Leading Academic Change: Essential Roles for Department Chairs

by Ann F. Lucas

Book Overview

"To ensure its continued validity, higher education needs to change, something it cannot do without the participation of department chairs. In this book, Ann Lucas has assembled some of the most thoughtful people in higher education to provide the 'line leaders' of higher education with the essential knowledge they need to bring those changes about."

--Margaret A. Miller, president, American Association for Higher Education

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787946826
• ISBN13: 9780787946821
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Review from an Academic Chair

This book is for new academic chairs, or division leaders. It provides a framework and set of useful strategies for new leaders working in a climate of change and uncertainty for faculty. The themes emphasized include faculty participation, shaping the future, defining the unit's focus, and engaging all voices. It provides comfort for new leaders since it emphasizes shared vision and dispells the conventional thinking that academic leaders must have all the answers.