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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:27:33 -0500
- From: Lili Velez <lv08+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: The Business of Departments (was "Overpriced Admins..")
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- You have excellent points, David -- I had been thinking in terms of high
- school, rather than university department chairs when I started the thread..
- ..I know that they often have to write grants, too, but it is nothing com-
- pared to the tasks confronting a department chair in the university setting.
-
- There are all sorts of staffing/curriculum/admissions/budgeting issues which
- have to be dealt with, and sometimes a person whose primary mission is
- direct involvement with students and classrooms is not at all the appropriate
- choice for department chair. But I still think that leading a department
- should include some teaching activity, whether its an honors seminar or a
- yearly minicourse for freshmen, introducing them to the workings of the field.
- Lili
- Rhet in the Blue Linen Labcoat
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