So, You Think You Want to Be a Department Chair?!

鈥淚 wasn鈥檛 trained for this!鈥 鈥 What are core skills for department chairs and how can you prepare yourself for taking on a leadership role in your department
 
Start here:
 

Management 鈥 Budget, Scheduling, Reviews & more

  • Budgeting and finances workshop (from October 2024)
  • Data Dashboard workshop and (from November 2024)

Interpersonal 鈥 working with students, faculty and staff

Staff 鈥 麻豆社 Human Resources Coaching for Performance
Faculty 鈥 (lecturer faculty contract)
Faculty - (tenure-track faculty contract)
Faculty 鈥 Promotion & Tenure (Office of the Provost site)
All 鈥 Reporting obligations (CREO office video)
 
Resources

  • (especially the 鈥楢sk the Chair鈥 columns)
  • Kevin Dettmar (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)
  • (especially 鈥楢dvancing as an Administrator鈥 or 鈥楽eeking an Administrative Job鈥)
  • HER Institute
  • Your discipline may have opportunities, for example:
    • Modern Languages Association (English, World Languages)
    • American Chemistry Society

Contact info

  • Reach out to E3 to be connected with a leadership faculty fellow to talk about planning for taking on leadership role in your department or college (unh.e3@unh.edu).