During the summer, two of my best friends and former colleagues asked me for guidance about making the transition from professor to administrator. Both had just been named directors of major academic programs at large public universities.
I made that transition myself in 2003 when I was appointed director of the journalism school at Iowa State University. No one prepares you for the position of department chair or director—arguably one of the most difficult jobs in academe because it requires you to navigate between the dean's dictums and the faculty's demands. Upon hearing the news of my friends' appointments, I pondered what I had learned as an administrator over the past seven years and came up with the following "rules," most of them adopted through trial and error.
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Author: Michael J. Bugeja
