Session for Online Program Directors at MSU on November 12, 2024 Preview and Preparation I am certain that your online program is making a vital contribution to the priorities of the MSU 2030 Strategic Plan. To help us start out our session by emphasizing our assets and the contributions our programs are making to the…
As of spring 2023, over 100 alumni have graduated from the Master of Arts Program and one student has completed the Graduate Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching. Most of these students continue to hold jobs and positions of leadership as language teachers across the U.S. and in several other countries. The fact that they are…
How does a program director chart a path to intellectual leadership – especially if it seems to lead farther away from productivity as a researcher?
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 least two of them and…
I have learned to embrace the inevitable. And I will confess: I like teaching online. Truly.
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 heavy emphasis on research, as…