This course will be available by June 30 but can be purchased now as part of the Better Departments bundle. 

Even resilient departments with great faculty meetings face moments of tension and crisis. Disciplinary disagreements, contentious high-stakes decisions, labor and contract negotiations, and the impact of the larger institution and society can all accumulate into difficult departmental dynamics. 

Faculty and staff leaders, in particular, need to know how to step forward in these moments. And yet, all members of a department can contribute to the worsening or the betterment of the situation.

This course features a 30-minute video in which Diana Kardia reviews the research on conflict to provide practical advice for responding to tension and crisis in an academic department.