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Selection of Department Chair

Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography

Selection of Department Chair


Job Description/Duties of Chair


  1. Serve and represent the faculty of the Department of Physics. Most importantly acting as an arbitrator toward departmental consensus on important issues, and carrying out departmental policy.


  1. Represent the Department of Physics to the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and the University as a whole.


  1. Direct departmental decisions regarding Degree Programs to benefit the students majoring in Physics.


  1. Preparation of class schedules.


  1. Serve as arbitrator between students and faculty.


  1. Evaluation of the faculty of the Department of Physics.


  1. Hire and supervise SPA staff in the department.


  1. Monitor the budget and approve all expenditures.


  1. Preparation of reports to administrative offices.

Selection Process for Recommendation to the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences*


  1. In the fall semester of the terminal year of the current chair's tenure it will be made known to all faculty that a new chair will be chosen.


  1. A candidate for the new Chair must be a tenured member of the department at least at the rank of associate professor.


  1. The term will be for three years, and previous chairs may be considered for the new term.


  1. The Department will elect a tenured faculty who is not a candidate for chair to arbitrate the process.


  1. A date will be set for a departmental meeting in which each candidate will be given the opportunity to verbalize views on the position of chair and to answer questions from the faculty.


  1. At least four days previous to the above meeting each candidate will transmit to the each faculty of the Department of Physics a written statement of his/her approach to the Chair position. This statement will be one page or less.


  1. The faculty will re-convene at a date set at the end of the meeting discussed in 5) above to submit secret ballots in sealed departmental envelopes which will be counted by the arbitrator. Absentee ballots may be submitted.


  1. A majority of votes will determine the recommendation for the new Chair. The results of the process will then be forwarded to the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences for consideration.


* In cases where an explicit search outside The Department is not made.


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