Slow your role: Troubling (our) assumptions about higher education

Abstract

This semester-long discussion activity is designed for onboarding faculty at any rank or status, including new faculty or graduate teaching assistant/associate orientations, faculty learning communities, mid-career professional development programs, transition to administrative roles such as department chair or associate dean, and the like.

Course

Organizational culture analysis for higher education personnel at any rank or status, including tenure-track or lecturer faculty; graduate teaching assistants; doctoral students; academic senators; university administrators, cabinet members, and other management personnel; faculty learning communities; or faculty transitioning to leadership roles.

Objectives

By the end of this activity, participants will be able to: (1) identify aspects of their institution’s organizational culture; (2) appraise how neoliberalism shapes higher education in general and their own organizations in particular; and (3) develop and articulate ideas for post-pandemic changes to higher education in general and their own organizations in particular.