| Contents |
Leadership -- Advice for new chairpersons -- Seven habits of successful chairpersons -- Providing leadership -- Duties and responsibilities of chairpersons -- Timesaving tips for effective chairpersons -- Communicating -- Department -- Developing a departmental vision -- Improving your department -- Developing outcome assessment programs -- Managing change -- Building and maintaining morale -- Managing conflict -- Working with constituents -- Working with your dean -- Dealing with curriculum matters -- Conducting effective meetings -- Budget and financial management -- Legal issues -- Avoiding legal problems -- Understanding sexual harassment and the Americans with Disabilities Act -- Faculty -- Recruiting and hiring faculty -- Retaining, mentoring, and terminating faculty -- Strategies for faculty development -- Evaluating faculty performance -- Handling promotion and tenure issues -- Dealing with chronic low achievers -- Dealing with difficult faculty -- Students -- Recruiting and retaining students -- Dealing with emotional and disrespectful student behavior -- Looking ahead -- Moving up the administrative ladder -- Where do you go from here? -- Appendixes. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Leaming, Deryl R. Academic leadership. 2nd ed. Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., ©2007 |
| Genre/form | Handbooks and manuals. |
| Genre/form | Handbooks and manuals. |
| LCCN | 2006025666 |
| ISBN | 9781933371177 |
| ISBN | 193337117X |
