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008 060306s2006 mau b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2006007472
020 _a193337103X
020 _a9781933371030
035 _a(OCoLC)64594297
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100 1 _aLees, N. Doug.
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245 1 0 _aChairing academic departments
_btraditional and emerging expectations
_cN. Douglas Lees.
260 _aBolton, Mass.
_bAnker Pub. Co.
_cc2006.
300 _axiii, 338 p.
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aDepartmental chairmen Universities
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aUniversities and colleges
_zUnited States
_xAdministration.
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007472.html
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