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Bitzer, Lloyd F. – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
Sums up the roles and virtues of the ideal dean under the term "educational statesmanship." (PD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Deans, Department Heads, Educational Administration
Knight, Peter T.; Trowler, Paul R. – 2001
This book examines the ways that mainstream leadership thinking does and does not apply to departments and teams in higher education institutions. It offers a way of looking at the practice of leading rather than presenting a selection of tools or tips, and it contains extensive practical advice. The chapters are: (1) "Changing"; (2) "Leadership…
Descriptors: Administrators, Department Heads, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMoore, Michael R. – ACA Bulletin, 1986
Discusses ways the department chairperson can assist in the continued development of tenured faculty. (PD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Taylor, Anita – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
Reviews tasks and duties of department chairs, stressing the importance of establishing priorities and delegating appropriately. Includes an Appropriate Chair Role analysis for the Communication Department, George Mason University. (PD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, Educational Administration, Higher Education
Dedmon, Donald N. – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
Considers the department chair crucial to the welfare of the university, responsible for housekeeping functions (scheduling, planning, etc.), recruiting faculty and students, and assuming advisory/leadership roles in the campus community. (PD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Presidents, Department Heads, Educational Administration
Jamison, David – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1983
Considers what the study of law teaches and how this training is useful to academic administrators. (PD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication (Thought Transfer), Department Heads, Higher Education
Malek, James S. – ADE Bulletin, 1998
Discusses the obligations of spending donor money at the university level: stewardship, donors' expectations, how to get maximum benefit from the money, and best projects to support. (PA)
Descriptors: Department Heads, Donors, English Departments, Higher Education
Peer reviewedFallon, Daniel – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1988
Reflects on the relations between deans and theater heads. Suggests skills and values that a dean might reasonably expect in a chair of theater. (MS)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Deans, Department Heads
Jeffrey, Robert C. – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
In addition to being a good manager with a vision of the future, the department chair must be able to solve departmental problems without the dean's help; provide concise, accurate data to support all requests and recommendations; and create an intellectual atmosphere in which teaching and scholarship can thrive. (PD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Deans, Department Heads, Educational Administration
Hickson, Mark – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
Focuses on the annual faculty review by the department head. Suggests how this procedure can become more meaningful and includes a Performance Standards form. (PD)
Descriptors: Department Heads, Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education
Download full textChambliss, Catherine – 2003
Change itself often threatens efficiency. This is ironic, given that organizational changes are frequently made because of a need for increased efficiency. Academic departments within a wide variety of institutions are wrestling with this irony on a daily basis. Expanding systems and staffing, and adoption of new computer systems, all intended to…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Departments, Educational Change, Efficiency
Chambliss, Catherine – 2003
Promoting academic departmental productivity requires vision, passion, and sensitivity while coping with the rapid pace of change. This paper presents 10 proven strategies for managing some common challenges faced by academic department chairs: (1) building a sense of family purpose; (2) establishing mechanisms to assure accountability; (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Department Heads, Departments
Peer reviewedRundall, Richard A. – Clearing House, 1981
The author provides the regular teacher, the department head, and the principal with tips for helping the substitute teacher. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Department Heads, Guidelines, Secondary Education
Dempsey, Richard A.; Gregorc, Anthony F. – Executive Educator, 1988
Replacing the old-fashioned job description of department heads with the job-results description offers a measurement of actual performance that allows principals to assess the progress of a department while they evaluate the performance of its head. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Department Heads, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Performance
Peer reviewedKoehler, Michael – Clearing House, 1994
Offers 10 suggestions for department chairs in dealing with faculty. (SR)
Descriptors: Department Heads, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Secondary Education
