Chairing an academic department comes with a multitude of responsibilities in a wide variety of areas. As a new department chair, you immediately confront many of the basics of academic leadership: managing budgets, supporting faculty, resolving conflict, and facilitating change, to name a few of the topics covered in The Essentials for New Department Chairs, the companion to this booklet. This collection is designed to help you navigate the further intricacies of your role. Bringing together in one place for the first time sound advice and proven strategies from experts in the field, these articles from The Department Chair provide practical tips on such topics as post-tenure review, work-life balance for faculty, fundraising, departmental planning, and preparing your administrative r sum . Every selection contains easily accessible strategies and advice that you can put to use immediately. The range of articles covers the important functions of academic departments, and the authors impart the skills and thinking you need to enhance your leadership capabilities. For brand-new department chairs this booklet will provide you with an overview of the complexities of the chair role. For those chairs with a year or two more experience this booklet will provide direction and guidance as you delve more deeply into your responsibilities. Designed to provide a wealth of strategies in five crucial areas?faculty recruitment and evaluation, faculty mentoring and development, enhancing teaching and building community, departmental initiatives, and chair development and next steps?the expert advice and field-tested techniques presented here offer essential insights into this important chair work. This collection will equip you with lessons to draw from and best practices for leading into the future.

Chairing an academic department comes with a multitude ofresponsibilities in a wide variety of areas. As a new departmentchair, you immediately confront many of the basics of academicleadership: managing budgets, supporting faculty, resolvingconflict, and facilitating change, to name a few of the topicscovered in The Essentials for New Department Chairsthe companion to this booklet. This collection is designed to helpyou navigate the further intricacies of your role.Bringing together in one place for the first time sound adviceand proven strategies from experts in the field, these articlesfrom The Department Chair provide practical tips onsuch topics as post-tenure review, work-life balance for facultyfundraising, departmental planning, and preparing youradministrative résumé. Every selection contains easilyaccessible strategies and advice that you can put to useimmediately. The range of articles covers the important functionsof academic departments, and the authors impart the skills andthinking you need to enhance your leadership capabilities. Forbrand-new department chairs this booklet will provide you with anoverview of the complexities of the chair role. For those chairswith a year or two more experience this booklet will providedirection and guidance as you delve more deeply into yourresponsibilities.Designed to provide a wealth of strategies in five crucialareas?faculty recruitment and evaluation, faculty mentoring anddevelopment, enhancing teaching and building communitydepartmental initiatives, and chair development and next steps?theexpert advice and field-tested techniques presented here offeressential insights into this important chair work. This collectionwill equip you with lessons to draw from and best practices forleading into the future.

Introduction 1Faculty Recruitment and EvaluationNew Challenges in Faculty Recruiting 2by N. Douglas Lees and Gautam VemuriDiversity at the Department Level 7by Lynn M. Maurer, Anthony Q. Cheeseboro, and PatrickMurphyThe Faculty Handbook: A Guide or a Labyrinth? 12by Jon K. DalagerThe Chair as Evaluation "Charlatan" 17by Christine M. Licata and N. Douglas LeesFaculty Mentoring and DevelopmentA Collaborative for Mentoring New Faculty 23by Suzanne W. Soled, Melissa M. Jones, Daniel W. DoergerJaesook L. Gilbert, and Sara K. EisenhardtMentoring Tenured Faculty: Rationales and Programs 28by Jacquelyn S. Litt, Sheryl A. Tucker, and Jill M.HermsenEnergizing the Senior Professor 34by Barbara Oney GarveyMentoring and Faculty Development 41by Carol A. MullenEnhancing Teaching and Building CommunityBuilding a Shared Value of Teaching in a Department: What ChairsCan Do 47by Mary C. WrightMotivating Faculty to Engage in Service-Learning 51by Debra BurkeJoyful Chairing: Finding Joy in Committee Work 57by Kina S. Mallard and Mark L. SargentDepartment Chairs and Work-Life Flexibility for Faculty 61by Kate QuinnEngaging Faculty: Departmental Shared GovernanceThat Works 66 by Mary L. FisherDepartmental InitiativesHitting the Ground Running: Making Strategic Changes 72by John PaxtonThe Department Advisory Board as an Academic Partner 77by Dan W. FrenchReframing Departmental Planning 83by Mark PutnamConducting an Annual Fund Campaign 87by Jeffrey L. BullerChair Development and Next StepsAdministrative Reflection: Focal Points and Considerations forDepartment Chairs 93by David A. BirchTaking Your Administrative Résumé to the Next Level ofExcellence 98by Jeffrey L. BullerPreparing for Your Departure as Chair 103by N. Douglas Lees