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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:04:09 -0500
- From: Lili Velez <lv08+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: The Business of Departments (was "Overpriced Admins..")
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- Kurt Grosshans suggests that department heads should only administrate,
- be separated from teaching duties, and their time used "for conducting
- the business of the department".
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- What exactly _is_ the business of the department, besides curriculum
- development and teaching? Now, I know that's probably an extreme way of
- asking the question -- I don't mean to be jumping down Kurt's throat
- here. But still....teaching _should_ be what is on a departments mind
- (I think I'd classify research as something of a teaching enterprise, if
- students are involved in the work, but let's keep that a separate issue
- for the moment). And how can a person lead their department of teachers
- adequately if they are divorced from the hands-on-work in the classroom?
- I don't respect administrators who can no longer contribute to the full
- life of a department.
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- Lili Fox Velez
- Rhetorician in Residence
- Department of Biological Sciences
- Carnegie Mellon University
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