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ment to your teaching or research. Stories abound of department heads neglecting thenuts and bolts of administration to concentrate on their own scholarship. Balance isthe watchword.Not everything we talked about at our panel will apply in every institutional context.Practices and campus cultures vary but the issues I summarized here are those everychair will face on a daily basis. The job of department head may well be the toughestin the university but you can make the job considerably harder by ignoring this goodadvice.To read his previous columns, see http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/heads_up. This essayfirst appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Careers section and the Chroniclegranted reprint permission to <strong>Feedback</strong>.

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