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Leadership in Place

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Content Inside: Department Chair Online Resource Center Leadership in Place Jon L. Wergin. "Leadership in Place." The Department Chair 14(4) (Spring 2004): 1-3. Reprinted with permission from Anker Publishing Inc. Since 1994 I've been studying the worklife of faculty members in academic departments. Probably to no one else's surprise but my own I've discovered that faculty work is filled with paradoxes. I've wondered how those who pine for academic community can find it so difficult to engage in genuine collaboration with members of their own department. I've puzzled over how often faculty members appear content to let others worry about assuring academic quality in curricular matters even while arguing that the responsibility for making curricular decisions is one of the most cherished values in academe. It's occurred to me that these paradoxes have a common theme. Faculty culture especially in large institutions has become so specialized so atomized that faculty members feel responsible only for the quality of their own teaching and research leaving to others the responsibility for the curriculum and for the academic program as a whole. This retreat into academic specialization and away from what Bill Massy calls quality work-that is work that is done to enhance academic quality on behalf of the common good-has to my mind been one of the major reasons why legislatures and governing boards have become so skeptical about the value of what faculty do. To be blunt it's a failure of faculty leadership. Faculty don't see themselves as leaders anymore unless they aspire to a leadership position such as dean or department chair. Many chairs in fact cringe at the thought of having to "lead" their peers. And so the academic culture has devolved into two groups: true academics who focus virtually all of their intellectual energy on their teaching and research agendas considering service to the institution as largely volunteer work and administrators who ...

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