This document discusses the roles and responsibilities of being a department chair or director. It outlines four main roles: faculty developer, manager, leader, and scholar. It also discusses the transitions involved in moving from faculty to leadership, such as going from autonomy to accountability. The document provides advice for chairs, such as knowing your goals and colleagues, setting boundaries, listening well, and having key responses prepared for complaints. It stresses the importance of work-life balance and notes that chairs must balance responsibilities to faculty with accountability to deans.
This document discusses the roles and responsibilities of being a department chair or director. It outlines four main roles: faculty developer, manager, leader, and scholar. It also discusses the transitions involved in moving from faculty to leadership, such as going from autonomy to accountability. The document provides advice for chairs, such as knowing your goals and colleagues, setting boundaries, listening well, and having key responses prepared for complaints. It stresses the importance of work-life balance and notes that chairs must balance responsibilities to faculty with accountability to deans.
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This document discusses the roles and responsibilities of being a department chair or director. It outlines four main roles: faculty developer, manager, leader, and scholar. It also discusses the transitions involved in moving from faculty to leadership, such as going from autonomy to accountability. The document provides advice for chairs, such as knowing your goals and colleagues, setting boundaries, listening well, and having key responses prepared for complaints. It stresses the importance of work-life balance and notes that chairs must balance responsibilities to faculty with accountability to deans.
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director Four Roles of Department Chairs • Faculty developer • Manager • Leader • Scholar • • • Gmelch & Miskin, 1993 Transitions to Leadership
• From solitary to social
• From focused to fragmented • From autonomy to accountability • From manuscript to memoranda • From private to public • From professing to persuading • Gmelch & Seedorf, 1989 Transitions to Leadership
• From stability to mobility
• From client to custodian • From austerity to prosperity
Gmelch & Miskin, 1993
Survival Guide Advice: Know Yourself • Know why you took the job • Know your goals (2-3 to accomplish over your term) • Know what pushes your buttons • • Gunsalus, 2006 Survival Guide Advice
• Know your colleagues
• Set boundaries • Listen well • Key sentences • • Gunsalus, 2006 Key Sentences for Complaints • “What action do you seek from me?” • “Now that I have listened carefully to you, I need to find out what the other people involved have to say. I’ll get back to you after I do that.” • “You need to do what you need to do.” • Gunsalus, 2006 • Work-Life Balance
• Critically important to newer generation
of faculty • Starts at the department level – Class & meeting scheduling – Release from teaching in a semester when a child is born or adopted – Culture of acceptance of family demands Chair as “Person in the Middle” • Responsible to the faculty and staff • Accountable to the dean • Balancing act Problem Issues
• Seek help • Follow procedures set by the University or college • Don’t improvise on procedures