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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

April 17, 2025

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

April 17, 2025

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

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Jossey-Bass Department Chair Leadership Institute

April 17, 2025

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

April 17, 2025

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