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The Status of Adult and Continuing Education within American Institutions of Higher Learning.
Lynch, David M.; Bowker, Lee H. – 1989
Data gathered from a national survey on the status of adult and continuing education in the United States are presented. Chapters cover: continuing education in 410 institutions of higher education (description of the sample, relationships among institutional characteristics, staffing patterns, and support for grants acquisition); the continuing…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Role, Adult Education, College Administration
Supporting Teaching in Research Universities and Teaching Colleges.
Lynch, David M.; Bowker, Lee H. – 1985
The viewpoints of graduate deans, continuing education deans, and chief liberal arts academic officers about the relative availability of institutional funds to support teaching and research are compared. Distinctions between research universities and teaching colleges in funding teaching and research activities are also explored, based on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Instruction, Colleges, Continuing Education
Strategies Deans and Vice-Presidents Can Use to Enhance Teaching in Their Institutions.
Bowker, Lee H.; Lynch, David M. – 1985
Four strategies that deans and vice-presidents can use to enhance teaching are suggested. The first strategy is to seek out and fund teaching support activities that are the state of the art in each discipline. The second is to reward professors for excellence in teaching more than for excellence in research. Third, administrators should develop…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Instruction, Deans, Faculty Evaluation
Chief Liberal Arts Academic Officers: The Limits of Power and Authority.
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Lynch, David M.; And Others – Studies in Higher Education, 1987
Results of a 1984 national survey of chief liberal arts academic officers (department heads, deans, and chief academic officers) are used to examine aspects of administrator careers and behavior, including grant administration, job satisfactions and frustrations, and career success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Career Development, Career Ladders
What Every Department Chair Should Know about the Dean: Findings from Four National Surveys.
Bowker, Lee H.; Lynch, David M. – 1985
Information about deans that may be helpful to department chairs is presented, based on the findings of four national surveys of deans. The surveys of social science, graduate, continuing education, and arts and sciences deans covered the deans' role in resource allocation to departments, teaching and research support for faculty, tenure and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Instruction, Deans
Graduate Deans and Graduate Education: A National Study.
Lynch, David M.; Bowker, Lee H. – 1984
The responsibility for graduate education and the power and authority structure among graduate deans, college or school deans, departments, and faculty were studied using a sample of 338 schools. Attention was directed to the following concerns: institutional characteristics that are related to the organization and administration of graduate…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, College Faculty