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March 29, 2017
The Department Chair’s Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars
- Author
- Bensimon, Estela Mara, Kelly Ward, and Karla Sanders
- Publisher
- Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
- ISBN
- 1882982339
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9647.00171/abstract
- Table of Contents
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ch. 1 Organizing the search for a new faculty member
ch. 2 Negotiating the job offer
ch. 3 Providing information before and upon arrival
ch. 4 Addressing professional/institutional questions
ch. 5 Planning an effective departmental orientation
ch. 6 Orienting new faculty to teaching
ch. 7 Addressing service concerns
ch. 8 Developing full-year orientation programs
ch. 9 Creating mentoring relationships
ch. 10 Demystifying the promotion and tenure process
ch. 11 Developing productive researchers and effective teachers
ch. 12 Monitoring service obligations
ch. 13 Explaining evaluation procedures
Hiring new tenure-track faculty and seeing them through to tenure is an onerous responsibility for department chairs, with significant departmental and institutional consequences.
The Department Chair's Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars is designed to help chairs with the three critical stages of junior faculty socialization: 1) recruitment and hiring; 2) the first year; and 3) evaluating new faculty performance. The authors offer concrete advice and activities; make extensive use of real-life situations; and provide generic examples of letters, checklists, and orientations that can be adapted to individual contexts.
This book provides the tools chairs need to adapt habit and intuition into effective management practices. The advice will help department chairs achieve the mission and objective of their own units, as well as their colleges and campuses. (From the Publisher)
The Department Chair's Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars is designed to help chairs with the three critical stages of junior faculty socialization: 1) recruitment and hiring; 2) the first year; and 3) evaluating new faculty performance. The authors offer concrete advice and activities; make extensive use of real-life situations; and provide generic examples of letters, checklists, and orientations that can be adapted to individual contexts.
This book provides the tools chairs need to adapt habit and intuition into effective management practices. The advice will help department chairs achieve the mission and objective of their own units, as well as their colleges and campuses. (From the Publisher)