Summary: How to Chair a Department is a practical, accessible handbook for new and prospective chairs, providing both principles and practices for effective departmental leadership.

Summary: "this book provides a practical approach to leadership based upon the notion that the best way to improve organizations and the lives of those within them is by improving their leaders."

Summary: As illustrated in this book, the key to managing conflicts is to understand conflicts; expect conflicts, and manage conflicts before they escalate into destructive or costly loss of personnel, diminished climate or lead to lawsuits. The book provides one of the growing and recognized methods of dealing with conflicts mediation and dialogue.

Summary: Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom initiates a scholarly and professional conversation, calling upon faculty to participate in, re-imagine, and transform their institutional and professional work to look beyond just teaching and research.

Summary: This book empowers all administrators in higher education to engage in their work―to make decisions, hire, mentor, budget, create plans, and carry out other day-to-day operations―with a clear commitment to justice, sensitivity to power and privilege, and capacity to facilitate equitable outcomes.

Summary: hrewd administrators have returned to the guide time and again for C. K. Gunsalus’s advice on handling complaints, negotiating disagreements, and dealing with difficult personalities. This revised and updated edition guides rookie administrators and seasoned veterans through today’s most pressing higher-education challenges.

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