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Preparing to Fight the Good Fight: Advice from Two Associate Deans to Faculty Friends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Amy Fried  and
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
Amy Fried
Affiliation:
University of Maine
Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Abstract

In our professional work, many of us are involved in university service and politics and some of us enter administrative positions. As political scientists who became associate deans of colleges of liberal arts and sciences, our observations from our administrative perches and our disciplinary knowledge have provided insights on how faculty can protect and promote academic values.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 149 - 153
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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