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Facilities Staff Ensure Standing Room Only at Schafer University

Posted on Thursday, February 3rd 2011
Tags: collaboration, facilities, maintenance, management
Facilities Staff Ensure Standing Room Only at Schafer University
by Erica Price Freelance Writer Parents and students at Schafer University will need to put their graduation celebrations on hold for another week. The annual winter commencement exercises have been rescheduled, according to a press release issued by the SU Office of Communications. This change is due to a revarnishing of the auditorium seats as [...]

Faculty in Uproar Over Connotations of “Development Day”

Posted on Tuesday, January 11th 2011
Tags: collaboration, faculty, relations, staff
Faculty in Uproar Over Connotations of “Development Day”
by Monty Tufnel Freelance Writer Faculty at Gwynn Oaks College in Oak Park, IN staged a one-day sit-in to protest the college’s newly designated “Development Day.” The all-day “Faculty In-Service,” as it was called for the last twenty years, was recently renamed at the suggestion of new president, Myron D. Schrenk. Jordan Wilkes Hammer, chair [...]

Meeting Minutes from Campus Collaboration Committee

Posted on Thursday, February 4th 2010
Tags: collaboration, group, synergy, team, work
Meeting Minutes from Campus Collaboration Committee
In case you missed last week’s two-hour meeting of the Campus Collaboration Committee, we’ve posted a summary of events. 10:00 a.m. Committee chair Marjorie Whiggins read the minutes from the previous CCC meeting. 10:10 a.m. Ms. Whiggins praised all of the committee members for being so wonderful and collaborative. 10:15 a.m. Whiggins gave thorough descriptions [...]

Individual Appointed to Oversee Systemic Change

Posted on Friday, September 25th 2009
Tags: agent, change management, collaboration, culture, leadership, model, systemic
Individual Appointed to Oversee Systemic Change
Phillmore College announced the creation of a new Associate Chancellor for Systemic Change position, to be filled by Dr. Juanita Jakobson. “There are lots of problems at the College that can only be solved through a comprehensive cultural change,” said Dr. Jakobson. The president is too busy to work on the systemic changes, so I’m [...]

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