Seeking an Administrative Job

In academe, we’re uncomfortable talking about how to gain influence, yet we spend much of our career learning the hard way that we can’t be very effective without it, argue Marie A. Cini and Craig Weidemann.

Frederick A. Winter describes his own experience rebounding from a job layoff and shares some of the lessons he learned.

Tom Rocklin identifies three conditions for successfully leading change on your campus.

Dysfunctional departments don’t serve students, faculty members or the institution well, writes Ellen de Graffenreid, who gives some pointers on how to make sure yours isn’t one of them.

Retiring senior administrator Tom Rocklin lists the six key things he knows now that he would have liked to have known when just starting out.

Whether you manage one person or several hundred, you’ll be confronted with the issue of what to tell employees when things go awry, writes Ellen de Graffenreid.

When you compete for a different job on your own campus and lose out, how do you respond to such a setback? Judith S. White offers advice.

Peter Eckel describes the often typical shortcomings of cabinets -- and how to avoid them.