Duties and Responsibilities:
The Chairperson will provide dynamic and innovative leadership for faculty, staff and students of SCOM.
The Chairperson will provide dynamic and innovative leadership for faculty, staff and students of SCOM.
- Responsibilities of the position include teaching two courses each semester;
- Conducting searches for full time faculty as positions may become available;
- Making recommendations for hiring, tenure and promotion;
- Evaluating the performances of faculty and staff;
- Recruiting, recommending the hiring adjunct instructors as may be needed and evaluating their performances;
- Developing the schedule of classes for each academic session in concert with the Associate Dean for Administration, the other department chairs and the Director of Graduate Studies;
- Recruiting students for SCOM and for SGJC;
- Encouraging faculty research;
- Professional activity and professional development and preparing the reports required by SGJC or by the University.
An important responsibility of the Chairperson will be to ensure appropriate oversight of The Strategy Shop, an in-house, student-staffed, faculty-supervised strategic communications agency. The Chairperson will also manage the process of sustaining a PRSSA chapter.