Moving into the Chair Role
“Swivel” Chairs (Faculty vs. Chair roles) (p. 129ff): (also, Chu, p. 13)
| Role | Faculty member | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Focused effort | Focused: Block time to prepare for classes, write, etc | Fragmented: Brevity, variety, fragmentation |
| Discipline orientation | Professing: Faculty enter the classroom to profess and disseminate information | Persuading: Success of chairs depends on the ability to profess less and to practice the arts of persuasion and compromise |
| Faculty autonomy | Autonomy: Enjoy control over their time and feeling of autonomy of activity and movement in their academies | Accountability: Lose some of that autonomy; accountable to mandates from central administration, as well as demands from faculty who expect to find faculty in their offices when they need them. |
| Creation of knowledge | Manuscript: Long periods in which to prepare ms before they see it in print | Memo: Answer to numerous publics - students, faculty, administrators, parents, public agencies, and other administrators |
| Customer service | Client: At the receiving end of service | Custodian: Become custodians and dispensers of services |