The Impact of COVID-19 on Academic Department Chairs: Heightened Complexity, Accentuated Liminality, and Competing Perceptions of Reinvention.
| Autor: | Gigliotti RA; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Innovative higher education [Innov High Educ] 2021; Vol. 46 (4), pp. 429-444. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 12. |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10755-021-09545-x |
| Abstrakt: | This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic department chairs. Through a survey of 172 department chairs in the United States, the central findings of this research-intensified challenges, a multidirectional leadership pivot, and competing perceptions of higher education reinvention-reinforce the liminality of the academic chairperson role, highlight the need for increased training and development opportunities for individuals engaged in this work, and offer a reminder of ensuring that the broader perspectives of department chairs are included in efforts to reinvent institutions of higher education. These findings depict crisis leadership as a required competency for academic leaders. Competing Interests: Conflicts of Interest/Competing InterestsNot applicable. (© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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