This person coordinates and supervises curriculum planning and arranges staff assignments within a particular academic department A chairperson may help you with planning your program, signing forms, and discussing academic problelms in that department
The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it. She's the chairperson of the safety committee. chairpersons someone who is in charge of a meeting or directs the work of a committee or organization
A presiding officer; in the Committee of the whole House the Chairperson performs the role played by the Speaker in the House and is the sole judge of all matters arising in committee; a presiding officer in a select committee