02069nam a2200325Ia 4500 281408 OCoLC 20160527200157.0 060306s2006 mau b 001 0 eng 2006007472 193337103X 9781933371030 (OCoLC)64594297 DLC DLC YDXCP BAKER IG# OCLCQ BTCTA LMR pcc n-us--- PUXA LB2341 .L285 2006 378.1/110973 22 378.111 L4871c Lees, N. Doug. Local 124413 Chairing academic departments traditional and emerging expectations N. Douglas Lees. Bolton, Mass. Anker Pub. Co. c2006. xiii, 338 p. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index. The position of academic department chair -- The department chair: then, now, and soon to be -- Characteristics of effective chairs -- Remaining professionally viable while chair -- The chair as keeper of information -- Quality assurance -- Staying legal -- Staying sane -- Working with internal constituents -- Communication -- Working with faculty -- Working with the dean and other administrators -- Interacting with students -- Working with faculty -- Staffing the academic department -- Recruiting and retaining faculty -- Faculty culture -- Guiding faculty careers -- Faculty evaluation -- The challenge of change -- Fiscal constraints in higher education -- Strategic planning -- The chair as campus entrepreneur -- The chair as external entrepreneur -- Preparing to lead change -- Understanding and overcoming resistance to change -- Next steps -- Chair selection and development -- Exiting the chair position -- The benefits to serving as chair. Departmental chairmen Universities United States. Local 85644 Universities and colleges United States Administration. Local 183192 Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007472.html 202659 202659 0 0 ddc 0 378_111000000000000_L4871C 0 evl 294681 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Amazon 42.49 407326 0 378.111 L4871c 80000002309733 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:281408 6