Chairing Academic Departments: Traditional and Emerging Expectations

by N. Douglas Lees

What role does the position of department chair occupy in higher education today? Once characterized as largely a management function, the 21st-century department chair is now facing a host of emerging challenges that require additional skills and fresh approaches to fulfilling the role. In Chairing Academic Departments , the author offers experience-based suggestions for new, existing, and potential chairs as they face a higher education enterprise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193337103X
• ISBN13: 9781933371030
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Anker Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"