Open Access14: Playing Well With Others: Academic Development as a Team Sport
Author(s) -
Chism Nancy Van Note
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2004.tb00412.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , join (topology) , center (category theory) , public relations , team development , chose , political science , sociology , engineering ethics , engineering , knowledge management , computer science , chemistry , mathematics , combinatorics , artificial intelligence , law , crystallography
An important first step to attacking significant institutional problems is working across the organizational silos that encompass campus units. This chapter draws upon an experience in collaboration through which an academic development center chose to partner with a variety of campus units to address a vexing problem facing many campuses: unacceptable rates of first‐year student retention. The chapter then goes beyond the case to identify the kinds of collaborations that can be created to treat other pressing academic issues and highlight characteristics of successful collaborations that academic development centers can initiate or join.