Resources on Leadership
Below are a selection of topics related to administrative leadership with accompanying resources that complement the content in the New Heads Seminars and other leadership programs such as the Academic Leadership Institute.
These resources include selected links to Building Strong Geosciences Departments, the best single set of online resources for developing a strong department and part of the broader On the Cutting Edge website, an NSF-funded collection of materials on teaching, research, and career management. Most of these resources are broadly applicable to varied disciplines.
- Annual Performance Reviews of Faculty
- Finding the Coaching in Criticism
- Important Employment Policies for faculty, staff, graduate students, and student employees
- Policies on Annual Reviews of Staff in the Classified Staff Human Resources Manual
- Policies on Annual Reviews for Academic Professionals and Service Professionals in the University Handbook for Appointed Professionals
- Promotion, Tenure and Continuing Status Reviews Resources and Policies
- Why Give Ongoing Feedback and Coaching?
- Grievance Policies and Procedures for Faculty in Article VII of the General Faculty Bylaws
- Grievance Clearinghouse Committee
- HR Consulting Services
- Office of Institutional Equity
- UA Policy on Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment, with online training for all employees, including department heads and faculty
- The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
- Workplace Conflict Resolution: 10 ways to manage employee conflict and improve office communication, the workplace environment and team productivity
- University Handbook for Appointed Professionals (UHAP) Grievance Policies
- Responsibility-Centered Management and related FAQs
- UA Life Work Connections, with links on Family Medical Leave and other HR resources
- UA Benefits Options, links to information on all UA benefits
- Administrative Leadership (a review of scholarship on leadership as a collaborative process)
- First Things First: The Urgency Addiction
- How Department Heads Can Be Transformative Leaders
- The Resilient Leader
- Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (questionnaire for assessing how you respond to conflicts)
- Women and Academic Leadership: Leaning Out
- Cultivating the Next Generation of Academic Leaders
- Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Build Collaboration, Productivity
- Our Leader Left. Who’s Left to Lead?
- Quick Learning Resources website helps investigators identify colleagues with specific expertise, both across UA and at other institutions, for potential collaboration and proposal development
- Research Development Services in the Office of Research and Discovery (ORD)
- Seven Steps for Becoming a More Productive Writer
- Translational Leadership: New Approaches to Team Development
- Active Learning Strategies in Face to Face Classrooms
- Assessment at the UA includes related Resources
- Back in the Classroom: Colleges are calling off the deals that allowed many professors time out from teaching
- On the Cutting Edge includes the first two links below and other related resources
- Student Recruitment
- Teaching Resources
- UA Office of Instruction and Assessment
- University Fees
- What makes a Strong Program Design?