Promoting Departmental Leadership: A Series for Academic Chairs
Offered by Academic Affairs, Duquesne University
Academic departmental leadership is crucial to the success of Duquesne at every level from institutional reputation and strength to individual faculty and student success. We seek to support our chairs in the following ways:
- build community across Duquesne by addressing the needs of new and experienced chairs, and by bringing them together to learn from and support one another
- communicate expectations for Duquesne department chairs
- explore best practices in departmental leadership in higher education
- respond to requests for training and materials
- encourage chairs to attend national institutes on academic leadership so that they can bring ideas back to the group and be refreshed in their own leadership
Academic Year 2011/2012: Building Strong Departments
Engaging and Supporting Mid-Career Faculty
Thursday, January 26, 10-11:30 a.m. - 610 Union
Friday, January 27, 10-11:30 a.m. - Union Gallery
Discussion Leader: Laurel Willingham-McLain, Center for Teaching Excellence
Department chairs are invited to bring to this discussion:
a. ideas that have worked, and;
b. concerns they face in supporting mid-career faculty.
Laurel Willingham-McLain will summarize the findings from a recent survey of Duquesne chairs and will outline strategies from academic leadership literature.
Lessons Learned from the Self-Study: facilitators William Adams, Daniel Burston and Magali Michael
Monday, November 7, 2-3:30 p.m. - 607 Union
This workshop will provide an opportunity for conversation with two departments that began their self-study process in fall, 2010.
Reflected Best Self Exercise: facilitators Nagaraj "Naga" Sivasubramaniam (School of Business) & Laurel Willingham-McLain (CTE)
Tuesday, November 1, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Spiritan Center, Bethel Park
Duquesne department chairs are invited to participate in a self-development process of leading from their strengths through a guided exercise of creating a “reflected best self” portrait to discover, live and lead from their very best selves.
For more information, please contact Laurel Willingham-McLain at willingham@duq.edu or Naga Sivasubramaniam at sivasubr@duq.edu.
Promotion & tenure: Question and answer session with Provost Ralph Pearson
Tuesday, September 27, 10-11:15 a.m. - 203 Union
This informal session will provide an opportunity for department chairs to ask questions about the promotion and tenure process. Background reading: Duquesne Faculty Handbook, Appendices A & B. In addition to answering questions chairs may have about handbook policies, Provost Pearson can discuss the rationale for policies, recent trends, and successful practices that he has observed in P&T at Duquesne.
To learn more contact Dr. Alexandra Gregory, Associate Provost, gregorya@duq.edu or Melanie Simile, similem@duq.edu, x4525
