"Published in partnership with the American Council on Education." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Academic leadership for associate deans: a case study approach and this book as a toolkit -- Are you ready to visit the dark side: becoming an associate dean -- Stepping up to leadership with your head and your heart -- Working with the realities of your dean's leadership and management style -- Changing behavior in an atmosphere of no accountability -- Something old, something new: working with department chairs and the faculty as an associate dean -- Communicating effectively: say what you mean and mean what you say -- Dealing with conflict between and within units -- Trouble in paradise: dealing with departmental dysfunction acting as a caretaker of a stable unit -- The inmates are running the asylum: getting hostile and unproductive faculty and staff on board -- I know your parents think you are brilliant but you still have to follow the rules: working with students in an atmosphere of entitlement -- Call me when the fire trucks have left: defining and responding to crisis -- Meet and greet: making connections outside your school -- Adapting to change while keeping your sense of humor -- Burning from both ends: drawing boundaries and defending balance -- Moving on: life after being an associate dean -- Lessons learned: distillation of principles of leading from the middle.
Series:
American Council on Education, series on higher education
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