ACES: Promoting Professionalism,Collaboration, and Advocacy

Reproduced here is a version of the presidential address delivered at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) luncheon, during the American Counseling Association national convention in Atlanta on March 16, 1993. (Appendix A is a reference list the was available at the luncheon for those who found the content of the message interesting and wanted to pursue it further.)     

Faculty Learning Matters: Organizational Conditions and Contexts that Shape Faculty Learning

This study explored the relationships between faculty scholarly learning, faculty teaching learning, institutional support, faculty demographics, disciplinary groups, working conditions, and career outcomes such as retention, productivity, satisfaction, and career agency. We found that the stronger the scholarly learning faculty members reported, the more institutional and unit support they perceived for learning, the more satisfied they were, the less likely they were to intend to leave their institution, and the more career agency they reported. Similarly, we found that faculty members who reported more learning related to teaching reported a decreased intent to leave the institution and increased career agency. We draw implications for the development of work environments that support scholarly and teaching learning.     

图书馆2.0：理念、技术、组织变革

基于图书馆2.0的发展状况,探讨了图书馆2.0典型技术及其应用情况,阐明了图书馆2.0促使组织变革。并以大学图书馆为实例研究了图书馆出现的新职位,以及新职位的产生折射出的图书馆的组织变革。     

家校合作的障碍及其应对

以“不愿”与“不能”两个维度，对家校合作的障碍进行了分析和探讨，提出了消除这些障碍的基本策略，它们是：信息共享；平等与互利互惠；目标一致；接纳与兼容的学校文化氛围；循序渐进。     

克服社会与心理的障碍实现在线协作学习

有研究表明在线协作学习可以增强学习效果,减少远程学习的孤独感,触发学习动机等等。但是协作学习不可能在学习情境中自动进行,学习者需要克服社会和心理的障碍才能真正进行协作。有人认为通过网络视频会议等面对面的方式进行沟通就可以加强信任和实现协作,其实远程教育最吸引学习者的是学习没有时空限制。所以我们要创造性地使用一切教学技术和方法,激发学习者的热情,突破各种学习障碍。     

Overcoming Obstacles to Collaboration and Integration in Physical Education

This paper identifies subdisciplinary fragmentation, academic elitism, and negative stereotyping as obstacles impeding the process of collaboration among different groups within the profession of physical education. It provides examples of projects in which academics interacted among themselves and with physical education teachers, classroom teachers, and volunteer coaches. To the extent that these interactions reduce fragmentation and allow academics and practitioners to act as equal partners in the process of problem setting and problem solving, they are offered as ways to “connect” in physical education and as a basis for professional integration.     

教师绩效管理与高校组织核心目标的偏离

依据两次教学调查数据反映的问题,对教师绩效管理制度实践可能导致的组织目标偏离问题进行了分析,指出了教师管理制度的价值导向和实施工具方面存在的问题。     

Professional Development How To's: Strategies for Surveying Faculty Preferences

The primary purpose of this paper is to report the development, results, and conclusions of a university campus-wide faculty development needs assessment survey. The survey is unique in that it asked faculty to first identify their professional goals and then select activities to help them reach the desired goals. The second purpose is to discuss how faculty at different stages of their careers have different goals.Christine B. Eleser: She also serves as the Chairperson of the University Faculty Excellence CommiteeeSheila W. Chauvin: which she also serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine USA     

组织文化差异对师资队伍建设的影响及对策

校企联合是培养专兼职教师的一种有效途径,但在实施的过程中,由于双方组织文化深层差异,影响了高职院校师资队伍整体水平的提高.从组织文化的物质层面、行为层面、制度层面和精神层面分析在校企联合培养师资的过程中,校企文化差异对师资队伍建设的影响,探讨几种整合校企文化的具体途径.     

校企合作项目的实施策略——以三维动画技术在栏目包装项目中的应用为例

栏目包装对于节目成败起着日益重要的作用,现代栏目包装对数字技术依赖越来越高,三维动画技术的应用为栏目包装提供了多元化的新选择和无限的创作可能性,是未来行业发展的必然趋势。本文研究了在高校三维动画专业引入栏目包装校企合作项目时面临的问题和发展空间,同时给出了校企合作项目顺利实施的策略与方法,将对教学实践、学生就业。     

Negotiating Cultural Boundaries Through Collaboration: The Roles of Motivation,Advocacy and Process

This case study investigated the roles of organizational culture and the individual in collaborative processes at a large, public university. Results indicate that individuals who are motivated by a belief in shared mission use their awareness of the collaborative process to advocate for themselves and others, leading to stronger and more cognitively complex collaborations across organizational cultural differences. These findings provide insight into the individual’s role in the collaborative process and are the foundation for recommendations for ways to bridge the loosely-coupled and diverse components of higher education.     

