Growing Professionally
Paths to intellectual leadership
How does a program director chart a path to intellectual leadership – especially if it seems to lead farther away from productivity as a researcher?
Developing Faculty
Choosing to focus on (Clifton) strengths
This fall the College of Arts & Letters Leadership Fellows kicked off by taking the Clifton Strengths Inventory (www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths). The strengths below are my top five: Learner Achiever Ideation Individualization Strategic When we debriefed the findings in a workshop setting, we saw that almost everyone in the room shared at Read more…
Inhabiting Academia
FLT in the U.S. – Is it in crisis?
According to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Commission on Language Learning, the Joint National Committee for Languages, the U.S. Department of Education’s current International Strategy, and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), as well as a variety of articles in the media, the low Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Confessions of an Online Professor
I have learned to embrace the inevitable. And I will confess: I like teaching online. Truly.
Inhabiting Academia
Developing my portfolio
The academy is changing, believe it or not, and with it the ways in which academics can and should present themselves online are also changing. When I was working on my PhD in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State, the faculty socialized me to prepare for a tenure-track position with a Read more…
