{"id":88656,"date":"2023-09-13T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=88656"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:55:31","slug":"ask-the-chair-are-great-chairs-born-or-made-dettmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/09\/13\/ask-the-chair-are-great-chairs-born-or-made-dettmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Chair: Are Great Chairs Born or Made? [Dettmar]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/ask-the-chair-are-great-chairs-born-or-made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ask the Chair: Are Great Chairs Born or Made?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Kevin Dettmar <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(behind a paywall)<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Higher education is finally getting serious about training new department heads.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Great chairs aren\u2019t born, but made; \u201ctrial and error\u201d isn\u2019t actually a professional-development strategy. The provost and deans should recognize that a confident and competent chair makes their job easier, creates a well-functioning department, and buoys faculty, student, and staff morale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As someone vitally engaged with the chair\u2019s role, I do think we are experiencing a sea-change when it comes to how institutions are preparing chairs. For too long, colleges have treated the position as simply a minor cog in the chain of command. But more and more institutions are now investing in their chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the Chair: Are Great Chairs Born or Made? &#8212; from chronicle.com by Kevin Dettmar (behind a paywall) Higher education is finally getting serious about training new department heads. Great chairs aren\u2019t born, but made; \u201ctrial and error\u201d isn\u2019t actually a professional-development strategy. The provost and deans should recognize that a confident and competent chair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,174,115,302,71,3,74,196,269,191,855,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-professional-development","category-quality","category-skills","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88658,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88656\/revisions\/88658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}