DALE W. LICK
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Dr. Lick, a former President of Georgia Southern University, University of
Maine, and Florida State University and presently University Professor in the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University, teaches and directs doctoral students in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, and works on educational (K-12 and Higher Education) and organizational projects involving transformational leadership, change creation (leading and managing change), learning organizations, distance and distributed learning, school improvement, enhanced student performance, educational technology, interactive annotation learning, assessment and collaborative document preparation systems, strategic planning, and visioning. A mathematician by academic training, Dr. Lick previously held administrative and faculty positions at Port Huron Junior College, University of Tennessee, Drexel University, Russell Sage College, and Old Dominion University, and served as a visiting research mathematician at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, an adjunct professor of bio-mathematics at Temple University, and a scientific consultant to the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
Included in over 50 national and international biographical listings, Dr. Lick is
the author of more than 90 professional articles, books, and proceedings, and 285 original
newspaper columns. His recent books are: Whole-Faculty Study Groups: A Powerful
Way to Change Schools and Enhance Learning (with Murphy), Corwin Press, 1998;
New Directions in Mentoring: Creating a Culture of Synergy (with Mullen), Falmer Press (London), 1999; Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Student-Based Professional Development (with Murphy), 2001; Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning (with Murphy), Corwin Press, 2005; and The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook: Improving Schools and Enhancing Student Learning (with Murphy), Corwin Press, 2006.
Dr. Lick’s recent other publications are: “Mega-Level Strategic Planning: Beyond Conventional Wisdom” and “Change Creation: The Rest of the Planning Story” (both with Kaufman), Chapters 1 and 2 in Technology-Driven Planning: Principles to Practice, Society for College and University Planning, 2000; “Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Facilitating Mentoring for School-Wide Change,” Theory Into Practice, Winter 2000; “Transforming Higher Education: A New Vision, Learning, and Change Management,” International Journal of Innovative Higher Education, Vol. 13, 1999; “The Impact of Technology-Driven Change,” Quarterly Review of Distance Learning, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2000; “Principals as Study Group Leaders” (with Murphy), Journal of Staff Development, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2001; “Change Creation” (with Kaufman), Planning in Higher Education, Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 2000-1; “Change Creation and Change Management: Partners in Human Performance Improvement” (with Kaufman), Performance in Practice, Winter Issue, January 2001; "Leading Change: Creating the Future for Education Technology," Syllabus, December 2001; “Leadership and Change,” Chapter 3 in A Field Guide to Academic Leadership, Jossey-Bass, 2002; “HyLighting: a New Tool for Distance and Distributed Learning” (with Lebow), Proceedings of the 8th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (November 2002) (http://www.sloanc.org/conference/proceedings/2002/track6.asp); “A New Diversity in Organizational Paradigms: Change Creation and Change Management” (with Kaufman), International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Volume 3, 2003-2004, and in “Cultural Diversity of the Global World,” Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Diversity in Organizations (February 2003), Honolulu, Hawaii; “Medieval Scholarship Meets 21st Century Technology” (with Lebow), Part One: “The Collaborative Annotation Model,” (June 2003) and Part Two: “The Interactive Annotation Model” (July 2003), Online Classroom; “How to Get Your Organization Balanced Through Change Creation” (with Kaufman), Chapter 30 in The 2004 Team and Organizational Development Source Book, Silberman and Phillips (Eds), Inkwell Publishing and the American Society for Training and Development; and “HyLighter: An Effective Interactive Annotation Innovation for Distance Learning” (with Lebow), Proceedings of The 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Madison, WI, August 2004; and two chapters, “Change Creation for Online Learning and Technology” and “Mega Planning for Online Learning and Technology Change” (with Kaufman), Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Howard, Boettcher, Justice, Schenk, Berg and Rogers (Eds.), Idea Group, 2005; “HyLighter and Intractive Annotation: New Technology to Develop Higher-Order Thinking Skills” (with Lebow and Hartman), INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines (2004/2006); and “A New Perspective on Organizational Learning: Creating Learning Teams,” Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning (2006).
