Advancing By Retreating part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...

Resources and Strategies for Recruiting a Diverse Faculty part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...

Strategic Planning part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...

Department Heads and Chairs part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...

Being an Advocate for Your Department part of Strong Geoscience Departments:Department Heads and Chairs
In a time when geology departments face increasing pressures on their success and continued existence, it is essential to promote your department on campus. Many administrators consider the geosciences to be ...

Managing a Department part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...

Evaluating Teaching part of Strong Geoscience Departments:Department Heads and Chairs
The evaluation of the quality of classroom instruction can be a sticky issue. In general, students are asked to evaluate their instructors at the end of each semester. Some faculty dispute, or at least wonder ...

Aiming at Excellence as Our Science Evolves Amidst the Bumpiness of Modern Academia part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...

Hiring Plan / Budget Game part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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. ...

A Flourishing Faculty Environment part of Strong Geoscience Departments: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 ...