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This well-written, practical guide to managing an academic department covers the many responsibilities of a department chair, including some of the newest and trickiest. Based on over 20 years of experience as a department chair, the author offers a comprehensive and uniformly practical resource for effectively managing an academic department. It is filled with helpful summaries, checklists, tables, and sample forms. Invaluable for new chairpersons, and a handy resource for experienced chairpersons as well, all will find this a friendly mentor, always there for consultation, advice, and suggestions.

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• About the Author
• Foreword. Preface
• Part I Leadership
• 1 Advice for New Chairpersons
• 2 Seven Habits of Successful Chairpersons
• 3 Providing Leadership
• 4 Duties and Responsibilities of Chairpersons
• 5 Timesaving Tips for Effective Chairpersons
• 6 Communicating
• Part II Department
• 7 Developing a Departmental Vision
• 8 Improving Your Department
• 9 Developing Outcome Assessment Programs
• 10 Managing Change
• 11 Building and Maintaining Morale
• 12 Managing Conflict
• 13 Working With Constituents
• 14 Working With Your Dean
• 15 Dealing With Curriculum Matters
• 16 Conducting Effective Meetings
• 17 Budget and Financial Management
• Part III Legal Issues
• 18 Avoiding Legal Problems
• 19 Understanding Sexual Harassment and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Part IV Faculty
• 20 Recruiting and Hiring Faculty
• 21 Retaining, Mentoring, and Terminating Faculty
• 22 Strategies for Faculty Development
• 23 Evaluating Faculty Performance
• 24 Handling Promotion and Tenure Issues
• 25 Dealing With Chronic Low Achievers
• 26 Dealing With Difficult Faculty
• Part V Students
• 27 Recruiting and Retaining Students
• 28 Dealing With Emotional and Disrespectful Student Behavior
• Part VI Looking Ahead
• 29 Moving Up the Administrative Ladder
• 30 Where Do You Go From Here?
• Appendixes
• Index