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Department Chair Services Workshops Conflict Management Online Resource Center The Chair as Leader The Chair and Faculty How do I find the faculty that my department needs? How can I support the development of my department’s full-time faculty? How can I support the development of my department’s adjunct faculty? How can I evaluate my department’s faculty? How do I build a high-quality department? Special Topics References Resource Management Legal Issues What's New Announcements Search Chair Site: The Chair and Faculty Special Topics Gender Issues Hult, Christine. How's the Climate on Your Campus? Academic Leader 21(4) (April 2005): 1, 6. For more information, please contact Magna Publications, Inc. Hult reports the results of an NSF-ADVANCE-supported review of Utah State University's gender-differentiated study on faculty satisfaction. Posted 7/21/05   Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/faculty/reports/overview.html This web site contains MIT's 2002 report on the status of women faculty at the university. Posted 7/20/05 University of Michigan's Center for the Education of Women http://www.cew.umich.edu/research/index.htm This clearinghouse for research on women has a section on higher education that includes resources for chairs and deans. Posted 5/9/08 Internationalizing Departments Internationalization is hardly a new topic at campuses in the United States. What this section seeks to explore is recent institutional initiatives as well as how, in some cases, departments are initiating global links.   Materna, Linda. Internationalizing a University for a 21st Century (60KB; PDF). Written specifically for the ACE Department Chair Online Resource Center, 2007. Rider University is undertaking the ambitious process of internationalizing its university. This article charts the first steps in such a process, which aims to link efforts at a variety of administrative levels with existing departmental efforts in order to produce an institution-wide coherent approach to creating a globally aware campus. Posted 8/30/07   Schubert-Irastorza, Cynthia. Building Faculty Cohesion Through Participation in Global Education (60KB; PDF). Written specifically for the ACE Department Chair Online Resource Center, 2008. This article spans both internationalizing a curriculum and developing faculty. The opportunity to connect these goals emerged from the faculty of National University's School of Education as they worked on supporting general university goals. Posted 3/25/08