Online Course Evaluations: Faculty Perspective and Strategies for Improved Response Rates

This article provides an overview of issues involved with traditional paper versus online course evaluations. Data were gathered from university faculty, who transitioned from traditional paper to online course evaluations. Faculty preferred traditional course evaluations versus online course evaluations by a small margin. However, faculty overwhelmingly believed that traditional course evaluations result in higher response rates from students. Incentives were also believed by faculty to increase student response rates. Suggestions from faculty on how to improve student response rates are also provided in this article.     

Mentoring of Women Faculty: The Role of Organizational Politics and Culture

This article reports on a key finding of a phenomenological study on the mentoring experiences of women faculty. The study revealed the political climate of the organization as an essential attribute of this experience. Women faculty identified organizational culture and gender issues that affected the mentoring they received. This study suggests the need for human resource and organization development initiatives to facilitate the provision of academic mentoring for women faculty—individually, departmentally, and culturally—as a means to foster transformation and change in academic institutions.Sharon K. Gibson is an Assistant Professor of organization learning and development at the University of St. Thomas. She received her Ph.D. in adult education from the University of Minnesota. She holds an M.S.W. degree and graduate certificate in labor and industrial relations from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from Cornell University. Her research interests focus on developmental relationships including mentoring and coaching, strategic human resource and organization development, and adult learning.     

中外合作办学的师资问题及对策探析

中外合作办学对教师素质提出了更高的要求,文章在分析中外合作办学师资队伍目前存在的主要问题的基础上,提出了提高认识、教师准入、稳定队伍、加强培训、严格考评等措施和建议.     

Striving for equitable classroom assessments for linguistic minorities: Strategies for and effects of revising life science items

Striving for equitable assessments that can contribute to classroom learning for linguistic minorities is a goal of increasing importance as the national population of English language learners continues to rise. This study investigated classroom assessments for English learners in middle school life science courses in two California schools. A framework for equitable classroom assessments, “McCes—Sounds like Success,” was used to refine and evaluate assessments in the study. Ways to improve two written assessments for advanced English learners were developed through teacher research and tested with a pretest/posttest design. Eleven changes to the items were developed, such as adding visual supports and dividing prompts into smaller units. Regression analyses of raw and Rasch modeled data from the pretest/posttest showed that both English only students and advanced English learners scored significantly better on the modified classroom assessments. A new perspective on validating equitable classroom assessments as opposed to standardized assessments for English learners is discussed. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 44: 864–881, 2007     

美国高等学校教师共同治理的组织结构与效率——以教师评议会为例

自从大学成立以来,教师参与大学治理一直是高等学校组织管理的一种普遍实践.然而,这种参与方式在发展的过程中,常常对共享权力的目标和结果模糊不清,特别是在超出学术课程范围的事务上更是如此.以教师评议会领导者和大学管理者为调查对象,探究美国高等学校教师评议会运作的组织过程与效率,发现美国大学教师评议会的组织方式需要完善,尤其是促进教师参与评议会的工作方法有限;评议会的总体工作效率堪忧,不能服务公共的最大利益,教师评议会领导者认为他们确实能有效地为自己的学校作出重要决策,而大学管理者的认同度则较低.调查结果使人们质疑教师评议会是否实现了他们最初的目标,以及他们是否有效地向有关管理者和整个校园传达了他们的工作和优先事项.     

Collaboration between Faculty Members and School Counselors: An Experience from a Case-based Course

This article describes the experience in Spain of a specific collaboration between university teachers and school counselors, which used case-based approaches in a teacher training program. The collaboration ran for four years and involved 300 graduate students, two university teachers, and six school counselors. Three basic features enabled this collaboration: a) horizontal relationships, b) a spirit of mutual help and confidence, and c) autonomy. The outcome of the experience can be evaluated in terms of both the case-based teaching process itself and its impact on student learning and the professional development of teachers and counselors involved.     

Organizational Trust in Times of Challenge: The Impact on Faculty and Administrators

Higher education institutions have faced increased social, cultural, economic, and political challenges in recent decades. In this study we used the socio-cultural construct of trust to understand how organizational responses to external challenges impact the relationship between faculty members and administrators. Using extensive interviews, observations, and document analysis from a small, private college, we considered how intentionality, a safe campus climate, expertise, participatory governance, and transparency impact stakeholders’ perceptions of organizational trust.     

Organizational Capacity and Political Activities of Canadian University Faculty Associations

In this study we examine the organizational capacity and political activities of Canadian university faculty associations in the development of higher education policy. We attempt to describe, from the perspective of the faculty associations, their political role both internal and extenral to the university and the extent to which faculty associations perceive themselves as being able to influence issues of policy. We report the findings of a national survey of university faculty associations including data on organizational structure, finance, perceived influence on institutional and provincial government, policy, services and programs, and other factors related to their role as political pressure groups.