The following are the leadership behaviors that we value in UO’s Unit Heads: 

• Provide vision for how the department can grow and change during their time as department head.
• Invest in an inclusive culture, ensuring a climate in which all members of the department belong and have a voice, especially those who from communities or identities that have be historically marginalized.
• Ensure the curriculum is relevant, high quality, inclusive and navigable for students.
• Collaborate with the academic unit manager to manage the business of the department such as budget, faculty meetings, course loads, summer school, new programs etc. 

• Support faculty success through regularly occurring clear, candid and kind communication about expectations for research, teaching or service and faculty progress towards promotion or tenure.
• Ensure equitable service assignments.
• Serve as a communication conduit between the members of your department and your dean’s office, the office of the provost and other campus partners.
• Support faculty, students and staff recognition through submission nominations of teaching, research, mentorship or other awards as appropriate.
• Support culturally responsive and network-based mentorship practices that include formal department infrastructure combined with school/college and university-wide mentorship programs. 

• Access, understand and follow policies and procedures described in the United Academics and GTFF CBAs, as well as University and Unit policy libraries.
• Evaluate professional, inclusive, engaged and research-informed teaching using the UO’s criteria-based, multi-sourced procedure.
• Ensure accurate procedures are followed for tenure and promotion review.
• Engage appropriate campus partners and dean’s office when problem arise.