The department-chair role has a longstanding reputation as a position that nobody wants — the old joke is that any tenured professor who shows up late to a faculty meeting runs the risk of being ...

Department Chairs fall into the following categories. The term "Split" indicates chairs who hold a partial chair appointment AND a partial academic year, instructional appointment. Department chair ...

A running joke with my department chairs, when I was a dean, involved the awarding of merit badges for the accomplishment of a particularly thorny task that the outside world (outside of academia, ...