The Department Chair's Role In Developing New Faculty Into Teachers And Scholars (anker Resources For Department Chairs)

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.

With the ranks of new incoming faculty likely to swell in coming years, hiring new tenure-track instructors and seeing them through to tenure is a department chair's responsibility that carries 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 new faculty socialization:

"Recruitment and Hiring," including organizing the search, negotiating the job offer, providing information, fielding professional/institutional questions, and planning an effective orientation "Developing Faculty in the First Year," including orienting new faculty to teaching, addressing service concerns, developing full-year orientation programs, and creating mentoring relationships "Evaluating New Faculty Performance" by demystifying the promotion and tenure process, developing productive researchers and effective teachers, monitoring service obligations, and explaining evaluation procedures

The authors offer concrete advice and activities; model real-life situations; and provide 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 authors' advice will help new faculty succeed in their goals of teaching, research, and service and their new institutions, while ensuring department chairs achieve the mission and objective of their own units and the campus and college as a whole.