Dr. Lick’s most recent presentations are: Keynote Address, “Change Creation:
Transformation to Tomorrow,” National Syllabus Education and Technology Conference, Orlando, March 9, 2000; half-day workshops, “Leading Change in Higher Education,” National Conferences, American Association of Higher Education, Anaheim, California, March 29, 2000, and Washington, D.C, March 24, 2001, and “Whole-Faculty Study Groups” (with Murphy), Annual Conference, National Staff Development Council, Atlanta, Georgia, December 4, 2000; “Change and the Learning Paradigm,” Council on Instructional Affairs, Florida Association of Community Colleges, Fort Myers, Florida, June 16, 2000; “Change Creation and Change Management: Partners in Organizational Success” (with Kaufman), Culture and Change Conference, International Society for Performance Improvement, Washington, DC, November 6, 2000; national two-hour PBS TV Show “Technology-Driven Planning: Principles to Practice in Higher Education” (with Boettcher, Chaffee, Hartman, and McCredie), produced by the Society of College and University Planning, Newark, Delaware, March 15, 2001; “Visioning the Future” Workshop, Department of Athletics, University of Notre Dame, April 11-12, 2001; “Change Creation and Change Management: Twin Keys for the Successful Integration of Technology and Education” (with Kaufman), International Conference on Technology and Education, Tallahassee, FL, May 5, 2001; "Leading Change in School Technology," South Dakota's Governor's Distance Learning Showcase, October 2, 2001; “HyLighting: A New Approach to Distributed Learning” (with Lebow), International Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Atlanta, November 8, 2001; one-day workshops, Syllabus Education and Technology Conferences, “Leading Technology Change in Education”: Syllabus Fall2001 Conference, Boston, December 1, 2001, the Ninth Annual National Conference, Santa Clara, CA, July 28, 2002, and the Fourth Annual Boston Area Conference, November 3, 2002; half-day workshops, “A Key to Your Future: Effectively Dealing with Change,” The Florida Society of Certified Public Managers, Daytona Beach, FL, January 25, 2002, “Leading Change: From the Teaching to the Learning Paradigm,” National 2002 Conference, American Association of Higher Education, Chicago, IL, March 16, 2002, and “Change: A Key to Your Future,” the Florida Records Management Association, Daytona Beach, FL, May 5, 2002; Keynote Address “Leadership for Community Change,” Great Plains Symposium: Local and State Policy for Addressing Rural Communities and Population Loss, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, April 11, 2002; Keynote Address, “Effectively Dealing with Change,” the Society of Governmental Meeting Professionals, Florida Education Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, August 9, 2002; “Leading Change: Facilitating Technology in Schools,” Making Technology Work In Our Schools: A Forum for Educational Leaders and Decision Makers, The City University of New York, New York City, October 5, 2002; “Leading Change in the 21st Century,” 2002 Florida Leadership and Management Conference, Tallahassee, October 28, 2002, “HyLighting: A New Tool for Distance and Distributed Learning” (with Lebow), 8th Sloan – C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, November 9, 2002; “HyLighting: Computer-Supported Instruction in Active Reading,” (with Lebow and Peck), 23rd Annual Florida Educational Technology Conference, Orlando, February 5, 2003; “A New Diversity in Organizational Paradigms: Change Creation and Change Management” (with Kaufman), The Third International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, February 13-16, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii; “Creating Learning Organizations: Key Success Factors in the Whole-Faculty Study Group Process” and “The Critical Use of Synergy in Whole-Faculty Study Groups,” National Conference on Whole-Faculty Study Groups, Augusta, GA, February 19-22, 2003; “Leading Change in Instructional Administration,” National Conference for Instructional Administrators, Dallas, April 4, 2003; one-day workshop (with Murphy), “Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Communities of Learning and Achievement,” Georgia’s Leadership Institute for School Improvement, Atlanta, April 30, 2003; Keynote Address, “Developing Learning Teams,” and two one-day workshops, “Power of Sponsorship” and “Importance of Culture,” Smaller Learning Communities Conference, “Personalization and Progress,” Pinellas County Coalition of Smaller Learning Communities Schools, Pinellas Park, Florida, July 28-29, 2003; “Change Creation and Change Management: Partners in Organizational Success” (with Kaufman), The Third International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Penang, Malaysia, August 11-14, 2003; two half-day workshops, “Leading Change in Technology,” Adrian College and Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan, August 20, 2003; a two-day workshop, “Foundations of Change and Strategic Planning,” National Council for Agricultural Education, Alexandria, Virginia, October 3-4, 2003; “Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile: Leading and Adapting to Change,” for the “150th Anniversary Celebration of Faculty Excellence: Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future,” Institute for Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, November 13, 2003; half-day workshop, “Shifting from the Teaching to the Learning Paradigm,” and concurrent session, “Leadership and Change,” the 2003 Annual Meeting, Commission of Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Nashville, December 7-8, 2003; Opening Address, “Leading and Adapting to Change,” Spring 2004 Back To Campus, North Florida Community College, Madison, FL, January 5, 2004; “Medieval Scholarship Meets the Web: Shared Annotation for Learning” (with Lebow), Florida Educational Technology Conference, Orlando, January 23, 2004; Keynote Address, “The