Department chairs can play a significant role in promoting collaboration and cooperation for the benefit of individual faculty members and the unit. In an interview with Academic Leader, Patrick Lawrence,...
...the initiative can be both an annoyance and a challenge to the academic leader. Several strategies are available to the leader. If the leader is aware of dissenters’ concerns and...
...years as a faculty member, department chair, division head, dean, vice president for academic affairs, provost, interim president, and, now, senior vice president. I still am able to teach three...
...be helpful to provosts, associate provosts, deans, department chairs, vice presidents of student affairs, and others concerned about the status and structure of options to support men of color and...
A Systematic, Reasoned, and Compassionate Approach Almost every academic leader will have to successfully work through an experience that leads to considering separation of some member from the Academic Affairs...
...View of Department Chairs: Lessons Learned, The Department Chair, 28(1), 1-3. N. Douglas Lees, PhD, is associate dean for planning & finance, professor, and former chair of biology, in the...
...(2019, February 15). The rise of incivility in higher education. Academic Leader. https://www.academic-leader.com/topics/institutional-culture/the-rise-of-incivility-in-higher-education DiGirolamo, J. A., & Tkach, J. T. (2019). An exploration of managers and leaders using coaching skills....
...as a long-term position. While serving as a department chair, as a center director, or in some other faculty leadership role can help develop the necessary skills to succeed as...
Those of us who have served our institutions as deans or provosts know that leadership requires many skills—some of which we bring to the job and some of which we...
...not new within higher education, but deploying all services and instruction from face-to-face to online in a matter of days comes with underlying challenges. Provosts, deans, associate deans, and department...