Guest editorial: On being a department chairperson From: The American Biology Teacher | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: Sundberg, Marshall D | Copyright National Association of Biology Teachers May 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The department chair is the most difficult and arguably the most important position in an educational institution (Bennett & Figuli 1990). On the one hand you are a member of the faculty with many of the rights and responsibilities of a faculty member, but on the other hand, you are an administrator with the dual task of bringing concerns from the department to the attention of higher administration and bringing the directives of administration back to the faculty. Several years ago I dec...

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