Special Issues in Chairing Academic Departments

Special Issues in Chairing Academic Departments......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
New Challenges in Faculty Recruiting......Page 8
Diversity at the Department Level......Page 13
The Faculty Handbook: A Guide or a Labyrinth?......Page 18
The Chair as Evaluation "Charlatan"......Page 23
A Collaborative for Mentoring New Faculty......Page 29
Mentoring Tenured Faculty: Rationales and Programs......Page 34
Energizing the Senior Professor......Page 40
Mentoring and Faculty Development......Page 47
Building a Shared Value of Teaching in a Department: What Chairs Can Do......Page 53
Motivating Faculty to Engage in Service-Learning......Page 57
Joyful Chairing: Finding Joy in Committee Work......Page 63
Department Chairs and Work-Life Flexibility for Faculty......Page 67
Engaging Faculty: Departmental Shared Governance That Works......Page 72
Hitting the Ground Running: Making Strategic Changes......Page 78
The Department Advisory Board as an Academic Partner......Page 83
Reframing Departmental Planning......Page 89
Conducting an Annual Fund Campaign......Page 93
Administrative Reflection: Focal Points and Considerations for Department Chairs......Page 99
Taking Your Administrative Résumé to the Next Level of Excellence......Page 104
Preparing for Your Departure as Chair......Page 109