Becoming a Department Chair

Roles and Responsibilities of Department Chairs

https://www.uky.edu/ofa/sites/www.uky.edu.ofa/files/uploads/HECHT_roles_respon.pdf

Constructing the Role of Department Chair

https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u108/2015/wmu-ace-constructing-chair.pdf

What New Department Chairs Need to Know

https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-new-department-chairs-need-to-know/

Transitions: From Faculty Member to Department Chair

http://college.emory.edu/faculty/documents/articles/transitions-from-faculty-member-to-department-chair.pdf

Twelve Tips for Department Chairs

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/twelve-tips-for-department-chairs

Myths that Make Department Chairs Think They are Powerless

Myths That Make Chairs Feel They Are Powerless | Saint Mary's College (stmarys-ca.edu)

Words of Advice from Chairs and Deans

Words of Advice from Chairs and Deans (acenet.edu)

The Call to Administer in Academia

https://www.chronicle.com/article/administration-can-be-a-calling

Change Management

On Change III from the American Council on Education (ACE)

ED450621.pdf

McKinsey Guide to Influencing Change

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/themes/your-guide-to-influencing-change?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hlkid=2f7ee52bc8354d5c825d980230f4e141&hctky=1943111&hdpid=ab528f6c-aaa8-4e78-b573-123bb828e3b1

The Challenge of Change—An Article by Former Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg

https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-eds-ruinous-resistance-to-change

Deanship

Ten Suggestions for a New Academic Dean

https://www.chronicle.com/article/10-suggestions-for-a-new-academic-dean/

Seven Essential Qualities in a Good Academic Dean

https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/seven-essential-qualities-in-a-great-academic-dean/

Why Even Good Leaders Make Enemies

https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-even-good-leaders-make-enemies

How Good Leaders Say No

https://www.chronicle.com/article/admin-101-how-good-leaders-say-no

The Vision Thing

https://www.chronicle.com/article/administration-101-the-vision-thing/

Difficult Conversations

Summary of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (book by Stone, Pattyon, and Heen)

difficult-conversations-summary.pdf (harvard.edu)

Diversity and Inclusion

7 Guiding Principles for a JDEI Policy That Isn’t Just Hot Air from Blue Avocado

Executive Leadership

How to be a Great 21st-Century CEO from McKinsey

Faculty Evaluation

Making Faculty Evaluations Count

https://info.umkc.edu/facultyaffairs/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/making-faculty-evaluation-count-ace-article.pdf

The Challenge of Evaluating Faculty Colleagues

https://info.umkc.edu/facultyaffairs/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/challenge-evaluating-faculty-colleagues-ace-article.pdf

Let’s Not Kill Performance Evaluations Yet

https://hbr.org/2016/11/lets-not-kill-performance-evaluations-yet

Getting Rid of Performance Ratings: Genius or Folly? A Debate

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/industrial-and-organizational-psychology/article/getting-rid-of-performance-ratings-genius-or-folly-a-debate/215B47ABDD0DEE3B55BE747B87FFDCBC

Goal Setting

Goal Setting Models

Leading in the Academy

A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader

Part 1: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/academic-leadership/a-10-point-survival-guide-to-being-and-staying-an-academic-leader/

Part 2: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/academic-leadership/a-10-point-survival-guide-to-being-and-staying-an-academic-leader-part-2/

How to Manage the Strategic Planning Process

https://www.chronicle.com/article/admin-101-how-to-manage-the-strategic-planning-process/

The Art of Gracefully Accepting Defeat

https://www.chronicle.com/article/admin-101-the-art-of-gracefully-accepting-defeat

Are You Acting with Integrity of Just Sabotaging Yourself?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-management-corner-are-you-acting-with-integrity-or-just-sabotaging-yourself/

What to Know About Alumni Relations

https://www.chronicle.com/article/admin-101-what-to-know-about-alumni-relations/

Why It’s Hard to Operate Outside the Box in Academe

https://www.chronicle.com/article/admin-101-why-its-hard-to-operate-outside-the-box-in-academe/

Managing Up: 4 types of bosses and how best to manage them, according to science. from Fast Company

https://www.fastcompany.com/90759783/four-types-of-bosses-and-how-best-to-manage-them-according-to-science

Managing the Academic Department

Conflict Management Tool

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2015/02/20/advice-department-chairs-managing-conflict-essay

Purposeful Approach to Teamwork

https://www2.acenet.edu/resources/chairs/docs/Glenn_teams.pdf

A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader

Part 1: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/academic-leadership/a-10-point-survival-guide-to-being-and-staying-an-academic-leader/

Part 2: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/academic-leadership/a-10-point-survival-guide-to-being-and-staying-an-academic-leader-part-2/

Dealing with Dysfunctional Academic Departments

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/03/22/advice-academic-leaders-handling-troublesome-units-essay

Sage Advice for Department Chairs

https://www.chronicle.com/article/5-lessons-for-higher-eds-least-powerful-administrators?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_6716584_nl_Afternoon-Update_date_20230427&cid=pm&source=ams&sourceid=

New Senior Leaders (Heads of School)

NAIS Tips for New Leaders

Triangle Associates Tips for New Heads

LT_May1_2024.pdf (squarespace.com)

Strategic Planning

The Truth About Strategic Plans (Chronicle of Higher Education article)

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-truth-about-strategic-plans

Women in University Leadership

American Council on Education Resource Center for Women in Leadership

Women's Leadership (acenet.edu)