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Finding Happiness as Chair: What the Buddha Said

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This session presents an eight point plan for surviving and thriving in one of the most complex jobs in higher education. Utilizing Buddha’s wisdom we will discuss a simple pathway for finding happiness and contentment amid the expectations of this difficult position.

Keywords: leadership, communication, equilibrium, interactions, consistency

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Brown, R. D., Linn, D. & Coronado, J., (2015) “Finding Happiness as Chair: What the Buddha Said”, Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings 1(2015).

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    1. This session will involve the discussion of using the Buddha’s teaching as a model for working as a department chair.

    2. Participants will gain a working plan to address the imbalance that comes with the position of department chair.

    3. The session will give an eight-point plan, based on the practice of Buddhism, for removing imbalance and finding happiness as a department chair.

    4. Participants will engage the nonsectarian philosophy of Buddhist wisdom to examine methods on engagement as a department chair.

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2015-03-05

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