The Strategic Department Chair
Chapman & Hall/CRC (Verlag)
978-1-032-94015-1 (ISBN)
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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.
Dr. Lisa Chasan-Taber is a Professor of Epidemiology and the former Associate Dean for Research at the School of Public Health & Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Chasan-Taber has had a history of continual funding from NIH and national foundations throughout her research career. She has been a standing member on National Institutes of Health (NIH) review panels, a mentor on NIH Research Career Development Awards, and the Principal Investigator of mentoring grants designed to provide early-career faculty with successful grant-writing strategies. For more than 20 years, she has taught a class on grant proposal writing for graduate students which formed the basis for this textbook. Dr. Chasan-Taber has been recognized for her research through the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest recognition bestowed to faculty by the university. Dr. Chasan-Taber received her post-doctoral and doctoral training in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
1. 10 Top Tips for Chairing for Research Success. 2. Stepping up to Chair. 3. Strategies for Recruitment of Faculty with Research Potential. 4. Strategies for Onboarding New Assistant Professors. 5. Strategies to Advance Faculty Excellence in Research. 6. Strategies to Advance Faculty Success in Teaching. 7. Strategies to Advance Faculty Success in Service. 8. Facing Challenges: Assistant Professors without Success in Research. 9. Strategies for Departmental Infrastructure - Setting Up Faculty for Success. 10. Strategies for Crafting a Successful Tenure/Promotion Portfolio. 11. Strategies for Mid-career Mentoring: Retention and Promotion to Full Professor. 12. Strategies for Graduate Student Success (to Improve Faculty Research Success). 13. Strategies for Managing Up – Working Effectively with Your Dean.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.3.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 9 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-94015-8 / 1032940158 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-94015-1 / 9781032940151 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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