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 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.

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 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.