Download or read book Department Chair Roles in the Community College written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community college mission has been revised as it has redefined the populations it serves and how the work is accomplished in response to global influences (Levin, 2000). However, the department chair has received little attention by those who study globalization and the community college (Levin, 2001). As community colleges revise their responsibilities according to local, state, and national mandates, department chairs find themselves in a maelstrom of change. The changing environment adds complexity to the chair position and influences chair behaviors. Chairs find themselves at critical junctures to influence key stakeholders within the college. This qualitative investigation examines two community colleges in the state of North Carolina as a specific context of institutional change. The data indicate that community college department chairs focus most of their attention on formal supervisory roles, followed by formal teaching roles, and then informal group maintenance roles. Perceptions of role importance were affected by constraints throughout the institution. Constraints on community college department chairs include the unequal dissemination of institutional resources among departments at the college and by college administrators, technology availability and training, as well as local variables that influence the community college. Department chairs are also limited in their actions by role ambiguity and by institutional bureaucracy. This situation uniquely positions chairs as both 'managed professionals' and 'managerial professionals, ' indicating a new category of professional in higher education. Department chairs' understanding of their roles may help practitioners wield influence more competently in their institutions and may help theorists more accurately conceptualize how community college leaders manage the department as the institution meets the challenges associated with globalization. This study adds to the body of knowledge by giving theorists a.

Download or read book Department Chair Roles in the Community College written by John W. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: group leadership in higher education, globalization and the community college, professional status of faculty, higher education and critical theory, higher education administration.

Download or read book Illinois Public Community College Department Chair Roles and Role Conflict written by Kristine M. Young and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research had two purposes: to determine community college department chair roles and to determine whether role conflict exists for the status of Illinois public community college department chair. The research was divided into two phases. In Phase I, community college department chair role factors were determined. Using ratings of importance reported by a sample of Illinois public community college department chairs on a modified version of Carroll and Gmelch0́9s (1992) department chair duty questionnaire, principal components analysis was employed to determine an underlying factor structure. Five factors were determined and interpreted as department chair roles: Department Leader, Resource Manager, Faculty Leader, Instructional Manager, and Teacher and Student Adviser. It was also determined whether the importance placed on department chair roles varied by department chair characteristic variables of academic discipline, departmental disciplinary composition, size of department, length of service as chair, whether the chair was elected by faculty or selected by administration, number of years served as a full-time faculty member prior to becoming department chair, and teaching load. Results indicated that certain characteristic variables of Illinois public community college department chairs influence the importance they ascribe to department chair roles. It was also determined in Phase I that role conflict and role overload exist to a mild to moderate extent for the Illinois public community college department chair status. In addition, a specific expression of role overload, namely, department chairs spending an inordinate amount of time performing roles they find of greater importance, may have been determined. In Phase II, the complete role set of department chairs, faculty, and the chief academic officer at one Illinois public community college was studied. It was determined that with minor exceptions, full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and the chief academic officer ascribed the same level of importance to the roles determined in Phase I as did the department chairs. Additionally, no statistically significant differences were found on the importance ascribed to department chair roles based on departmental disciplinary composition or length of faculty service by full and part-time faculty.

Download or read book The Department Chair written by Alan T. Seagren and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1993-02-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the changing role of the academic department chair in the areas of leadership, influence, and faculty development. The paper uses research insights to explore the situation of an academic chair who is squeezed between the demands of upper administration and the expectations of faculty, staff, and students. Studies of the roles and responsibilities of chairs consistently show that the role is ambiguous, unclear in authority, and difficult to classify as faculty or administrator. The tradition of faculty ownership dictates that chair leadership must emphasize empowering activities. The most effective use of political influence and power understands the political forces and processes of the institution and maneuvers groups and coalitions to achieve the autonomy and control necessary to a strong department. Faculty evaluation provides a chair with a powerful opportunity for developing quality. In addition, the chair must recognize how institutional type, history, and culture, model of governance, and discipline can influence what is expected. In the coming years chairs will need a program of professional development on many fronts to acquire the skills to address the complex challenges they will face. (Contains over 200 references.) (JB).

