| Time | Agenda Item |
| 8:00-8:30am |
Arrive, Receive packets |
| 8:30-8:50am |
Welcome
Margaret Weigers Vitullo, Director, ASA Academic and Professional Affairs |
| 8:50-10:00am |
Opening Keynote
“Organized Anarchies in an Age of Accountability"
Mitchell Stevens, Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University
Director, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) |
| 10:00-10:15am |
Break |
| 10:15-11:30 |
Panel Discussion
Lessons in Conflict Management Based in Experience
“Managing Interpersonal Conflict”
Diane Pike, former Chair – Augsburg College
“Managing Conflict Around Curriculum”
Jon Bloch, Chair – Southern Connecticut State University
“Managing Conflict Around Budgets”
Tracy Ore, former Associate Provost & Chair, St. Cloud State University
“Managing Threats to Programs”
Cecilia Menjivar, Program Director – Arizona State University
|
| 11:40-12:50pm |
Concurrent Roundtables I
Taking on the Role of Department Chair – Navigating the Spaces Between Long-Standing Norms and New Approaches
Thomas Van Valey, former Chair – Western Michigan University -
This One is Serious - Bringing Ethical Issues to the ASA Committee on Professional
Ethics (COPE)
Sally T. Hillsman, ASA Executive Director and Ex Officio Liaison to the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics
PhD Departments - Supporting Excellence in Research Amidst Demands for Higher Quality Undergraduate Education
Speaker not yet confirmed Masters Programs in Sociology – Are Programs Closing? Do Graduates Get Jobs?
Roberta Spalter-Roth, Director – ASA Department of Research and Development Public Sociology as a Bridge Between 2 and 4 year Colleges
David Levinson, President – Norwalk Community College |
| 12:50-2:10 |
Lunch and ASA Registration (1 hr 20 min) |
| 2:10-3:20 |
Concurrent Roundtables II
Can a Multi-Disciplinary Department Become a Collegial and Trusted
Learning Community?
Thomas Calhoun, Chair and Associate Provost - Jackson State University Building an Academic Community with Students and Faculty that Bridges Political Difference
Amy Binder, Acting Provost - Thurgood Marshall College, UC San Diego Conducting Performance Counseling with Faculty – and What to Do When It Doesn’t Work
Speaker not yet confirmed Opportunities and Dangers of Program Review
Theodore C. Wagenaar, former Chair - Miami University Race and Mentoring in PhD Programs – Empirical Evidence that Race Matters, But Not In the Ways You Might Think
Roberta Spalter-Roth, Director – ASA Department of Research and Development |
|
3:30-4:40
|
Concurrent Roundtables III (most repeat from Roundtables II)
Can a Multi-Disciplinary Department Become a Collegial and Trusted
Learning Community?
Thomas Calhoun, Chair and Associate Provost - Jackson State University Building an Academic Community with Students and Faculty that Bridges Political Difference
Amy Binder, Acting Provost, Thurgood Marshall College, UC San Diego Conducting Performance Counseling with Faculty – and What to Do When It Doesn’t Work
Speaker not yet confirmed Opportunities and Dangers of Program Review
Theodore C. Wagenaar, former Chair - Miami University Exploring Department Accreditation in Applied and Clinical
Norma Winston, Chair, Commission on Accreditation of Applied and Clinical Sociology
|
| 4:40-5:25 |
Closing Keynote
Addressing Professorial Improprieties -- Preemptive and Ex Post Facto Strategies for Department Leaders
John M. Braxton
Editor, Journal of College Student Development
Associate Editor, Higher Education: A Handbook of Theory and Research
Professor of Education, Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program
Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
|
| 5:25-5:35 |
Thank you and evaluations |
