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Student Workers in Higher Ed Web Offices Research Results
I hope that everyone is having or has had a great time at HighEdWebthis year! If you couldn’t make it, hopefully we’ll see you next year. For those who missed it or would like to refer back to it, I wanted to make the information related to my session on student workers in [...]
Continue reading...Salary versus Autonomy
Like many of you, I’ve read Director of Web Marketing’s Equal Pay for Equal Work post from a few weeks ago. (It’s worth a look, if you haven’t read it.) If we want to recruit experts, it would make sense that we may have to lure them in with expert-level pay. (I’d add to this that depending [...]
Continue reading...Equal Pay for Equal Work
By this point, it’s no secret that most universities are experiencing some kind of budget pinch for the next year (or two, or three, or way more). It sucks, and for quite a number of reasons. Education is the cornerstone of an advanced society, and when government starts hacking away at it (I’m looking at [...]
Continue reading...Web Leadership’s Role in Higher Ed
Last week, I was fortunate enough to graduate in the second annual Pittsburg State University Leadership Class. This is a program modeled after other similar programs around the state and nation, programs which are designed to groom and cultivate forward minded people into folks capable of stepping up and contributing to the growth and development [...]
Continue reading...The Virtues of Delegation
Two weeks ago, I felt compelled to write about the black hole of academic overthink that is my calendar. Over the years, and even as recently as in the post itself, I have sought advice on how to manage my calendar better.
Continue reading...Calendar Clutter & Meeting Madness
It seems I’ve fallen off the radar this month and so have some of my colleagues. Are we dodging the new Facebook? Nope. Now that mainstream media has let all our former classmates, family and coworkers know about Twitter, are we ducking our newest followers? Nope.
Continue reading...What the Doctor Ordered: Training, Technology and Leadership
I’m not a doctor, but I like to play one in my current role as a Technology Training Coordinator. I like present to our faculty and staff over MediaSite in costume as “Doctor Nikki”. But no matter what role I’ve had: whether “Dr. Nikki” the trainer, Technology Trainingthe IT, or Technology Trainingthe leader, I realize [...]
Continue reading...“Repent! Collaborator,” Said the Higher Ed Beancounterman
“Even in the cubicles of the hierarchy, where fear was generated, seldom suffered, he was called the Ticktockman. But no one called him that to his mask. You don’t call a man a hated name, not when that man is capable of revoking the minutes, the hours, the days and nights, the years or your [...]
Continue reading...What’s an Appropriate Response Time to Inquirers?
About ten years ago when e-mail became mainstream at colleges/universities, departments were skittish about having a separate dedicated e-mail account as a way for their customers to contact them. They worried about work load creep, and customers expecting a quick turn around time for responses. Most of these folks still preferred to be tied up [...]
Continue reading...Nothing Personal, But…
Way back in the day when I was just an aspiring Guru—mid-November, to be precise, I promised that I had more to say on change, and, boy, do I ever. In fact, as someone who enjoys blogging, I have quite a lot to say on a lot of things. It only takes a comment on [...]
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