Power of Whole-Faculty Study Groups to Change Schools and Enhance Learning,” and concurrent session, “Whole-Faculty Study Groups as Synergistic Groups,” 2nd Annual National Whole-Faculty Study Group Conference, Augusta, GA, February 5-6, 2004; “Interactive Annotation Technology for Teaching and Learning” (with Lebow and Hartman), Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Atlanta, March 3, 2004; “HyLighter: An Effective Interactive Annotation Innovation for Distance Learning” (with Lebow), The 20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Madison WI, August 5, 2004; “Shine a New Light on Teaching and Learning” (with Lebow), 25th Annual Florida Educational Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida, January 28, 2005; presenter and moderator, “The Whole-Faculty Study Group Fieldbook” session, and two concurrent sessions, “Why The Whole-Faculty Study Group System Is So Powerful And Effective” and “Using Whole-Faculty Study Groups to Create Synergy And Learning Teams,” 3rd Annual National Whole-Faculty Study Group Conference, August, GA, February 6-7, 2005; concurrent and poster sessions (with Lebow), “The HyLighter Interactive Annotation System: New Technology to Improve Active Reading and Writing Skills,” Florida Reading Research Conference, Tallahassee, FL. April 2, 2005; Facilitator, “The National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Healthcare,” Integrated Health Care Policy Consortium, Washington, D.C., May31-June 3, 2005; “Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities,” Middle School Principal Leadership Training Project, Developing Educational Leaders for Tomorrow’s Learners, Florida Association of School Administrators, Naples, FL, July 6, 2005; one-day workshop (for Deans and Department Chairs), “Transformational Leadership,” LEAD … ACADEME PROGRAM SERIES, Louisiana State University, November 30, 2005; “Creating Learning Teams: The Revolution Begins with Learning Teams and Learning Communities,” 37th Annual Conference, National Staff Development Council, Philadelphia, PA, December 7, 2005; “Co-Mentoring Teams and Action Research: Creating Learning Teams for Cultural Change and Student Performance Enhancement,” Eighth National Symposium on Teacher Induction, San Jose, CA, February 6, 2006; concurrent session, “Why the WFSG System is So Powerful and Effective,” and co-facilitated two School/District Administrators Dialogue sessions (with Murphy), Fourth Annual National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Conference, Augusta, GA, February 8-9, 2006; “Shifting from the Teaching to the Learning Paradigm: Keys to Make the Shift Take Place in the Classroom.” Interdisciplinary Teaching Society, Tallahassee, FL, February, 24, 2006; “Shared Annotation Technology for Supporting Learning and Learning Communities” (with Lebow), 17th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, April 12, 2006, and a half-day workshop, “Leadership and Change: Principles and Practices,” Corrections Supervisory Leadership Certificate Program, Florida Department of Corrections, Tallahassee, FL, April 20, 2006
Major professor for recent doctoral graduates: Sheri Rowland, “Factors That Contribute to the Persistence and Academic Achievement of Community College Students,” Spring 2003; Albert J. Isaacs, “An Investigation of Attributes of School Principals in Relation to Resilience and Leadership Practices,” and Jing Wang, “A Study of the Adjustment of International Graduate Students at American Universities,” Summer 2003; Patrick R. Malone, “Institutional Effectiveness Practices in Colleges and Universities in the Southeastern United States,” Fall 2003; Sandra W. Tarrant, “Conditions That Facilitate the Implementation of Distance Learning Components into Traditional Master’s Degree Curricula in Nursing,” Spring 2004; and Doreen A. Duncan, “School Culture: Exploring Its Relationship with Mental Models and Leadership Behaviors in Schools,” Fall 2004.
Illustrations of recent professional consulting services: Publishers – New Publications (e.g., Jossey-Bass and Corwin Press); Editorial Boards – Innovate (Journal of Online Education) and International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Department of Athletics, University of Notre Dame – Vision and Mission; National Council for Agricultural Education, Washington, D.C. – Strategic Planning; Pinellas County Schools, Pinellas Park, FL – Smaller Learning Communities Program; National Whole-Faculty Study Group Center, Augusta, GA – Planning, Development and Operation; Great Plains Consortium – Future Development; Office of the Governor, South Dakota – Distance Learning, Technology and Economic Development; Steele-Collins Charter Middle School, Tallahassee, FL – Operation and Academic Improvement; Leon County Schools, Tallahassee, FL – Project Development and Funding; Gateway Corporation – Higher Education Advisory Council; and the Integrated Health Care Policy Consortium – Consulting for and facilitating of the National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Healthcare.
Major research contracts: Co-Principal Investigator (with Gaede and Kaufman) on two Navy research contracts (totaling $1,500,000) involving the assessment of Naval leadership training and the development of a new Distributed Learning Model and a new Learning System for the Navy.
Dr. Lick received bachelor and master’s degrees from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside. Further, Dr. Lick holds three levels of formal training and certification for Leading and Managing Organizational Change: Change Knowledge, Instructor/Trainer, and Consultation Skills, from the international change research and development organization, Conner Partners (formerly ODR, Inc.), Atlanta, Georgia.
Dale W. Lick
University Professor
Learning Systems Institute and
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
C-4600 University Center
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2540
850-553-4080, 850-553-4081 (Fax)
April 2006