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ERIC Number: EJ1460653
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0742-5627
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1758
Available Date: 2024-06-14
Department Chairs as Change Agents: A Virtual Cross-Institutional Professional Development Model for Chairs
Innovative Higher Education, v50 n1 p59-84 2025
Department chairs are crucial in impacting departmental climate, conveying expectations, and providing merit assessments. Therefore, they have the most influence in retaining highly qualified faculty. Most department chairs come from the faculty ranks and lack formal training in key management, communication, and administrative skills, including performance reviews, resource allocation and budgeting, legal and compliance issues, promotion and tenure determinations, conflict resolution, and the inclusive management of people with diverse identities. Recognizing the critical role of department chairs and the evident gap in their training, we developed a series of chair workshops to provide ongoing professional development for department chairs across multiple semesters. These workshops were designed as part of a multi-university collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation to create more inclusive environments in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) units. However, the offerings were expanded to include all units on all campuses. This paper outlines our approach to developing these professional development workshops and describes the workshop designs and how we incorporated participant feedback. Additionally, we offer suggestions for others designing and implementing chair professional development workshops together with areas for future advancements in chair professional development.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1935960; 1935942; 1935932; 1935944
Author Affiliations: 1Iowa State University, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, USA; 2Western Michigan University, College of Arts and Sciences, Kalamazoo, USA; 3North Dakota State University, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Fargo, USA; 4Michigan Technological University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Houghton, USA; 5University of Dayton, College of Engineering, Dayton, USA