Download or read book Academic Leadership in Community Colleges written by Alan T. Seagren and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many challenges face community; technical, and junior colleges as they prepare for the 21st century. The more than 1,400 community colleges in the United States and Canada are led by approximately 14,000 academic deans and department heads, each of whom must balance the demands of the students, faculties, sponsors, community, and the college itself. As college enrollments increase, so do responsibilities, problems, and stress. Fur-ther stress will come to bear upon com-munity colleges in the next decade, when 40% of their academic leaders are expected to retire. There is justifiable concern about the identification, recruitment, and preparation of individuals to assume vacant leadership positions. Academic Leadership in Community Colleges provides the neces-sary touchstones and guidelines for per-sons within institutions preparing for new leadership. Written by professional educators, this book is based on a survey of 3,000 deans and department heads in community col-leges in the United States and Canada. The survey disclosed the broad variety of responsibilities, organizational structures, and developmental strategies exercised by academic leaders in community colleges from coast to coast. The research was conducted by the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and supported by the National Community College Chair Academy. Introductory chapters present compara-tive information about community col-leges: their various missions, instructional units, and demographic situations. Other chapters focus on the beliefs and values, tasks, skills, competition, and challenges that greet academic leaders. Readers will find useful strategies for confronting frequent problems and procedures for achieving greater college cohesion and efficiency.

Download or read book Chairing the Academic Department written by Allan Tucker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third edition of a handbook for the academic administrator promoted from the faculty ranks with little administrative skill or know-how. Provides an depth examination of the typical duties and responsibilities of a department chair that covers an awful lot of ground: from curriculum management to co

Download or read book The Department Chair s Role in Developing New Faculty Into Teachers and Scholars written by Estela Mara Benisimon and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the ranks of new incoming faculty likely to swell in coming years, hiring new tenure-track instructors and seeing them through to tenure is a department chair's responsibility that carries significant departmental and institutional consequences. 'The Department Chair's Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars' is designed to help chairs with the three critical stages of new faculty socialization: recruitment and hiring; developing faculty in the first year; evaluating new faculty performance. The authors offer concrete advice and activities; model real-life situations; and provide examples of letters, checklists, and orientations that can be adapted to individual contexts. This book provides the tools chairs need to adapt habit and intuition into effective management practices. The authors' advice will help new faculty succeed in their goals of teaching, research, and service and their new institutions, while ensuring department chairs achieve the mission and objective of their own units and the campus and college as a whole."--

Download or read book The College Administrator s Survival Guide written by C. K. Gunsalus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a widely respected advisor on academic administration and ethics offers tips, insights, and tools for handling complaints, negotiating disagreements, responding to accusations of misconduct, and dealing with difficult personalities. With humor and generosity, C. K. Gunsalus applies scenarios based on real-life cases to guide academic administrators through the dilemmas of management in not-entirely-manageable environments.

Download or read book Leadership Role of the Department Chair in Private Colleges written by Adam Allen Morris and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Profile of California Community College Department Chairs written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postsecondary education is comprised of unique organizational and leadership structures not seen outside of academia, for example, the department chair position which is cited as an essential position in the literature. An understudied population particularly in community colleges, the chair position is multi-faceted, ambiguous, and often contradictory in that chairs are often expected to perform administrative tasks that involve supervising faculty colleagues without the necessary positional authority or corresponding training. This quantitative study sought to develop a descriptive profile of the California community college (CCC) chair and to explore their perceptions of three job dimensions: chair roles, tasks, and skills. Exploratory in nature, the research protocol queried instructional chairs at all 112 California community colleges using a modified version of the 1992 International Community College Chair Survey. The study described characteristics of the chair position (i.e., title, length of term, appointment process, release/reassigned time); personal characteristics of CCC chairs (i.e., age, gender, years of experience as chair, education); and the perceived importance of various roles, tasks and responsibilities, and skills essential to their chairship. Implications for future research and suggestions for practice are discussed. The results of the study will be important to college chairs, administrators, and the California community college system for describing the nature of the current position, and more importantly, for use in chair development and leadership training programs.

Download or read book The Department Chair Primer written by Don Chu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If higher education is to fulfill its vital social mission, new department leaders must be prepared for their positions and get up to speed on the basics quickly, educating themselves about the role and continuing to learn on the job. In this second edition of his classic resource, Don Chu outlines the proven ideas and strategies new department chairs need in order to do their jobs well. Thoroughly revised and updated, The Department Chair Primer contains information that addresses the current pressures and challenges in higher education and offers practical suggestions for responding to them. Filled with illustrative examples, the book gets straight to the heart of challenges and issues. Each chapter details a particular problem, includes a brief introduction to the topic, and provides tips on how to deal with the situation. Covering a wealth of topics, The Department Chair Primer Explores the chair's role as department leader Offers suggestions for handling stress and conflict Includes information on budgeting, resource management, and development Contains strategies for professional development, people management, and working with challenging personnel Presents ideas for handling department communications, student development, and strategic positioning Written in a concise and accessible manner, The Department Chair Primer is an ideal resource for the busy new department chair.

