The Department Chair as Academic Leader

This important new work will help department chairs, faculty, and administrators understand and address the increasing complexity of relationships within higher education, as well as the growing influence of external factors. The Department Chair as Academic Leader is a completely updated revision of Allan Tucker's seminal contribution, Chairing the Academic Department, last published in 1992. This work reflects the approach used in the ACE Workshops for Division and Department Chairs and Deans.

IRENE W. D. HECHT, senior associate, American Council on Education (ACE), is director of ACEs national programs for department/division chairs and deans.MARY LOU HIGGERSON is a professor in the department of speech communication at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL.WALTER H. GMELCH is dean of the College of Education at Iowa State University in Ames, IA.The late Allan Tucker was director, Institute for Academic Leadership, and professor of higher education, Florida State University, Tallahassee.