Latest Updates
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Publication: Academic Leader
October 31, 2024
Academic Leader is a newsletter dedicated to providing ideas and insight to academic leaders.
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.
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.