assignment:
Respond to post A and Post b with suggestions for improving their questions. As you review comments about your questions and review the questions posed by colleagues, begin to refine your set of questions

Post A:
My interview will be with the Vice Rector of the Karaganda State Unviersity. Since he does not speak English, I make the questions easy for me to ask, and for him to answer so that we understand each other. I have also an interpretor on stand-by, in case I feel I cannot conduct this interview without interpretation in the final week.

Below is the document I have prepared for my interpretor:

Dear Xxxx

My interview will be mostly on their work as leaders of higher education in the 21st century, and the university’s general role in the community. The idea is simply to understand the role of a leader of an institution of higher education like KSU, and maybe to be able to later differentiate the Kazkah university with an American one.

I will be asking questions along these lines:

1 What is your role as leader in this institution?

2 What are your fields/areas of responsibility?

3 Please outline a typical day.

4 What is/are the learning models the university adopts, and why?

5 Does the university promote diversity (of students and faculty?)

6 How does the university relate with the community?

7 What sources of funding do you have?

8 Does the university (and others in Kazakhstan) have to go through accreditation? If yes, what kind? Or with which body? or based on what standards?

9 What are your views/on academic integrity? How does that play in your university and in Kazakhstan?

10 Does the Bologne Process have any bearing on your institution?

11 What is the latest innovation you have implemented in KSU?

12 Finally, could you tell what leadership style you use?

All information will be held in great confidentiality, and anonymity will be guarded.

Total interview time will be 30 minutes maximum (about 2 minutes per question).

Thank you so very much for your help.

Phillipa

Post B,
Interview : President Larry Calhoun

President of Southeastern Technical College (STC).
1. How long have you been in a leadership position?

2. Have you been in different leadership roles or positions? How would you say that each role has been similar or different?

3. What are your feelings toward strategic planning?

4. Do you know much about scenario planning? If so, do you think that this is a better option to strategic planning?

5. How do you feel about mission statements in general? Is it meaningly rhetoric or do they target the higher education institutions purpose as exact as possible?

6. How is STC’s mission influenced by sociopolitical trends?

7. What are the major influences on STC’s mission? Do you think this mission will eventually change?

8. How do your strive to build a culture of innovation?

9. Who would you say are the most important stakeholders at STC?

10. How are stakeholders included in the mission?

11. Are we targeting the issue of diversity? If so, how are we doing this?

12. Would you say that STC is an institution of continual change? How so? Is research the basis for it?

13. Is STC making an effort to service students?