Your November EAB Briefing Monthly Round-Up: Career Development
Greetings!
The end of the year is near, which means it’s the perfect time for leaders and faculty alike to reflect on where they want to grow next. To help you set up a successful second semester, we’ve rounded up some of our best career development insights. From winning over top research talent to improving your employment web pages, these strategies will keep you ahead of the curve. After all, investing in growth—your own and others—can make all the difference.
How to win the race for top research talent
The shift in funding priorities toward large, complex grants has created a ‘winner-take-more’ dynamic, making the search for research superstars increasingly difficult. Over the past year, we spoke with 100+ provosts, VPRs, and deans to gain insight into effective recruitment and development strategies for standout talent. Here are the top tactics we learned and the steps you can take to make your institution stand out in a competitive, higher education landscape.
What 30+ rising higher education leaders learned in our Spring 2024 fellowship
EAB’s Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship is a six-month, cohort-based experience that helps education leaders network with their peers and deepen their knowledge of the most critical issues that affect institutional strategy. This past spring cohorts’ capstone projects addressed a broad range of challenges, from student retention to workforce development and space planning. Take a deeper dive into these topics from each fellows’ capstone presentation, where they showcase their project and early outcomes.
3 key lessons in building systems for principal success
It’s no secret that effective principals lead to better student outcomes and happier teachers. But how can districts identify—and develop—that kind of leadership? We previously provided a study of best practices to foster strategic leadership competencies among principals; however, since publishing that research, we found three additional lessons that can help your district better support your principals’ growth and success.
Your institution needs to incorporate these 3 types of faculty AI policies
An AI-infused future is coming, and faculty must transform what and how they teach to prepare students. However, fear and uncertainty are stalling faculty progress. The good news is that faculty don’t need to become AI users to engage with AI in the classroom. Read the following insights to learn how your institution can create clear faculty AI policies that outline how faculty need to engage students with the reality of AI in their teaching and curricular practice.
Improve your hiring with these tips to update your employment webpage
As a professional and adult education leader, what can you do to your employment websites to stand out and attract capable candidates? More than 1,200 schools have sought over 20,000 staff in the past year, which makes finding and keeping qualified candidates a major challenge. In this blog post, we’ve pointed out three essential strategies you can use to enhance your employment web pages and improve professional, continuing, and online education staff hiring.
Until next time,
The EAB Briefing Team
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