TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lees,N.Douglas
TI  - Chairing Academic Departments: traditional and emerging expectations 
SN  - 193337103X
AV  - LB2341 .L487 2006
U1  - 378.1/110973 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Bolton, Massachusetts.
PB  - Anker Publishing Comany, Inc
KW  - College department heads
KW  - United States
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Administration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index; The position of academic department chair -- The department chair: then, now, and soon to be -- Characteristics of effective chairs -- Remaining professionally viable while chair -- The chair as keeper of information -- Quality assurance -- Staying legal -- Staying sane -- Working with internal constituents -- Communication -- Working with faculty -- Working with the dean and other administrators -- Interacting with students -- Working with faculty -- Staffing the academic department -- Recruiting and retaining faculty -- Faculty culture -- Guiding faculty careers -- Faculty evaluation -- The challenge of change -- Fiscal constraints in higher education -- Strategic planning -- The chair as campus entrepreneur -- The chair as external entrepreneur -- Preparing to lead change -- Understanding and overcoming resistance to change -- Next steps -- Chair selection and development -- Exiting the chair position -- The benefits to serving as chair
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007472.html
ER  -