Advancing By Retreating part of Department Heads and Chairs
A faculty retreat can be an effective yet daring way to address difficult issues that arise in academic departments. Whether the issues deal with developing a hiring plan, restructuring curricula, or coping with ...

Strategic Planning part of Department Heads and Chairs
× A strong department has a unified vision and a plan for achieving it. The resources and references below will help you to understand why and how to lead your department in developing a vision and ...

Managing a Department part of Department Heads and Chairs
× Managing a department is very different from managing your own academic career. As the head or chair of a department, it is your job to prepare budgets, allocate resources, help resolve problems, evaluate ...

Opportunities and Threats: A View from the Top part of Department Heads and Chairs
Geoscience Departments: Developing Pathways to Strong Programs for the Future × Workshop Welcoming Remarks Geoff Feiss, Provost, College of William and Mary 24 February, 2005 Download PDF version (Acrobat ...

Hiring Plan / Budget Game part of Department Heads and Chairs
× This Excel spreadsheet game was designed by Dr. E. Scott Bair to be used at an overnight departmental retreat his department took in October 2001. The goal of the retreat was to come up with a Hiring Plan. ...

Aiming at Excellence as Our Science Evolves Amidst the Bumpiness of Modern Academia part of Department Heads and Chairs
David Jon Furbish, Vanderbilt University This page is adapted from a presentation delivered in a session at the 2005 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA. You can also download ...

Recruiting and Retaining Faculty part of Department Heads and Chairs
× Faculty drive the education and research that propel the modern department. Ensuring that your department attracts and keeps energetic and productive faculty members is important in maintaining a vibrant ...

Resources and Strategies for Recruiting a Diverse Faculty part of Department Heads and Chairs
David Mogk, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Montana State University The goal of attaining a diverse faculty that is representative of our students (and of society) has yet to be achieved in the geosciences, despite ...

Department Heads and Chairs part of Department Heads and Chairs
"I have always found it fascinating that an institution dedicated to training professionals to assume positions of leadership in society does absolutely nothing to train its own leaders in the essential ...

A Flourishing Faculty Environment part of Department Heads and Chairs
This page highlights some of the interesting ideas coming out of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico. There has been a concerted effort to provide faculty with an ...