David Evans is the former president of the now-closed Southern Vermont College, and is now president of American University in Bulgaria.
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Don’t just spew out an unranked list of requests; ask for the really key things that are essential for you to take the job.
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If you are waiting to play “gotcha” with your students, don’t be surprised if they’re waiting to get you, too, David Evans says.
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It can enhance good leadership qualities and skills, but if an administrator doesn’t have them in the first place, no amount of training is going to fix the problem.
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David Evans explains why training, by itself, won’t prepare you for a role in academic leadership.
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There is a tremendous difference between being a chair who will return to the faculty in a couple of years and being a chair who is effectively in place permanently, David Evans writes.
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David Evans discusses the roles of academic administrators in faculty hiring.
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A senior administrator recalls the lessons he learned the first time he led a department.
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When I was a new faculty member, institutional operations seemed simple, David Evans writes. But the further I rose and the more I learned, the less simple they proved to be.
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A shortage of rental property in the rural Midwest is the flip side of unaffordably high prices in large cities, David Evans says, and it’s affecting hiring at some universities.
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Department leaders play a key role in supporting and carrying out an institution’s mission, David Evans writes, so it’s crucial for them to understand higher-education issues and trends.