From creating institutional change to supporting students and colleagues, becoming a department chair presents many exciting opportunities. However, this transition can be challenging as department chairs take on new responsibilities, expand their skill sets, manage budgets, and navigate organizational policies and politics. In this session, a panel of current and prior department chairs will share their insight, identify relevant resources, and offer advice.
NOTE: an NCFDD membership is required to participate in this event. To register:
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ACTIVATE your Columbia-sponsored membership
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REGISTER on the NCFDD website
Columbia University is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized independent organization dedicated to supporting faculty, particularly under-represented faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in making successful transitions throughout their careers.
About the panelists:
Joy Gaston Gayles, Ph.D., is professor of higher education and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. Dr. Gayles' research focuses on attracting and retaining women and underrepresented people of color STEM fields. She also has established an international reputation for her research on intercollegiate athletics in higher education and the student-athlete experience. She has published more than 40 refereed articles and book chapters on issues of diversity and equity on college campuses and has more than 60 national conference presentations to her credit. Dr. Gayles participated in NCFDD's Faculty Success Program in 2014 and now serves as a faculty success coach. She has coached over 100 faculty participants through the FSP program.
Julie Artis is a Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research and writing focus on motherhood, law, and child well-being. Formerly the chair of the sociology department, she's currently working in a university wide administrative role.
Kimberly Blockett is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. Her area of specialization is 19th-century African American literature, especially women writers, literary and religious history, and trans-Atlantic studies. She has a monograph forthcoming with Duke UP (2023) and a scholarly edition published with West Virginia UP (2021). She has earned many awards including the Women’s Studies Research Fellowship at Harvard Divinity School and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
