The Essential Academic Dean is about the “how” of academic leadership. Based on a series of workshops given by the author on college administration and management, each topic deals concisely with the most important information deans need at their fingertips when faced with a particular challenge or opportunity. Written both as a comprehensive guide to the academic deanship and as a ready reference to be consulted when needed, this book emphasizes proven solutions over untested theories and stresses what deans need to know now in order to be most successful as academic leaders.

The Essential Academic Dean: A Practical Guide to College Leadership

Education & Teaching

Buller, Jeffrey L.

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

The Essential College Professor is about the "how" and "why" of being a faculty member today. Based on the author's series of highly successful faculty development workshops, each chapter deals concisely with the most important information college professors need at their fingertips when confronted by a particular challenge or faced with an exciting opportunity. Written both as a comprehensive guide to an academic career and as a ready reference to be consulted whenever needed, The Essential College Professor emphasizes proven solutions over untested theories and stresses what faculty members have to know now in order to be successful in their careers. Each chapter is concluded by a short exercise that faculty members can perform to help them, for instance, completely revise a course by restructuring the syllabus and course materials, bring new life to a research project by reframing it as a book proposal or grant application, and so on.

The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career

Jossey-Bass

The first in-depth, comprehensive guide to Microsoft's suite of virtualization products Virtualization is a hot topic for IT because of the potential it offers for serious economic benefits. While other books treat server virtualization alone, this comprehensive guide provides a complete virtual strategy. You will learn how to deploy a complete virtualization stack with Microsoft's offerings in server virtualization, application virtualization, presentation virtualization, and desktop virtualization. Written by Microsoft technology product specialists, this guide provides real-world focus, enabling you to create a complete IT system that is highly efficient and cost effective. <ul>
<li>Covers Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V 2.0, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)</li> <li>Demonstrates how to deploy a virtual infrastructure-from the server to the desktop</li> <li>Goes beyond any other book on Microsoft virtualization</li> <li>Covers the highly anticipated new feature Live Migration</li> </ul>
This guide, part of the popular Sybex Mastering series, offers every IT administrator a road map for implementing an efficient and successful virtualization project.

Mastering Microsoft Virtualization

Computers & Technology

Cerling, Tim

Operating Systems

Sybex

Essential Resources for Academic Deans

Schools & Teaching

It can seem at times as though all of academic administration today is focused only on the need for continual change and the endless pursuit of "the big idea." But most academic leaders, from department chairs and program directors through university presidents and chancellors, are far too busy helping their institutions flourish for them to divert critical energy and resources to yet another untried theory or management principle. Academic Leadership Day by Day takes an entirely different approach to developing your proven academic leadership: It introduces one practical and field-tested idea each day for an entire academic year. Rather than requiring you to devote days or even weeks to administrative training (which may prove to be of little use in the end), this manual gives you no-nonsense suggestions that you can consider on even your busiest days. Experiment with the suggestions made each day, discover what works for you, and then build on your successes for the benefit of your institution and its programs. Significant improvements often result from small, gradual, and consistent efforts, and Academic Leadership Day by Day is your guide to becoming a more accomplished, confident academic leader a few minutes at a time.

