Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department (JB - Anker)

By Deryl Leaming

This well-written and practical guide to managing an academic department covers all the many responsibilities of a department chair, including some of the newest and trickiest. Based on his 20 years... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882982223
• ISBN13: 9781882982226
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A must have for new chairpersons

I wish the dean had given me this book a year ago. It would have made my life much easier. The book is easy to read and has solid ideas on how to be a more effective chairperson. If only I could get some of the administrators of my university to read the book!

Most helpful book

I am not only new to academic leadership, but I am new to this country. Deryl Leaming's book has served as an enlightening guide for me, and has helped me earn the assistance and respect of my faculty. This book is among the best investments I have made in my academic career. Thank you.

Not just practical -- this book is necessary

If you've suddenly found yourself in a leadership role, don't panic. Order this book. Do it right now. I've only had it a few weeks and it's already saved my career from an early demise. I'll even credit this book with lowering my diastolic blood pressure by five points. My dog-eared copy goes to and from work with me everyday. Leaming has not only anticipated every possible landmine on the Ho Chi Minh trail of academic leadership -- but he can clearly communicate and expertly tell you how to disarm them before they explode. He shows the reader how to anticipate and prepare for every challenge that will likely arise.A friend (angel?) sent me this book, gift wrapped, to congratulate me on my recent promotion. It'll be difficult to return that favor.

Expert advice on chairing a college department

Dr. Leaming's book provides a comforting reminder that we need not > waste time and energy reinventing the wheel. New and veteran > administrators, particularly at the academic departmental level, can gain > invaluable guidance by taking advantage of Dean Leaming's 30-plus years of > experience. Whatever they are experiencing, he has already been through -- > numerous times. He knows their challenges and anxieties, and, > more importantly, the solutions to them. > > His book is written in plain, easy-to-understand language. It deals > with everyday duties from attracting and hiring the most qualified people > to dismissing those who don't work out, and from encouraging good teaching > and research to dealing with difficult faculty members. The book also > includes helpful summaries, checklists, tables and sample forms. > > Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department is a must-have resource book for the newly appointed department head who wantsto avoid the trial-and-error management method. Dr. Leaming has been a department head at five universites and a dean at two. And he has laid out a roadmap that will come in handy continually for even the experienced person who still has a distance to travel down the administrative highway. >

Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Depar

Moving from classroom teacher to the role of departmental chairperson often can be fraught with many challenges such a role change presents. Dr. Deryl R. Leaming's text, Academic Leadership, A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department, is a welcome and valuable resource, particularly for the new administrator faced with more issues than ever in today's changing academics. Dr. Leaming knows what he's writing about. He has been there, done that, so to speak, with more than 30 years of experience at five respected universities. His book is indeed a practical guide, offering insight in such areas as faculty evaluation, budgets, time management, legal problems and recruiting students and faculty, to list just a few of the 26 chapters of relevant topics. A real plus is the easy to understand writing style. He's a communications specialist and it shows in his presentation. This is one text that you'll keep on your desktop, not the book shelve