Inspiration and motivation dominate my conversations with fellow designers and design educators these days. As a design educator, I frequently emphasize to my students the importance of breaking away from the computer…
Musing
Leadership: Trust
Thus far in this series, I’ve addressed the leadership challenges of transparency and conflict. Originally, I intended to delve into the topic of proper delegation and management for this final post. However,…
Leadership: Transparency
In my previous post, I explored the significance of conflict and discourse. While discourse traditionally follows a conflict, proactively addressing issues beforehand can potentially prevent the conflict altogether. For this post I…
Leadership: Conflict
Recently, I was asked how I handle conflict as a leader, and it occurred to me that my approach has evolved significantly over time. Depending on when you knew me, my response…
2022 in Review Part 2 – Teaching and Service
At a research-based institution teaching and service are traditionally seen as lower priority to research and other scholarly/creative activities. If you take a dive through my blog you’ll see plenty of posts…
2022 in Review Part 1 – Leadership and Research
A common branding exercise is to take a product or service and condense it into a few words. This helps us to determine our “idea” of it or its “brand” so to…
The Importance of Positivity
In academia it is easy to find yourself surrounded by negativity, especially if you are in the arts. There are copious amounts of reasons that professors and/or administrators may find themselves wallowing…
The Collective Part III: Unity Through Challenge
I have talked a lot about what makes a student organization important and I’ve recently covered some useful tips in advising and running a student organization. However, there is a major factor…
The Collective Part II: Best Practices
Student organizations can and should be more than a “club.” The term club suggests that it is just a bunch of friends who get together to have fun and talk about other…
Presidential
In academia there are ranks or positions for just about everything. There are major divisions of faculty and staff, and each division comes with a million different subdivisions and many different ranks…