Lessons From a Recovering Department Chair

Academic department chairs are usually pulled from successful faculty roles only to enter a world of mid-level management and leadership roles rarely anticipated when initiating one's career. Fortunately, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy provides opportunities for professional development related to some of the skills required of department chairs. [...]you will fail in your primary role to help colleagues be successful. 5. Academia is littered with the bodies of faculty members who discovered only when applying for promotion that their performance was not satisfactory, and only slightly fewer bodies of department chairs who were asked to explain why repeated annual reviews painted an unrealistic rosy picture. 9.