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Strengthening Your Department Chair Playbook: Spotlight on Faculty Development Strategies

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM –3:00 PM ET

As a department chair, you’re at the forefront of faculty success—but the challenges can be overwhelming. Whether you’re newly appointed or have been in the role for some time, the Department Chair Success Program (CSP) is designed to equip you with the tools, strategies, and peer support you need to lead with confidence and impact.

In this free 1-hour webinar, we’ll give you an overview of the CSP, a 10-week intensive course that brings chairs from all stages of their leadership journey together. You’ll engage in peer learning, access expert mentorship, and participate in hands-on exercises that are designed to improve your leadership skills and drive faculty success.

Why Attend?

  • Learn how CSP provides a structured framework for tackling complex leadership challenges.
  • Discover how peer learning and expert mentorship can accelerate your leadership growth.

Are you ready to lead with expanded productivity and confidence? Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how the Department Chair Success Program can support your professional development and strengthen your department.

Don’t miss out—register today!

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Facilitator:

Erin Furtak, PhD is Professor of STEM Education and Faculty Chair in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She studies how to broaden student participation in science learning by designing better classroom assessments that center students' interests and experiences with teachers, students, and families. She has held multiple leadership roles, including Associate Dean of Faculty, Director of STEM Teacher Education, and Program Area Chair. Dr. Furtak is a Certified Workshop Facilitator for NCFDD as well as a coach in the NCFDD's Faculty Success Program. Dr. Furtak loves being outdoors, is an avid runner, and has two kids and two rambunctious dogs. She is writing a memoir about her journey through chronic migraine toward a more balanced life.

Panelists:

Dr. Michael Ramirez (PhD in sociology from the University of Georgia) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of work, inequalities, and the life course. He has researched career pathways in the cultural production of music, constructions of masculinities in men’s movements, and Wikipedia as a space to decolonize the classroom. He is currently working on his second book project, which examines how ethnicity, social class, and the workplace influence men’s practices of fatherhood. He is also collaborating on a project on diversity and representation issues in the field of veterinary techs. Over the course of his career, he has developed a strong commitment to mentorship and advocacy for students and faculty alike. (Headshot)
 
Jennifer Kling is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for Legal Studies, and co-Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research focuses on social and political philosophy, particularly issues in war and peace, protest, feminism, and philosophy of race. She is the author of Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese Thought: Toward Globalizing Political Philosophy (with Colin J. Lewis, Oxford 2024), Can War Be Justified? A Debate (with Andrew Fiala, Routledge 2023), Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism (with Leland Harper, Lexington 2022), The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice without Going to War (with Megan Mitchell, Rowman & Littlefield 2021), War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility (Lexington 2019), and numerous articles in academic journals and edited collections. She is also the President (2024-2025) of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace.
 

M. Keith Claybrook, Jr., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and chair and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Africana Studies at CSU, Long Beach. His research areas include the Black Freedom Movement, Black Los Angeles, African Deep Thought, Black Intellectual Histories, and the discipline of Africana Studies. In addition, Claybrook is the author of Building the Basics: A Handbook for Pursuing Academic Excellence in Africana Studies which is now in its third edition. The handbook offers tips, tidbits, and suggestions for studying at home, African Deep Thought and critical thinking, critical reading and questioning, scholarly writing, working collaboratively in groups, and preparing for quizzes and exams. He also has a chapter entitled “African Deep Thought: An African Centered Approach to Critical Thinking” in the forthcoming book New Perspectives in Africana Studies. Claybrook is currently working on two books. The first is a co-authored book entitled Voices from the Black Freedom Movement in Los Angeles: 1955-75 and the second is a single authored book entitled Voices of Black Men in Compton,1970-1990. He is also a life-time member to the National Council of Black Studies (NCBS), Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), as well as African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) where he also served as a regular contributor to its award-winning blog Black Perspectives from 2023-2025. He has published over 30 articles respected journals in the discipline such as in the International Journal of Africana Studies, the Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of African American Studies, and Africology: The International Journal of Pan African Studies. Claybrook has been interviewed and lent his expertise to print, television, and online blogs such as the Black Studies Podcast with Dr. Ashley Newby. Claybrook serves as the chair and undergraduate advisor of the Department of Africana Studies at CSU, Long Beach, where he also served two terms as faculty co-president of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, as well as advises the Black Student Union and the Black Business Student Association. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach.