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This important new work will help department chairs, faculty, and administrators understand and address the increasing complexity of relationships within higher education, as well as the growing influence of external factors. The Department Chair as Academic Leader is a completely updated revision of Allan Tucker's seminal contribution, Chairing the Academic Department, last published in 1992. This work reflects the approach used in the ACE Workshops for Division and Department Chairs and Deans.
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Four authors, academic leaders themselves, cover departmental challenges such as maintaining access to a widely varying population, using technology and other methods to improve instruction, rethinking curricula, and managing the department--all in an atmosphere of static of diminishing resources. Coverage includes such functional topics as budget management, fund-raising, long-term planning, department evaluation, part-time faculty management, development of teaching assistants, and faculty productivity monitoring. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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