“I wasn’t trained for this!” – What are core skills for department chairs and how can you prepare yourself for taking on a leadership role in your department
Start here: Department Chair Overview
Management – Budget, Scheduling, Reviews & more
- Budgeting and finances workshop slides and notes (from October 2024)
- Data Dashboard workshop recording and slides (from November 2024)
- Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads
Interpersonal – working with students, faculty and staff
Staff – UNH Human Resources Coaching for Performance
Faculty – UNHLU- AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement (lecturer faculty contract)
Faculty - AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement (tenure-track faculty contract)
Faculty – Promotion & Tenure (Office of the Provost site)
All – Reporting obligations (CREO office video)
Resources
- Chronicle of Higher Education (especially the ‘Ask the Chair’ columns)
- Kevin Dettmar How to Chair a Department (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)
- Inside Higher Ed (especially ‘Advancing as an Administrator’ or ‘Seeking an Administrative Job’)
- HER Institute https://hersnetwork.org/
- Your discipline may have opportunities, for example:
- Modern Languages Association (English, World Languages) https://www.maps.mla.org/About-MAPS
- American Chemistry Society https://institute.acs.org/acs-center/leadership-development.html
Contact info
- Reach out to E3 to be connected with a leadership faculty fellow to talk about planning for taking on leadership role in your department or college (unh.e3@unh.edu).
