The Strategic Department Chair

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.