George Justice discusses the role of academic department chair, a position requiring patience, stamina, intelligence, vision, and sensitivity. He introduces The Chronicle’s Strategic Leadership Program: Department Chairs.
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The job of chair is tough.
If you’re a chair, you know that already.
If you’re a dean or a provost, you also know that already, whether or not you, yourself, once served in the role.
The chair is in the middle, between faculty and administration, between, really, between order and chaos.
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