Download or read book Positive Academic Leadership written by Jeffrey L. Buller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Positive Academic Leadership, Jeffrey Buller offers new insights and practical tools, as well as language and tactics, for fostering a more effective approach to leadership. With acumen and a dash of humor, he shows leaders how they can take the focus off the negative and change what they say, their perspectives, and their strategies. This more constructive leadership style plays to the strengths of leaders rather than to the weaknesses of their institutions. Offering time-tested and fresh ideas for becoming the type of leader who acts as a coach, counselor, and conductor for faculty, staff, and students, Buller demonstrates how positive leadership can become a day-to-day practice. With its down-to-earth style, the book draws on the most current research on positive leadership in neuroscience, psychology, management, organizational behavior, and other disciplines and translates their lessons into readable and accessible recommendations. It then makes these recommendations come to life by providing real-world examples that illustrate how to implement positive leadership strategies in all spheres of the leader’s activities and institution. Positive Academic Leadership is a wise guide for transforming any leader’s attitude about inevitable daily crises into manageable challenges that are based on a philosophy of accepting the environment and situation but working to make things better.

Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Download or read book Chairing an Academic Department written by Walter H. Gmelch and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have just been selected to chair your department. Now a thousand questions and challenges await you. How do you recruit new, qualified faculty? How do you balance your time between managing a department and pursuing your own academic research? How do you allocate department resources? How do you prepare the budget? The answer to these and other vital questions confronting chairs of academic departments are clearly answered in this practical volume. Authors Walter Gmelch and Val Miskin describe all the basic tools necessary to being an effective academic chair. From recruiting and developing strong faculty to juggling the dual role of manager and scholar, this book covers every aspect of chairing an academic department.

Download or read book Exploring the Preparation and Readiness for the Department Chair Role written by Joan L. Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract Exploring the Preparation and Readiness for the Department Chair Role By Joan L. Schneider Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership The growing shortage of community college leaders in the United States is expected to increase steadily in the next few years due to a mass retirement of deans, presidents and provosts. The failure of community colleges in California to prepare to replenish the leadership pipeline threatens the mission, function, and livelihood of these essential institutions. Those who hold the title of president, provost, or dean often begin their leadership path as a chair of an academic department. Department chairs have historically and typically assumed their role with no formal knowledge and skill preparation to enable them to serve effectively. This study explored how prepared and role-ready department chair perceived themselves to be upon assuming the role. Qualitative methodology and a multiple case-study approach was employed to collect data. The process involved open-ended interviews with twelve department chairs employed within a large community college district. The study used the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition and Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory to explore contributing factors from previous experience that contributed to the preparation and role-readiness of department chairs. A goal of the study was to gather findings that would potentially assist colleges in the professional development of future chairs. Findings were consistent with the body of scholarly work on the role preparation/readiness of department chairs. The majority of chairs received no regular, planned or formal knowledge and skill preparation prior to entering the role. This study found that while most of the participants perceived themselves to be ready to accept the role, they were not prepared to engage in the actions required by the position. This study examined various elements from study participants' professional, academic and life experiences which were felt to be of relevance to their preparation and readiness to serve in the role of department chair. Based on the findings the following recommendations were made: 1) The establishment of in-house professional development programs for faculty interested in leadership positions within the institution, 2) The establishment of a preparatory program for newly elected department chairs combining didactic and mentoring strategies, and 3) Further research on the topic of this study targeting a significantly larger number of participants and using quantitative methodology in addition to qualitative.

Download or read book The Essential Department Chair written by Jeffrey L. Buller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the "how" of academic administration: for instance, how do you cultivate a potential donor for much-needed departmental resources? How do you persuade your department members to work together more harmoniously? How do you keep the people who report to you motivated and capable of seeing the big picture? Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded, this classic resource covers a broad spectrum of timely topics and is now truly more than a guide it's a much-needed desk reference that tells you "everything you need to know to be a department chair." The Essential Department Chair contains information on topics such as essentials of creating a strategic plan, developing and overseeing a budget, key elements of fundraising, preparing for the role of chair, meeting the challenges of mentoring to increase productivity, and creating a more collegial atmosphere. The book also explores the chair's role in the search process, shows how to conduct a successful interview and what to do when it's time to let someone go. And the author includes suggestions for the best practices to adopt when doing an evaluation or assessment. The Essential Department Chair, Second Edition, contains a wealth of new, realistic case studies to equip leaders in this pivotal position to excel in departmental and institutional life.

Download or read book Preparing Department Chairs for Their Leadership Roles written by Rosemary Gillett-Karam and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midlevel managers in the community college often find themselves unprepared for the responsibilities of their complex position. This volume of New Directions for Community Colleges presents the qualities that experienced department chairs cite as being crucial to success and makes a persuasive argument for the need to develop formal training programs for people newly appointed to these positions. The authors discuss leadership theories that can inform and inspire the practice of community college chairs, and they offer a variety of effective leadership development programs designed specifically to meet the unique training needs of midlevel managers in the community college. This is the 105th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Community Colleges.