Academic Leader helps deans, department chairs, and other academic decision-makers provide effective leadership in fulfilling their institutions’ primary missions of teaching, scholarship and service.

Who should read:
• Academic deans
• Provosts
• Academic vice-presidents
• Department chairs/heads
• Others in academic leadership roles

Benefits of reading:
• Develop leadership skills with practical information and advice from peers on leadership issues that department chairs, academic deans, and other academic leaders face.
• Improve communication with proven practices for managing, leading, and supporting faculty and academic programs.
• Keep up to date on the latest leadership methods.
• Improve your “bottom line” with strategies for budgeting, fundraising, and incentives.

Types of articles and writing style:
The newsletter is composed of five to eight feature articles (often case studies, practical advice based on experience and research, or opinion pieces). Types of topics covered include: program assessment, curriculum, distance education, pedagogy, faculty development, managing change, personnel policies, faculty support, faculty roles and rewards, faculty evaluation, promotion and tenure, budgets, leadership methods, adjunct faculty, fundraising, interdisciplinary research and teaching, conflict management, strategic planning, and time management.

Pricing and subscription term:
$198 - 12 issues per year
Discounts for multiple copy subscriptions
Available in print or online delivery

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Meet the Editor:
Robert Kelly has been an editor and writer for Magna Publications since 2000, when he assumed responsibility for Academic Leader. Rob additionally serves as managing editor for Online Classroom, which he founded in 2001, and assists with The Teaching Professor and The Edutech Report. Rob has interviewed nearly a thousand faculty and administrators during his tenure at Magna. Before that he held various editorial positions in the field of tax law, community newspapers and a university hospital public relations office. Rob has a B.A. in political science/liberal arts from the College of New Jersey and studied journalism at West Virginia University.
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Submission Guidelines:
Please read the following author’s guidelines or contact the Editorial Department at editor@magnapubs.com or (608) 227-8120.