by Ralph Enlow | Jan 8, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
So, now you’ve bought into the idea that faculty development is the shortest route to increasing the extent of educational outcomes achievement. How then may you best go about the business of faculty development? In this post, I submit the most effective manner...
by Ralph Enlow | Dec 18, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Aligning faculty development In this present blog post series, I have been writing about the central executive leadership responsibility of alignment: ensuring that the institution and its resources are aligned with its mission and vision. Specifically, I have been...
by Ralph Enlow | Dec 4, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Five faculty filters To my list of critical faculty selection criteria that has thus far included credentials, contagious character, competence, and communication, I add one more: compatibility. From clearance rack to closet I am an inveterate bargain hunter. I...
by Ralph Enlow | Oct 30, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Good for film but bad for faculty Playing the part of the Captain, a cruel and sinister prison warden in the movie Cool Hand Luke, Strother Martin uttered one of classic cinema’s most memorable lines: what we have here is a failure to communicate. An amusing...
by Ralph Enlow | Oct 23, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
Criterion number three Thus far in considering the mission-critical matter of faculty selection, I have proposed two important criteria: credentials (first in sequence but least in importance), and contagious character. A third criterion is competence. You may be...
by Ralph Enlow | Oct 16, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
A price too high to pay I have been insisting in recent posts that faculty are among your most mission-critical institutional assets. Well-funded and well-led colleges will be diminished and degraded in mission effectiveness when they permit erosion in faculty...
