September 26, 2003

Learning to Be a Department Head

By DENNIS BARON

Orientation for new administrators involves reams of handouts you'll never read, jargon you'll learn to speak, and go-to people you'll need to know to survive

I have just finished a six-year term as head of the English department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and I am ready to recollect that experience in the tranquility called research leave.

Over the past two years I've written for Career Network about academic hiring and promotion and tenure from an

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