Trends and Issues for Chairs: An Eight‐Year Study

Trouble and Strife: Preventing Bullying and Mobbing in Academe

“…In an ongoing national survey of more than five hundred chairs, Cipriano and Riccardi (2015) investigated the pervasiveness of incivility and lack of collegiality in US colleges. Their question “Have you ever had an uncivil or noncollegial faculty member in your department?” was answered in the affirmative by 83.3 percent of the respondents.…”

“…Their question “Have you ever had an uncivil or noncollegial faculty member in your department?” was answered in the affirmative by 83.3 percent of the respondents. From 2010 to 2014, the survey also included the question: “Should collegiality be the fourth criterion for tenure and personnel decisions?” Seventy‐two percent of all chairs responding to this question agreed that collegiality should be taken into account, and each year the study was conducted, more people responded in the affirmative (Cipriano and Riccardi 2015).…”

Satisfying Aspects of Serving as Chair, Part 1: Concrete Benefits

“…Is chair life only a series of problems and difficult tasks for which they are underprepared to deal with? If so, it would be difficult to understand why greater than 80 percent of chairs, when surveyed, indicate that they are satisfied or highly satisfied with being a chair (Cipriano and Riccardi 2015). It has also been reported that department chairs are the best-positioned administrators to lead change, yet they are the least prepared (Gmelch et al 2017).…”