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Chair Leading And Cheerleading In A Medical School: A Guide To Administrative Longevity, Stanley Glick
Chair Leading And Cheerleading In A Medical School: A Guide To Administrative Longevity, Stanley Glick
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Introduction. Leading an academic department of a medical college is not for everyone. Having done it for 25 years, having enjoyed it for 25 years, and having, I believe, been successful in doing it for 25 years, I have decided to share my thoughts with others and codify, so to speak, my perspective within the confines of this essay. The stimulus for doing this was my recent realization that I have been leading my department (now called a “center”) longer than any other Chair or academic leader (our basic science Chairs are now called “directors”) in my institution. Of the …
Leadership For Higher Education – Role Of A Dean, A. Singh, Bharathi Purohit
Leadership For Higher Education – Role Of A Dean, A. Singh, Bharathi Purohit
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The role of the academic dean is often a difficult one to describe. As a leader in higher education the dean has various responsibilities and many challenges to face that tend to evolve with the ever-changing face of higher education. The role of the academic dean is one that is multifaceted, challenging and often ambiguous. (Walker, 2000) The dean is a person the students could go to in times of trouble and in times of prosper, and to learn from the dean about life. It is essential that deans have the required knowledge base, skills and abilities to perform effectively …
Meeting The Challenge Of A Janus Job, Patricia Phelps
Meeting The Challenge Of A Janus Job, Patricia Phelps
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
No one becomes an academic department chair in higher education without first having been a faculty member. After eighteen years as a faculty member at the same university, I was named interim department chair in 2005. With this administrative appointment came the assumption of what I perceived as a Janus job. In Roman mythology, Janus was the god associated with doorways and gates. He was frequently portrayed with two faces–one looking forward and one looking backward. Rather than being viewed as two-faced, Janus is more accurately described as vigilant. This image seems to fit aptly the role of academic department …
Department Chairs’ Perception Of Faculty Participation In Accreditation Activities: A Follow-Up Survey, Cathryn Peterson
Department Chairs’ Perception Of Faculty Participation In Accreditation Activities: A Follow-Up Survey, Cathryn Peterson
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The purpose of this study was to explore physical therapy department chairs’ perceptions of the extent to which their faculty members participated in the activities leading to accreditation, and whether or not this participation was associated with accreditation outcome. This study was conducted and completed in 2004 as a follow-up to a previous study that explored the relationships among accreditation outcome and management style employed by the chair person, faculty participation in accreditation activities, faculty commitment to implementing the plans delineated in the accreditation documentation, and faculty support of the accreditation process.
Leadership Excellence: Constructing The Role Of Department, Pamela Benoit
Leadership Excellence: Constructing The Role Of Department, Pamela Benoit
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The role of department chair in today’s colleges and universities is much different and more multifaceted than it was just a decade ago. Academic department chairs must conduct performance reviews, oversee budgets, carry out strategic planning, and negotiate their department’s identity within highly complex institutions (Hecht, Higgerson, Gmelch, & Tucker, 1999). Evidence gathered from ACE workshops indicated that as many as two-thirds of the chairs had no prior administrative experience and yet they face a demanding role requiring a wide range of talents (Hecht, Higgerson, Gmelch, & Tucker, 1999).
Engaged, But Not Heroic, Academic Leadership, John B. Bennett
Engaged, But Not Heroic, Academic Leadership, John B. Bennett
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Over the years, I have explored leadership challenges faced by department chairpersons and school deans. In this essay I reflect on some findings, noting that they also apply to other educational leaders such as faculty senate members and student affairs officers. Most mid-level leaders struggle with the tradition of defining leadership in terms of individualistic values and mythologies of seeing the leader in terms of the individualistic, heroic cowboy of the Western film and novel. Then I examine the position of institutional president. Here too some leaders aim to be heroic figures, like the fabled cowboy. Almost inevitably, their behaviors …
The Challenges Of A New Department Chair: Success Despite Reality, Jeanneine P. Jones
The Challenges Of A New Department Chair: Success Despite Reality, Jeanneine P. Jones
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A narrative demonstrating the need for administrative training for department chairs.
Academic Leadership In Ivy Tech State College: Academic Chairs’ Tasks And Job Challenges, Michael Petty
Academic Leadership In Ivy Tech State College: Academic Chairs’ Tasks And Job Challenges, Michael Petty
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This study was conducted to establish baseline information about Ivy Tech State College academic chairs’ personal/background characteristics and to determine those chairs’ rating of the importance of their tasks and their perceptions of the job challenges they will face in the future. In addition, the study compared Ivy Tech chairs’ personal/ background characteristics and perceptions of their tasks and job challenges with the findings of the 1992 International Community College Chair Survey. Although there were some statistically different ratings, in essence both samples of chairs highly rate the importance of their myriad tasks and they are in general agreement as …
Review: The Department Chair’S Role In Developing New Faculty Into Teachers And Scholars By Estela Mara Bensimon, Kelly Ward, And Karla Sanders, Joann Moody
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A book review of The Department Chair’s Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars by Estela Mara Bensimon, Kelly Ward, and Karla Sanders
Literature Review: The Relationship Between Department Chairs And Academic Program Review, Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo
Literature Review: The Relationship Between Department Chairs And Academic Program Review, Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Academic program review is increasingly mandated in higher education in the current environment of academic accountability. At the same time, the role of the department chair is growing in responsibility and complexity. This review of the literature attempts to explore the intersection between the role of the department chair and the successful implementation of academic program review recommendations or results at the department level.