and Vice Chair and Governance Committee Chair of the RiverWoods Board of Trustees.

What does it take to be the leader of a college consortium amidst the changing landscape of higher education? Members of the Association for Collaborative Leadership certainly hold viewpoints of their own, forged from experience and observation. But do our opinions comport with the perspectives of those responsible for finding tomorrow's collaborative leaders? For this event, the Virtual Professional Development Committee invited two search firm representatives to share their views on what kind of leadership consortia are seeking right now: Jim Sirianni, Ph.D., Partner, Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates Jeff Kessner, Managing Associate, Isaacson, Miller They brought their knowledge earned from recent, high-profile searches for consortium heads, and they compared and contrasted those experiences with other executive searches. This dialog is designed for the consortium leader, for those with aspirations to become one, and for the boards responsible for finding and supporting their consortium's next executive. Kiernan Mathews, Ed.D., of the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) facilitated, in a Zoom Meeting format, an interactive conversation among our guests and between them and registered participants. The streaming video is available to ACL members at http://www.national-acl.org.  

Many quantitative and qualitative tools are available to assess workplace climate. Panel members discuss tools that are tailored to academic workplaces, consider the strengths and weaknesses of each, and recommend strategies for disseminating and utilizing the assessment results. In addition, the results of an analysis of race/ethnicity and gender differences among STEM faculty in the experience of workplace climate using a cross-institution sample of COACHE data are presented. Panelists: Kiernan Mathews, Director, and Todd Benson, Associate Director, Surveys and Analysis; Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Ala Qubbaj, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas-Pan American; Renée Navarro, Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Outreach, and Professor, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, UC San Francisco; Moderator: Amparo Villablanca, UC Davis School of Medicine. Series: "UC ADVANCE PAID" [Education] [Show ID: 28799]

Many quantitative and qualitative tools are available to assess workplace climate. Panel members discuss tools that are tailored to academic workplaces, consider the strengths and weaknesses of each, and recommend strategies for disseminating and utilizing the assessment results. In addition, the results of an analysis of race/ethnicity and gender differences among STEM faculty in the experience of workplace climate using a cross-institution sample of COACHE data are presented. Panelists: Kiernan Mathews, Director, and Todd Benson, Associate Director, Surveys and Analysis; Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Ala Qubbaj, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas-Pan American; Renée Navarro, Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Outreach, and Professor, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, UC San Francisco; Moderator: Amparo Villablanca, UC Davis School of Medicine. Series: "UC ADVANCE PAID" [Education] [Show ID: 28799]