Faculty Focus Special Report Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator

An Essential Toolkit for New Academic Administrators

Inadequate preparation, unrealistic expectations, and increased workload can create undue stress on faculty members making the transition to department chair or other levels of administration. All too often new administrators are left to fend for themselves when it comes to discovering and developing the skills they need to succeed in their new position.


Making the leap from faculty to administration will never be easy, but this report will help new administrators navigate the potential minefields and find their voice when it comes to leading effectively.

Remember how you felt during your first semester of teaching? Excited? Nervous? A little over-whelmed? At times you even might have wondered how the school could give you a job with so much responsibility and so little training.


Now you’re a seasoned educator making the move from faculty to administration. And guess what? You’re excited, nervous, and a little overwhelmed. And, once again, you wonder how the school could give you a job with so much responsibility and so little training.

Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator will get you on the right track for long-term success.

Here are some of the articles you will find in Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator:


Look Before You Leap: Transitions from Faculty to Administration
It Seems Like Only Yesterday … The Challenges Face by Recently Appointed Administrators
Translating Teaching Skills to Leadership Roles
The First 1,000 Steps: Walking the Road from Academic to Administrator
Why New Department Chairs Need Coaching
10 Recommendations toward Effective Leadership
A Practitioner Model for Ethical Leadership
Look Before You Leap: Transitions from Faculty to Administration

This report will help new administrators find their way, while shedding new light on leadership styles, myths and responsibilities. It also may remind experienced leaders what it was like that first year in hopes that they might reach out to help make someone else’s transition a little easier.

Faculty Focus is packed with innovative ideas, best practices, and other information you can use right away on the topics that impact your students, your school and your work, including:


Teaching and Learning
Instructional Design
Faculty Development
Distance Learning
Classroom Management
Educational Assessment
Teaching Strategies
Faculty Evaluation
Learning Styles
Curriculum Development
Community College Issues
Trends in Higher Education
And much, much more.

Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator is the perfect example of the free, high-value we offer on Faculty Focus.

Faculty Focus Special Report Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator