Leadership in Place: How Academic Professionals Can Find Their Leadership VoiceISBN: 978-1-933371-18-4
Hardcover
272 pages
December 2006, Jossey-Bass
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Jon F. Wergin is professor of educational studies in the
Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. He
received his Ph.D. in educational psychology in 1973 from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For nearly 30 years he held faculty
positions at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), serving in
both administrative and faculty roles, and won awards for both
teaching (1996) and scholarship (1998). As a faculty member in the
School of Education he taught courses in adult and higher education
and coordinated the Preparing Future Faculty for the Professions
program through VCU's Graduate School. In 1992, he took a leave
from VCU to be the founding director of the Forum on Faculty Roles
and Rewards within the American Association for Higher Education
(AAHE), and continued an active association with AAH until its
demise in 2004, focusing his scholarship on evaluation and change
in academic departments. His monograph The Collaborative
Department (1994) was the first published by AAHE under the
auspices of the Forum. His other books and monographs include
Educating Professionals (1993, with L. Curry), which won the best
Scholarly Publication award from Division I of the American
Educational Research Association; Analyzing Faculty Workload
(1994): Analyzing and Evaluating Educational Research (1996,
2001, and 2005, with J. McMillan): and Departmental Assessment:
How Some Campuses are Effectively Evaluating the Collective Work of
Faculty (AAHE, 2000, with J. N. Swingen), Which reports the
results of a national survey of departmental assessment practices
of the Pew Charitable Trusts. He has also published numerous
journal articles on such topics as professional education,
assessment, and the restructuring of faculty work, including two
articles in Change magazine on accreditation and student learning
(2005). His most recent book is Departments That Work: Creating
and Sustaining Cultures of Excellence in Academic Departments
(Anker, 2003).
Dr. Wergin is past Divisional vice president of the American Educational Research Association (Division I, Education in the Professions), and has served as chief evaluator of two national centers for research in higher education. In 2003, he completed work on a project funded by the Pew Chartable Trusts aimed at integrating efforts to assess student learning by the eight regional accrediting associations. He is a member of the National Academy for Higher Education Leadership, and has consulted with scores of national associations, accrediting bodies, and colleges and universities on issues related to evaluation and change in higher education.
Dr. Wergin is past Divisional vice president of the American Educational Research Association (Division I, Education in the Professions), and has served as chief evaluator of two national centers for research in higher education. In 2003, he completed work on a project funded by the Pew Chartable Trusts aimed at integrating efforts to assess student learning by the eight regional accrediting associations. He is a member of the National Academy for Higher Education Leadership, and has consulted with scores of national associations, accrediting bodies, and colleges and universities on issues related to evaluation and change in higher education.