2002 Workshops for Department
and Division Chairs Speakers
At each Workshop location, presenters will include an attorney familiar
with the legal issues confronting chairs and two experts on the work of
department chairs. So far, the following educators have agreed to lead
Workshops (additional Workshop speakers are still to be confirmed):
Howard Altman,
Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Louisville,
serves on the national advisory board for the Kansas State University
annual Conference on Academic Chairpersons.
A specialist in faculty and chair development, Dr. Altman founded
the University of Louisville’s Center for Faculty and Staff Development
and served as Executive Director for the Kentucky Consortium on Faculty
Development, the first-of-its-kind statewide faculty development network which encompassed
all higher education institutions in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Cleveland
and Albany Workshops
Tom
Emmet, President of Higher Education Executives Associates, has led
more than 100 academic department and division chair workshops for the
American Council on Education and many campus workshops for department/division
chairs. The former professor and executive assistant to the President
of Regis University has consulted with more than 600 institutions on faculty
handbooks and faculty academic policy issues.
Albany Workshop
Susan
D. Gotsch, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
at Hartwick College, has served in that role since 1994.Dr. Gotsch
is also Professor of Sociology at the College.For three years, she led
the Workshop for New Chief Academic Officers at the CIC Institute for
Chief Academic Officers. She
is the current Chair of the American
Conference of Academic Deans. Albany
Workshop
Michael A.
Grajek, Vice President and Dean of the College at Hiram College since
1997, is also Professor of Mathematics at Hiram.
Earlier in his career, he served as Chairman of the Mathematical
Sciences Department at Hiram. Dr.
Grajek has been a Consultant-Evaluator
for the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North
Central Association of Colleges and Schools and has been a member of numerous NCA site visit teams.
Cleveland Workshop
Stephen J. Hirschfeld, partner in the San Francisco office of Curiale,
Dellaverson, Hirschfeld, Kelly & Kraemer, is the Chief Executive
Officer of the Employment Law Alliance, the world’s largest alliance of
labor and employment lawyers. His
practice in the areas of labor and employment law and related litigation
includes extensive experience in counseling higher education institutions. Mr.
Hirschfeld frequently speaks at the annual conferences of the National
Association of College and University Attorneys as well as the Stetson
University National Conference on Law and Higher Education. San
Francisco Workshop
Carla
Howery, American Sociological Association Deputy Executive Officer,
is the co-author of “Effecting Department Change to Build Excellent
and Inclusive Sociology Departments.”
She is the managing editor and a writer for the American Sociological
Association’s newsletter, Footnotes.
Her work with department chairs includes serving as a frequent
presenter at the annual American Sociological Association Chair Conference.
Charlotte Workshop
Ann Lucas, Professor
Emeritus of Organizational Development at Fairleigh Dickinson University,
has led workshops for department chairs on 175 college campuses, in addition
to more than 100 workshops at national conferences. She is the author
of Strengthening Departmental Leadership: A Team-Building Guide for
Chairs in Colleges and Universities and Leading Academic Change:
Essential Roles for Department Chairs. San Francisco Workshop
Kenneth
Kolson, Deputy Director of the Division of Research Programs,
the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cleveland Workshop
Virginia McKinley, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of
the College at Warren Wilson College, has served in this position
since 1995. Prior to becoming
chief academic officer, she was a professor of French at Warren Wilson.
She is a frequent presenter at CIC conferences and headed the program
for women chief academic officers at the Institute for Chief Academic
Officers. Charlotte Workshop
Philip Moots
is President of Moots, Cope and Stanton, a private law practice of
law specializing in legal
problems of colleges and universities and employment law. He
frequently makes presentations on legal and policy issues to college and
university administrators, faculty, attorneys, and trustees. He is on
the editorial board of Lex Collegii, a national, legal newsletter
for independent higher education.
Cleveland Workshop
Jane Chu Prey, Program
Director of the Division of Undergraduate Education, the National
Science Foundation. Charlotte
and St. Louis Workshops
Dianne
F. Sadoff, Professor of English and Chair at Miami University, has
served as a Summer Department Chair Seminar leader for the Association
of Departments of English. A
frequent conference presenter, she has also been a mock interviewer at
the Modern Language Association Convention.
She has served on the Executive Committee of the Association of
Departments of English, including a term as president.
Her professional activities include work as an external reviewer
for English Departments. St. Louis Workshop
Margaret K.
Schramm, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Honors Program at
Hartwick College, has also served as Chair of the Department of English
and Theater Arts at Hartwick. Since 1998, she has moderated discussions
for chairs at the Association of Departments of English Summer Seminars.
She has presented papers on “The Academic Blind Date: Information Sharing
During a Campus Interview” and “Empowering Job Candidates During a Campus
Visit.” Cleveland Workshop
Terry
B. Smith, Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs at Columbia College
(Missouri), has served in that role since 1996. Prior to that he was
chief academic officer at Peru State College in Nebraska. Earlier in his
career, he was a faculty member in the political science departments at
Western Maryland College and the University of Central Arkansas.
Dr. Smith has been a frequent presenter at the CIC Institute for
Chief Academic Officers and is one of the conveners of the Missouri Private
College Deans. He is an active
North Central Association consultant/evaluator. St. Louis Workshop
Kelly
Ward, Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University, co-authored
The Department Chair’s Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers
and Scholars. She conducts applied and theoretical research related to faculty
development, curricular change, and service learning in post-secondary
institutions. She is a member
of the editorial board
of the Review of Higher Education. St. Louis Workshop
Kent Weeks,
attorney with the law firm of Weeks, Turner, Anderson & Russell,
is also Professor of Practice at the George Peabody College, Vanderbilt
University. His writings include Managing Departments: Chairpersons
and the Law. Mr. Weeks serves as special counsel to several colleges
and universities as well as educational and church-related agencies.
He has addressed college administrators on emerging legal issues
and preventive law. Charlotte, St. Louis, and Albany Workshops
Daniel W. Wheeler, Coordinator in the Office of Professional and Organizational
Development and Professor of Extension at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
co-authored The Department Chair: New Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges.
Dr. Wheeler has made more than 750 conference presentations. He served
as consulting editor for the ASHE-ERIC Research Monograph Series and serves
on the Advisory Board for The Department Chair. He also has led
department chair workshops for both public and private institutions.
Charlotte Workshop
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2002
Workshops for Department and Division Chairs
