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010			_a 2006007472
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050	0	0	_aLB2341 _b.L487 2006
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100	1		_aLees, N. Douglas.
245	1	0	_aChairing Academic Departments : _btraditional and emerging expectations / _cN. Douglas Lees.
260			_aBolton, Massachusetts. : _bAnker Publishing Comany, Inc, _cc2006.
300			_axiii, 338 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index.
521			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aCollege department heads _zUnited States.
650		0	_aUniversities and colleges _zUnited States _xAdministration.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007472.html
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