This well-written and practical guide to managing an academic department covers all the many responsibilities of a department chair, including some of the newest and trickiest. Based on his 20 years of experience as a department chair, the author offers a comprehensive and uniformly practical resource for effectively managing an academic department. It is filled with helpful summaries, checklists, tables, and sample forms. Invaluable for new chairpersons, and a handy resource for experienced chairpersons as well, all will find this a friendly mentor, always there for consultation, advice, and suggestions.
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"Academic Leadership should prove a useful resource for most department chairpersons." (Education Review)
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"If you heed the advice and suggestions presented in this book, I predict that first you will gain satisfaction from a job well done, your faculty will be pleased and become even more productive, and your students will express appreciation for the quality of your programs."
—Alan T. Seagren, Professor of Educational Administration and Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Nebraska–Lincoln --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
—Alan T. Seagren, Professor of Educational Administration and Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Nebraska–Lincoln --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Expert advice on chairing a college department,
By Dr. George T. Arnold (Marshall University, Huntington,WV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department (Hardcover)
Dr. Leaming's book provides a comforting reminder that we need not > waste time and energy reinventing the wheel. New and veteran > administrators, particularly at the academic departmental level, can gain > invaluable guidance by taking advantage of Dean Leaming's 30-plus years of > experience. Whatever they are experiencing, he has already been through -- > numerous times. He knows their challenges and anxieties, and, > more importantly, the solutions to them. > > His book is written in plain, easy-to-understand language. It deals > with everyday duties from attracting and hiring the most qualified people > to dismissing those who don't work out, and from encouraging good teaching > and research to dealing with difficult faculty members. The book also > includes helpful summaries, checklists, tables and sample forms. > > Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department is a must-have resource book for the newly appointed department head who wantsto avoid the trial-and-error management method. Dr. Leaming has been a department head at five universites and a dean at two. And he has laid out a roadmap that will come in handy continually for even the experienced person who still has a distance to travel down the administrative highway. >
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By Dr. George T. Arnold (Marshall University, Huntington,WV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department (Hardcover)
Moving from classroom teacher to the role of departmental chairperson often can be fraught with many challenges such a role change presents. Dr. Deryl R. Leaming's text, Academic Leadership, A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department, is a welcome and valuable resource, particularly for the new administrator faced with more issues than ever in today's changing academics. Dr. Leaming knows what he's writing about. He has been there, done that, so to speak, with more than 30 years of experience at five respected universities. His book is indeed a practical guide, offering insight in such areas as faculty evaluation, budgets, time management, legal problems and recruiting students and faculty, to list just a few of the 26 chapters of relevant topics. A real plus is the easy to understand writing style. He's a communications specialist and it shows in his presentation. This is one text that you'll keep on your desktop, not the book shelve
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If you've suddenly found yourself in a leadership role, don't panic. Order this book. Do it right now. I've only had it a few weeks and it's already saved my career from an early demise. I'll even credit this book with lowering my diastolic blood pressure by five points. My dog-eared copy goes to and from work with me everyday. Leaming has not only anticipated every possible landmine on the Ho Chi Minh trail of academic leadership -- but he can clearly communicate and expertly tell you how to disarm them before they explode. He shows the reader how to anticipate and prepare for every challenge that will likely arise. A friend (angel?) sent me this book, gift wrapped, to congratulate me on my recent promotion. It'll be difficult to return that favor.
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successful chairpersons, tenure guidelines, college liaison, teaching score, morning memo, department gossip, untenured faculty members, faculty morale, department chairperson, search committee members, most faculty members, new faculty members, departmental leadership, low med Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Almost no chairperson that I know was provided training for the position before undertaking the job. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
successful chairpersons, tenure guidelines, college liaison, teaching score, morning memo, department gossip, untenured faculty members, faculty morale, department chairperson, search committee members, most faculty members, new faculty members, departmental leadership, low med Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The George Washington University, Generation Xers, San Francisco, United States, Marshall University, Academic Leader, College of Mass Communication, Disabilities Act, Middle Tennessee State University, Smith Hall, First Amendment, University of Mobile, Association of American Colleges, Creating Positive Relations, Indiana University Board of Trustees, Magna Publications, Supreme Court New!
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