October 19, 2001

Can Department Heads Be Trained to Succeed?

By PIPER FOGG

More colleges are offering orientation programs for new chairmen

Every morning, when Ronald E. Rice wakes up, he asks himself, "Who am I going to disappoint today?"

Mr. Rice is chairman of one of 150 academic departments on Rutgers University's three campuses. Mr. Rice, who has been a member of the Rutgers faculty for 12 years, is starting his second year at the helm of the communications department here on the main campus. The trouble with being a chairman, says Mr. Rice, is

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