Title IX Compliance, Clery Act, VAWA, and the Department Chair

This interactive research based workshop will review findings regarding expectations of Chairs in facilitating compliance efforts by the University in both traditional and distance learning environments. Chairs will explore through case study analysis how compliance with Title IX, Clery Act, and Violence Against Women Act serves their department

Evolution of Department Chairs – Analysis of Academic Chairperson’s Conference Proceedings

The Academic Chairperson’s Conference has been provided guidance to chairs for 34 years. Coding of titles and descriptions of presentations given at the first 34 ACCs provides trends in topics which are of interest to chairs. This session explores continual themes, cyclical topics, resolved issues, and emerging trends

Competency Map of the Academic Chair

The growth of Competency Based Education (CBE) has led to the strengthening of programs in many fields. This trend has introduced new opportunities to assess student progress and program outcomes. Competency Based Chairing uses these same tools to develop stronger chairs. This interactive session explores ways of getting the most out of professional competencies in our growth as chairs

Giving Up the Chair Role and Rejoining the Faculty

Chairpersons often return to faculty with little planning or preparation. For many, this transition can lead to role confusion, performance issues, loss of relationships and feelings of inadequacy. This interactive presentation, informed by research, will equip chairs and administrators with critical planning components in support of successful return to faculty

Working Professionals and Subject Matter Experts in the Classroom

Integrating real world expertise is a positive and growing trend in higher education. Building positive relationship with working professionals and subject matter experts has benefits and pitfalls. This session explores the pros and cons of using working professionals and subject matter experts in the classroom and in course development

Leveraging What Online Offers in Evaluating Courses and Instructors

At most institutions of higher education COVID-19 forced the delivery of courses on-line. This has required department chairs to re-think traditional, on-ground, faculty evaluative strategies. This session explores the benefits of applying readily available, on-line course methodologies and metrics to enhance chair support and evaluation of departmental faculty teaching efforts

Cash limits and the control of public expenditure in the United Kingdom

This paper uses a generalisation of intervention analysis to examine quarterly data on UK public expenditure from 1963:1 to 1992:4. The aim is to test whether government policy, and particularly the introduction of cash limits, had any significant effect upon the level of real public expenditure. Four series are examined. These are for (i) central government consumption, (ii) local authority consumption, (iii) general government capital formation and (iv) transfer payments. No evidence is found of intervention effects that can be attributed to cash limits.peer-reviewe

A determination of the mean values of the #19 test for various age levels and a comparison to those of Donders and Duane

The purpose of this study is to determine the mean value and variability of the amplitude of accommodation as designated by the number nineteen finding in the standard analytical routine and to compare these to those means of Donders and Duane

Winter Conditions Influence Biological Responses of Migrating Hummingbirds

Conserving biological diversity given ongoing environmental changes requires the knowledge of how organisms respond biologically to these changes; however, we rarely have this information. This data deficiency can be addressed with coordinated monitoring programs that provide field data across temporal and spatial scales and with process-based models, which provide a method for predicting how species, in particular migrating species that face different conditions across their range, will respond to climate change. We evaluate whether environmental conditions in the wintering grounds of broad-tailed hummingbirds influence physiological and behavioral attributes of their migration. To quantify winter ground conditions, we used operative temperature as a proxy for physiological constraint, and precipitation and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as surrogates of resource availability. We measured four biological response variables: molt stage, timing of arrival at stopover sites, body mass, and fat. Consistent with our predictions, we found that birds migrating north were in earlier stages of molt and arrived at stopover sites later when NDVI was low. These results indicate that wintering conditions impact the timing and condition of birds as they migrate north. In addition, our results suggest that biologically informed environmental surrogates provide a valuable tool for predicting how climate variability across years influences the animal populations