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Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance

The Path Toward Family-Friendly Institutions

December 6, 2012

Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance gives voice to faculty and reveals the myriad of personal and professional issues faculty face over the span of their academic careers.

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The Department Chair Primer

What Chairs Need to Know and Do to Make a Difference

December 6, 2012

The Department Chair Primer provides the practical information that chairs need to do their jobs well.

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Study Identifies 5 Most Helpful Experiences for Moving from Faculty to Department Chair

December 6, 2012

Brenda Coppard, chair of occupational therapy at Creighton University, focused her research on the transition new chairs experience.

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The Essential Department Chair

A Comprehensive Desk Reference, 2nd Edition

December 5, 2012

The new edition incorporates many timely topics, such as department ethics and politics, accounting for sponsored research, and addressing staff conflicts, and is now truly more than a guide—it’s a much-needed desk reference, a book that includes “everything you need to know to be a department chair.”

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Chairing Academic Departments

Traditional and Emerging Expectations

December 5, 2012

The author offers experience-based suggestions for new, existing, and potential chairs as they face a higher education enterprise that is undergoing significant change.

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Podcast: Essential Advice that Every Department Chair Can Use

October 31, 2024

Jossey-Bass author and presenter Jeffrey Buller offers advice to Department Chairs on time management in this podcast.

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Publication: Academic Leader

October 31, 2024

Academic Leader is a newsletter dedicated to providing ideas and insight to academic leaders.

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Jossey-Bass Department Chair Leadership Institute

October 31, 2024

The Jossey-Bass Department Chair Leadership Institute hosts a wealth of resources for the professional enrichment of academic leaders.

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Article: 10 Suggestions for a New Department Chair

October 31, 2024

Michael C. Munger, three-term department chair at Duke University, shares his suggestions for what qualities are important to be a successful department chair.