ACE maintains a resource center for department chairs that includes links to material that addresses such topics as chair as leader, chair and faculty, resource management, and legal issues.

This site contains several links to resources directly related to department chair leadership issues.

This is an essay published in the Quarterly Newsletter for the National Academy for Academic Leadership (Vol. 1, 1, March 2000).

This article summarizes an interview with Dr. Max Carbon, Professor Emeritus & retired Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This article deals with the differences in faculty and administrative perspectives on academic leadership and identifies the challenges of defining academic leadership.

This site is an article in the AAHEBulletin.com, a publication of the American Association for Higher Education, and provides specific suggestions for diversity recruitment.

This site is the Conflict Management in Higher Education Report (Vol. 5, #1, Sept 2004) and identifies several electronic articles to help chairs deal with departmental conflict.