This web page serves as a gateway for resources that DePauw's department chairs and program directors might find useful. Suggestions, modifications, and/or corrections should be directed to the VPAA's ...

This comprehensive virtual leadership series for department chairs will kick off with strategy workshops to identify shared challenges, followed by six seminars focusing on national trends in higher ...

Note: In the “Ask the Chair” series, the author of How to Chair a Department answers your questions about departmental leadership. Send your queries via Facebook or email. Read previous columns here.

Department Chairs fall into the following categories. The term "Split" indicates chairs who hold a partial chair appointment AND a partial academic year, instructional appointment. Department chair ...

Schools often segment into departments to facilitate planning, organization and structure in academics. Department members might meet to link cross-content objectives, share best practices, select ...

Every department at a college has one: a chair who, typically, is a faculty member in that department, assigned by the dean to manage the department. The department chair usually has the plush corner ...

Pratt Institute, one of the largest and most prestigious colleges of art and design in the United States, has named four new department chairs; one in The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and three ...

There are many required roles at universities for which most academics are not well prepared. Management, budgets, accounting, public communication, functioning as part of a system, advocacy, and ...

Last month at Sonoma State University’s School of Arts and Humanities, where I serve as dean, the art and art history department elected as its new chair the outgoing chair of the English department.

I started my first semester as department chair this fall. While I had an afternoon of training over the summer, it didn’t prepare me for the job. I’ve already made a ton of mistakes, my colleagues ...

The Office of the Provost reviews recommendations for department chair appointments and sends them to the university president for final decision and appointment. Search and other requirements are ...