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Download full textGillet-Karam, Rosemary, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1999
This issue focuses on preparing department chairs for their leadership roles. It presents qualities that experienced chairs cite as being crucial to success, and asserts the need to develop formal training programs for people newly appointed to these positions. Articles include: (1) "Midlevel Management in the Community College: A Rose Garden?"…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Community Colleges, Department Heads, Leadership Qualities
Booth, David B. – 1982
The role of the department chair as the interface between faculty and administration is considered, along with the selection, orientation, socialization, and evaluation of the chair. Attention is directed to constraints under which chairs work that are beyond their control and the way that the resulting conflict, overload, and ambiguity impede…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, College Administration
Austin, Ann E.; Gamson, Zelda F. – 1983
Pressures that have negatively affected the work environments of colleges are identified, and research concerning the work experience of faculty and administrators is reviewed. The effect of the extrinsic and intrinsic elements on faculty members' work is considered, including their power and autonomy, their relationships to the institution, and…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Environment, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship
