...a department chair. Whether becoming a first-time chair or a slightly seasoned department leader, you are armed with only peripheral leadership experience to address a variety of constituents and audiences,...
...conducting an external search for department chair well before the start of Professor Kim’s ill-fated chairship. The position of the department chair is one of the most difficult in the...
...last academic year as chair. This gives the incoming chair an entire academic year to work with the outgoing chair to better understand the position. Provide faculty with leadership opportunities....
...call it applied humanities. Applied humanities courses tailor humanities content to the specific concerns of and issues within a particular professional program. Moreover, applied humanities courses have a strong component...
...simple things, which I discuss below. 1. The position or division chair is actually many positions masquerading as one The position of chair is multidimensional. A chair is a leader,...
Every academic leader invests time in strategic planning groups, presidential cabinets, councils of department chairs, dean’s council meetings, and similar regularly scheduled meetings. Academic leaders occasionally leave the campus for...
...and responsibilities of the department chair. Chairs are serving less willingly than ever before. Potential chairs do not want to serve as chair. Chairs are not adequately educated or trained...
Although not often in mind at the outset of life as an academic department chair, the time will come for all academic department chairs to exit their administrative roles. What...
...as important college or school leaders. On occasion chairs will require the dean’s expert advice on an emergency basis. It may be a natural disaster that damages a department field...
...The Department Chair. 17(1), 28. Fant, G. C. (Summer 2004) The parallel chair move. The Department Chair. 15(1), 18-19. Kelly, R. (December 2008). A purposeful approach to chair transition. Academic...