…quality programming, networking opportunities, and thought leadership you’ve seen at our Teaching Professor conferences, but this one will be tailored to deans, department chairs, faculty developers, and other academic
…someone with financial and operational acumen, and an academic and intellectual leader. It is significant that respondents placed the traditional academic skills last on this list. Some of these
This article originally appeared in the April 2001 issue of Academic Leader and has been reprinted from The New Dean’s Survival Guide: Advice from an Academic Leader (Magna Publications, 2019). The situation: You
…a new academic or research program generally have good support from the departments. The assumption moving forward will be that the department embarks on the EPR process with a
…Chairing Academic Departments.” The Department Chair 20(2): 1–3. N. Douglas Lees, PhD, is associate dean for planning and finance, professor, and former chair of biology at Indiana University–Purdue University
…academic policies; determine academic standing; assess academic appeals and petitions; coordinate the Academic Honor Board; and oversee faculty advising.” While academic advising is one of the associate provost’s responsibilities,
…and professional development, planning ahead for professional development commitments, and regularly discussing priorities with a supervisor. Brooks wasn’t writing to an audience of academic leaders or department chairs, but
Being a department chair did not come easily to me. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience of working with my department chair, because it is the
…in practicing translucent academic leadership is then to develop procedures that both protect truly confidential information and provide assurances that nothing improper has occurred. In environments where department chairs
For a long time, scholarly debate has differed on whether leaders can be developed or leadership traits are inherent. Are leaders born to lead? Or do leaders develop into
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