New Department Chairs: Information Resources: Starting Points

In Chairing Academic Departments, the author offers experience-based suggestions for new, existing, and potential chairs as they face a higher education enterprise that is undergoing significant change.

The book that every dean and department chair needs to survive--and thrive--in the twenty-first-century university.

This is the first book to address the role of the department chair in diversity and addresses an unmet need by providing a research-based, systematic approach to diversity leadership in the academic department based upon survey findings and in-person interviews.

A practical, accessible handbook for new and prospective chairs, providing both principles and practices for effective departmental leadership.

How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.

This book analyzes the behavior of chairs and deans through the political, structural, human resources, and symbolic frames.

A Toolkit for Department Chairs is designed to give academic administrators the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively.