The Strategic Department Chair

Leading for Academic Research Success
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-94015-1
Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 257 g

Today, more than ever, Department Chairs need to be equipped with strategies to lead their departments to success in research. The Strategic Department Chair: Leading for Academic Research Success provides techniques not only to cultivate a department that is successful in research, but also to sustain that level of productivity. The book offers Department Chairs a valuable resource for negotiating the real-life challenges that they will face as academic leaders.

Key Features:

- Provides Ten Top Tips for Chairing for Research Success

- Provides step-by-step guidelines for mentoring new faculty to advance their research trajectories alongside broader strategies for developing their tenure and promotion portfolios

- Explains how to avoid common pitfalls, supplying critical tips for challenges common to Department Chairs, including a chapter on Facing Challenges: Assistant Professors without Success in Research

- Provides strategies to mentor mid-career faculty and win-win strategies for enhancing graduate student success while advancing faculty research success

- Illustrates key concepts with case studies and example initiatives that can be put into administrative practice

Written by a Department Chair at a Carnegie R1-level (highly research active) University and a former Associate Dean for Research with a history of continual funding from NIH and national foundations, The Strategic Department Chair: Leading for Academic Research Success provides a toolbox of approaches that can immediately be put into action. Therefore, this text is not only relevant for new Department Chairs, but also for existing Chairs, in a wide range of research-based areas including STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Public Health, Medicine, and the Natural Sciences.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chasan-Taber, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 10 Top Tips for Chairing for Research Success. 2. Stepping up to Chair. 3. Strategies for Recruitment of Faculty with Research Potential. 4. Strategies for Onboarding New Assistant Professors. 5. Strategies to Advance Faculty Excellence in Research. 6. Strategies to Advance Faculty Success in Teaching. 7. Strategies to Advance Faculty Success in Service. 8. Facing Challenges: Assistant Professors without Success in Research. 9. Strategies for Departmental Infrastructure - Setting Up Faculty for Success. 10. Strategies for Crafting a Successful Tenure/Promotion Portfolio. 11. Strategies for Mid-career Mentoring: Retention and Promotion to Full Professor. 12. Research Synergies between Faculty and Graduate Students. 13. Strategies for Managing Up – Working Effectively with Your Dean.

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Chasan-Taber is a former Department Chair and Associate Dean for Research at a Carnegie R1-level (highly research-active) university with a history of continual funding from the NIH and national foundations. The Strategic Department Chair: Leading for Academic Research Success provides a toolbox of approaches that can immediately be put into action. Therefore, this text is relevant not only for new Department Chairs but also for existing Chairs in a wide range of research-based areas, including STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), public health, medicine, and the natural sciences.