· investigations · early intervention · academic governance
Some matters that escalate to formal investigation could have been resolved in a 30-minute conversation. The boundary between the two matters more than most institutions acknowledge.
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· department leadership · academic governance · difficult situations
Sometimes the issue in a department is not the faculty or the culture. It is the chair. And the institution's options for addressing this are uniquely constrained.
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· academic governance · decision-making · academic leadership
An academic decision reached by a process people respect will hold. The same decision reached by ambush will be relitigated for years.
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· academic governance · policy interpretation · faculty grievances
Most academic disputes have already been resolved in writing somewhere in the institution's own documents. The work is finding it and reading it carefully.
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