The Department Chair:New Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges

This monograph explores the changing role of the academic department chair in the areas of leadership, influence, and faculty development. The paper uses research insights to explore the situation of an academic chair who is squeezed between the demands of upper administration and the expectations of faculty, staff, and students. Studies of the roles and responsibilities of chairs consistently show that the role is ambiguous, unclear in authority,and difficult to classify as faculty or administrator. The tradition of faculty ownership dictates that chair leadership must emphasize empowering activities. The most effective use of political influence and power understands the political forces and processes of the institution and maneuvers groups and coalitions to achieve the autonomy and control necessary to a strong department. Faculty evaluation provides a chair with a powerful opportunity for developing quality. In addition, the chair must recognize how institutional type, history, and culture, model of governance, and discipline can influence what is expected. In the coming years chairs will need a program of professional development on many fronts to acquire the skills to address the complex challenges they will face. (Contains over 200 references.

1992 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials for 1992

2002 Meeting Minutes

Staff Congress meeting minutes for 2002

1990 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Faculty Senate meeting minutes of Morehead State University for 1990

2001-2002 Records

Records and supplementary materials from the Student Government Association of Morehead State University from the Spring Semester of 2001 to the Spring Semester of 2002

CES-530 - ROS based Multi-sensor Navigation System for a Commercial Wheelchair

This report describes an intelligent electric powered wheelchair developed in University of Essex, under the financial support from two EU Research Projects SYSIASS and COALAS. The development of this wheelchair covers a wide range of research activities from multi-modal Human-Machine Interfacing to autonomous navigation. This user manual provides an overview and guidelines to use the wheelchair with autonomous navigation functions. It includes three sections: overview of Hardware parts, overview to Software and a Tutorial that helps the user step-by-step to activate and run the wheelchair without the need of supervision

2008 Meeting Minutes

Staff Congress meeting minutes for 2008

Minutes 2013-2014

The records of the Administrative Staff Council (UA-022) are available in print in the Center for Archival Collections