Academic Leadership Day by Day: Small Steps That Lead to Great Success

Classically Romantic

What did Richard Wagner know about ancient Greece? More importantly, what did he think he knew? How did Wagner's attitudes towards the past shape his construction of the Ring cycle?Classically Romantic attempts to answer these questions through an examination of Wagner's intellectual background and the structure of the Ring itself. The book explores the differences between Wagner's "romantic classicism" and traditional "philological classicism." Anticipating the "Great Books" movement of the twentieth century, Wagner's views were an interesting blend of classical formalism and romantic idealism. Wagner believed, for instance, that classical literature was important, not because it shed light on the past, but because it had "continued relevance" to each succeeding generation. The classics purified and redeemed ancient society, Wagner concluded, and only an equivalent type of work could purify and redeem the modern world. It was out of a desire to create a "modern classic" that Wagner's four-drama cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, arose.In Wagner's romantic view of the past, Greek tragedy was the only perfectly unified form of art. The composer believed that, in ancient tragedy, all the arts worked together harmoniously so as to guide the audience towards a single, significant purpose: a harmonious social order. In this way, although Wagner saw himself as imitating classical models, his ultimate goal was identical to that of many Romantic Age social reformers.Fundamental aspects of Wagnerian drama may thus ultimately be traced to the composer's unusual combination of the classical and the romantic. For example, Wagner's central concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the "total work of art" in which every artistic element blended perfectly with every other artistic element, has a direct connection to the composer's desire to recreate classical tragedy, the one form of art in which he believed those elements had been unified. By examining each of Aristotle's six constituent elements of tragedy (plot, music, speech, thought, character, and spectacle), Classically Romantic demonstrates what Wagner envisioned when he sought a perfect "union" of all the components of art. Perhaps most important of the book's contributions is its demonstration that the leitmotif, usually regarded solely as a musical phenomenon, was actually a thematic principle of construction employed on many levels of the drama. Wagner introduced were repeated themes of plot, characterization, speech, and imagery, all endowed with meaning in a manner precisely parallel to that of the musical leitmotivs. Moreover, since Wagner dictated nearly every aspect of how the original productions of his work were staged, even visual elements of the drama could be given a consistent, "thematic" role. Colors, images of light and darkness, and mist all serve as "visual leitmotivs" in much the same way that one can also speak of musical leitmotivs, leitmotivs of plot, character leitmotivs, and so on.Finally, Wagner's desire to bring all social classes together in a festival similar to the Great Dionysia of ancient Athens helps explain why the composer created the Wagner Societies throughout Germany in his own lifetime and why the Festspielhaus of Bayreuth was established as it was, with annual festivals rather than continual performances...

Arts & Photography

Music

Xlibris

What did Richard Wagner know about ancient Greece? More importantly, what did he think he knew? How did his attitudes shape the Ring cycle? Classically Romantic explores how Wagner's ideas about the past were shaped, not by the classical world itself, but by the Romantic Age's select view of antiquity.

AuthorHouse

BEST PRACTICES IN FACULTY EVALUATION 
Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation is designed to be a hands-on guide for academics and administrators who want to become more effective and more confident in their handling of the important task of faculty evaluation. This vital resource offers chairs, deans, and members of evaluation committees the practical information they need to perform fair and accurate faculty evaluation. 
The book covers best practices in all forms of review and evaluation and includes directions that are designed to help evaluators understand how to use the information about faculty performance, convey clear messages about priorities, and protect themselves in cases when an appeal or grievance is likely. Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation is filled with practical advice and answers to commonly asked questions about oral and written reviews and evaluations, annual performance appraisals and evaluations, probationary and pretenure reviews, posttenure reviews, merit evaluations, tenure evaluations, promotion evaluations, and much more. 
In today's complex academic environment there is no longer a "typical" full-time, tenure-eligible faculty member. The staff of most colleges and universities includes increasing numbers of part-time faculty members, non-tenure-track faculty members, and even online course instructors whom the reviewer never meets in person. To address the wide range of diverse faculty members, the author offers clear guidance for evaluating both tenure-tracked faculty and nontraditional faculty members.

Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation

THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR 
This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the "how" of academic administration: for instance, how do you cultivate a potential donor for much-needed departmental resources? How do you persuade your department members to work together more harmoniously? How do you keep the people who report to you motivated and capable of seeing the big picture? 
Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded, this classic resource covers a broad spectrum of timely topics and is now truly more than a guide―it's a much-needed desk reference that tells you "everything you need to know to be a department chair." The Essential Department Chair contains information on topics such as essentials of creating a strategic plan, developing and overseeing a budget, key elements of fundraising, preparing for the role of chair, meeting the challenges of mentoring to increase productivity, and creating a more collegial atmosphere. The book also explores the chair's role in the search process, shows how to conduct a successful interview and what to do when it's time to let someone go. And the author includes suggestions for the best practices to adopt when doing an evaluation or assessment. 
The Essential Department Chair, Second Edition, contains a wealth of new, realistic case studies to equip leaders in this pivotal position to excel in departmental and institutional life.

The Essential Department Chair: A Comprehensive Desk Reference

Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Academic Leaders

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The Essential Academic Dean: A Practical Guide to College Leadership

The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career

Mastering Microsoft Virtualization

Essential Resources for Academic Deans

Academic Leadership Day by Day: Small Steps That Lead to Great Success

Classically Romantic

Classically Romantic

Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation

The Essential Department Chair: A Comprehensive Desk Reference

Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Academic Leaders