Chairs
Chairs of academic units play a key role in advancing the quality of teaching, scholarship and service engagement at Bates. These colleagues are responsible for the normal operations of their academic units, as well as setting the agenda for the unit. They also represent their academic units to the administration and the college and are expected to keep their unit informed of actions at the college. In academic units where there are co-chairs or associate chairs, there should be an agreement around the division of these duties.
Responsibilities of Department and Program Chairs
Chairs Responsibilities: Serving as a department or program chair includes administrative responsibilities in six broad areas.
Faculty Positions and Resources
Allocation of Faculty Resources: The forms and processes for requesting resources, submitting proposals, and submitting 3-year plans as well as the teaching-planning tool (TPT) are available here. The link above includes information on line requests, lectureship requests and renewals, requests for course reductions, requests for course replacements, and requests for additional courses.
Hiring
Faculty hiring resource with all the information you need to make a hire once resources have been allocated your program or department.
Personnel
The tenure and promotion process. Key information about personnel decisions.
Data
In collaboration with the Registrar, we provide a page to help you gain access to data about your program or department.
Department and Program Review
Bates College conducts once-per-decade reviews of all departments and interdisciplinary programs to assess their contributions to the college’s mission.
Curriculum
As chair, you may need information regarding how to maintain and update aspects of your curriculum. This page has resources on that.