Perspectives on and a Template for Training Future Chairs

Abstract

We present an outline for a year-long training session for potential departmental leaders. This outline is based on training led by the author over one academic year. The training consists of nine sessions with an emphasis on active learning among the participants.

Keywords:

• Chair training
• succession planning

ORCID

B. L. Duncan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9294-7573

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B. L. Duncan

B. Duncan received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and for the last six years has found himself chair of the Department of Mathematics at North Dakota State University. In his spare time, he does word games, crossword puzzles, reads novels, and helps with taking care of his four children, but mostly the three who are still living at home.