The Academic Department Chairs Success Series is designed to support academic department chairs/ directors by providing opportunities to enhance their leadership and management effectiveness. Each fall and spring semester chairs will have the opportunity to explore topics related to their role and discuss effective ways to lead at the departmental level at the University of New Orleans. The sessions’ focused-discussion format is intended to encourage sharing of ideas, insights, experiences as well as foster collaboration, creative synergy and success.
Developed and offered by The Office of Faculty Affairs, The Academic Department Chairs Success Series is intended to complement the work of the Academic Chairs Council.
Possible topics include:
- Reducing faculty stress, burnout and apathy
- Creating a healthy department culture
- Engaging in difficult conversations
- Making Connections: Caring, and Title IX
- Dealing with conflict
- Leading change
- Working with external stakeholders
- Self-care
For more information, contact the Office of Faculty Affairs facultyaffairs@uno.edu.
Events
NCFDD - From the Chair’s Perspective: Insights on Academic Leadership
From the Chair’s Perspective: Insights on Academic Leadership, consists of four webinars that provide an insider’s view of the realities of being an academic chair.ÌýÌýThis series provides an insider’s look at the realities of serving as a university department chair. Over four sessions, veteran chairs will share their experiences and perspectives on this uniquely vital leadership role. Participation is free with É«É«Ñо¿Ëù's institutional membership to NCFDD. Activate your NCFDD account with your É«É«Ñо¿Ëù email (details available here). Then visitÌý to sign up for the webinars.
- Wednesday, September 18:ÌýIt’s All About the RelationshipsÌý(12-1:30pm CDT)
- Wednesday, September 25, You’re the Boss and Other Myths about Being ChairÌý(12-1:30pm CDT)
- Wednesday, October 2, Little Fires EverywhereÌý(12-1:30pm CDT)
- Wednesday, October 9, Live Q&AÌý(12-2 CDT)
Panel Discussion |ÌýWhat I Wish I Would Have Known: Transitioning to Department Chair
NCFDD Webinar followed by É«É«Ñо¿Ëù Discussion via Zoom
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
1:00pm – 2:30pm
From creating institutional change to supporting students and colleagues, becoming a department chair presents many exciting opportunities. However, this transition can be challenging as department chairs take on new responsibilities, expand their skill sets, manage budgets, and navigate organizational policies and politics. In this session, a panel of current and prior department chairs will share their insight, identify relevant resources, and offer advice.
Panelists
- Joy Gaston Gayles, Ph.D., is professor of higher education and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University.
- Julie Artis is a Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago.
- Kimberly Blockett is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware
Step 1:
- Visit to register for the webinar. ÌýYou will need to have an active NCFDD membership to register. ÌýIf you have not yet activated your free NCFDD membership, follow the instructions that pop up when you try to register or visit this page for more information.
Step 2:
- Join your fellow É«É«Ñо¿Ëù chairs on Zoom immediately after the webinar (from 2:00-2:30pm) for a follow-up discussion relating ideas presented in the webinar to your role as Department Chair at É«É«Ñо¿Ëù.Ìý Please RSVP to the Office of Faculty Affairs at facultyaffairs@uno.edu. Ìý
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