Special Issues in Chairing Academic Departments E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Serie: The Department Chair
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 165

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Contents

Introduction

Section One: Faculty Recruitment and Evaluation

New Challenges in Faculty Recruiting

Managing the Transition

Creating a Staffing Plan

The Chair as Recruiter

Summary

Diversity at the Department Level

What Is the Inclusive Excellence Model?

What Steps Can Chairs Take?

Diversity in Recruiting and Retaining Minority Faculty

Diversity in the Curriculum

Diversity in Assessment and Accreditation

Conclusion

The Faculty Handbook: A Guide or a Labyrinth?

The Department Chair and the Faculty Handbook

Faculty Handbook Survivor: Two Episodes from a Reality Show

Faculty Handbook as an Enforceable Contract

Recommendations for Chairs

The Chair as Evaluation “Charlatan”

Section Two: Faculty Mentoring and Development

A Collaborative for Mentoring New Faculty

The Evolution of a Community

Benefits for Administrators

The Evolution Continues

Conclusion

Mentoring Tenured Faculty: Rationales and Programs

Why Mentor Tenured Faculty?

Developing a Mentoring Program

Mentoring Program Ideas

Conclusion

Energizing the Senior Professor

The Hanover College Model

The Repertory Grid Method

Recommendations for Chairs

Conclusion

Mentoring and Faculty Development

A Vignette of Faculty Mentoring

Types of Mentoring Relationships

Mentoring Steps and Approaches

Conclusion

Section Three: Enhancing Teaching and Building Community

Building a Shared Value of Teaching in a Department: What Chairs Can Do

Conclusion

Motivating Faculty to Engage in Service-Learning

Describing the Benefits to Faculty

Assisting with the Process

Concluding Thoughts

Joyful Chairing: Finding Joy in Committee Work

Department Chairs and Work-Life Flexibility for Faculty

Work-Life Challenges Across the Career Course

Flexible Policy Options and Resources

How Chairs Can Support Their Faculty

Engaging Faculty: Departmental Shared Governance That Works

Principles, Values, and Beliefs

Faculty and Administrator Roles and Responsibilities

Departmental Committee and Governance Structure

Practical Recommendations for Implementation

Evaluation of the Model

Section Four: Departmental Initiatives

Hitting the Ground Running: Making Strategic Changes

Curriculum

Research

Space and Facilities

Development

Public Relations

Conclusion

The Department Advisory Board as an Academic Partner

Board Meetings

Successfully Engaging Advisory Board Members

Fundraising

Conclusion

Reframing Departmental Planning

Framing the Context

Avoiding the Pitfalls

Conducting an Annual Fund Campaign

The Chair’s Challenge

The Power of Ten

The Golden Ticket

Conclusion

Section Five: Chair Development and Next Steps

Administrative Reflection: Focal Points and Considerations for Department Chairs

Focal Points for Reflection

Engaging in Reflection

Summary

Taking Your Administrative Résumé to the Next Level of Excellence

The Action Résumé

The Administrative Vita

Suggestions for the Action Résumé and the Administrative Vita

Preparing for Your Departure as Chair

Preparing Your Successor

Preparing Yourself for the Next Step

Summary

Copyright © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Published by Jossey-Bass

A Wiley Imprint

989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 www.josseybass.com

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax [phone], or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, 201-748-8789, fax [phone], www.wiley.com/go/permissions.

Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores. To contact Jossey-Bass directly call our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-956-7739, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3986, or fax [phone].

Jossey-Bass also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request

Introduction

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.

SECTION ONE

Faculty Recruitment and Evaluation

New Challenges in Faculty Recruiting

by N. Douglas Lees and Gautam Vemuri

Several recent studies have tracked the demographics of faculty members currently serving in our colleges and universities and have found that more than half are over age fifty and nearly 20% are over age sixty. Although the data come from public comprehensive institutions there is no reason to believe that they are not representative of academe as a whole. While tenure and the elimination of a mandatory retirement age for faculty have induced some to stay in their positions longer, most of these individuals will stay on for only a few more years. Though it is difficult to predict the impact of slow salary growth, the recent investment account losses, and the rising cost of health insurance on the decision to retire, it remains that there will be a need to replace a significant proportion of our faculties within the next decade or so.