The Department Chair as Academic Leader

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.