Role Of the Chair

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B - 1 The Role of the Department Chair The Role of the Department Chair Many chairs are not prepared for the role shift from individual faculty member to department chair. John Bennett (1983)1 identified three major transitions that new chairs experience. 1. Moving from being a specialist to functioning as a generalist. A new chair must quickly acquire a grasp of the entire department and all its offerings. The new chair is responsible for understanding all the specializations, as well as a new range of duties that faculty members never have to perform.

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