Chairing an academic department comes with a multitude of
responsibilities in a wide variety of areas. As a new department
chair, you immediately confront many of the basics of academic
leadership: managing budgets, supporting faculty, resolving
conflict, and facilitating change, to name a few of the topics
covered in The Essentials for New Department Chairs,
the companion to this booklet. This collection is designed to help
you navigate the further intricacies of your role.
Bringing together in one place for the first time sound advice
and proven strategies from experts in the field, these articles
from The Department Chair provide practical tips on
such topics as post-tenure review, work-life balance for faculty,
fundraising, departmental planning, and preparing your
administrative résumé. Every selection contains easily
accessible strategies and advice that you can put to use
immediately. The range of articles covers the important functions
of academic departments, and the authors impart the skills and
thinking you need to enhance your leadership capabilities. For
brand-new department chairs this booklet will provide you with an
overview of the complexities of the chair role. For those chairs
with a year or two more experience this booklet will provide
direction and guidance as you delve more deeply into your
responsibilities.
Designed to provide a wealth of strategies in five crucial
areas?faculty recruitment and evaluation, faculty mentoring and
development, enhancing teaching and building community,
departmental initiatives, and chair development and next steps?the
expert advice and field-tested techniques presented here offer
essential insights into this important chair work. This collection
will equip you with lessons to draw from and best practices for
leading into the future.
Tabla de materias
Introduction 1
Faculty Recruitment and Evaluation
New Challenges in Faculty Recruiting 2
by N. Douglas Lees and Gautam Vemuri
Diversity at the Department Level 7
by Lynn M. Maurer, Anthony Q. Cheeseboro, and Patrick
Murphy
The Faculty Handbook: A Guide or a Labyrinth? 12
by Jon K. Dalager
The Chair as Evaluation ‘Charlatan’ 17
by Christine M. Licata and N. Douglas Lees
Faculty Mentoring and Development
A Collaborative for Mentoring New Faculty 23
by Suzanne W. Soled, Melissa M. Jones, Daniel W. Doerger,
Jaesook L. Gilbert, and Sara K. Eisenhardt
Mentoring Tenured Faculty: Rationales and Programs 28
by Jacquelyn S. Litt, Sheryl A. Tucker, and Jill M.
Hermsen
Energizing the Senior Professor 34
by Barbara Oney Garvey
Mentoring and Faculty Development 41
by Carol A. Mullen
Enhancing Teaching and Building Community
Building a Shared Value of Teaching in a Department: What Chairs
Can Do 47
by Mary C. Wright
Motivating Faculty to Engage in Service-Learning 51
by Debra Burke
Joyful Chairing: Finding Joy in Committee Work 57
by Kina S. Mallard and Mark L. Sargent
Department Chairs and Work-Life Flexibility for Faculty 61
by Kate Quinn
Engaging Faculty: Departmental Shared Governance
That Works 66 by Mary L. Fisher
Departmental Initiatives
Hitting the Ground Running: Making Strategic Changes 72
by John Paxton
The Department Advisory Board as an Academic Partner 77
by Dan W. French
Reframing Departmental Planning 83
by Mark Putnam
Conducting an Annual Fund Campaign 87
by Jeffrey L. Buller
Chair Development and Next Steps
Administrative Reflection: Focal Points and Considerations for
Department Chairs 93
by David A. Birch
Taking Your Administrative Résumé to the Next Level of
Excellence 98
by Jeffrey L. Buller
Preparing for Your Departure as Chair 103
by N. Douglas Lees
Sobre el autor
Carolyn Allard is the editor of Special Issues in Chairing Academic Departments, published by Wiley.
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