ERIC ED368165: Managing the Foreign Language Department: A Chairperson's Primer.

309 Pages·1993·4.7 MB·English

by  ERIC

DOCUMENT RESUME
ED 368 165
FL 021 776
AUTHOR
Slick, Sam L., Ed.; Klein, Richard B., Ed.
TITLE
Managing the Foreign Language Department:
A
Chairperson's Primer.
INSTITUTION
Southern Conference on Language Teaching.
REPORT NO
ISBN-1-88364-0-00-8
PUB DATE
93
NOTE
309p.
AVAILABLE FROM
Southern Conference on Language Teaching,
Valdosta
State University, Valdosta, GA 31698 ($20
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General (020)
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DESCRIPTORS
Administrator Attitudes; Administrator Guides;
Administrator Responsibility; *Administrator Role;
College Presidents; *College Second Language
Programs; *Department Heads; Higher Education;
Liberal Arts; *Program Administration; *Second
Languages
ABSTRACT
A collection of 31 articles addresses issues in
college language department administration, focusing
on the role and
responsibilities of the department head. The following
articles are
included: "View from the Top: What
a Liberal Arts College President
Expects from a Language Department" (Schmidt); "View
from the Top:
What a Liberal Arts Dean Expects from
a Language Department" (Allan);
"View from the Top: What
a Graduate School Dean Expects from a
Language Department" (Reedy); "Raison d'etre: Foreign
Languages and
the Liberal Arts Today" (Sachs); "Administering
Graduate Programs"
(Schulman); "Recruiting and Hiring Faculty" (Mullen);
"Evaluating
Faculty" (Eustis); "Motivating Faculty
Performancc and Encouraging
Scholarship" (Parr); "Employing and Managing Part-rime
Faculty in
Foreign Languages" (Bostick); "Grantsmanship:
Estallishing a Process"
(Verzasconi); "Staff Development for
Foreign Langtage Faculty"
(Terry); "Coordinating Foreign Language
Graduate Teaching Assistants"
(Baldwin); "Long-Range Planning: Crisis Intervention
and Putting a
Troubled Department Back on Course" (Tatum); "Chairing
the Small
Department: Or When You're the Only One" (Klein);
"Purpose and
Function of Professional Associations and Meetings:
Networking"
(Gay-Crosier) ;
"Legal Issues: Employment Discrimination,
Sexual and
Racial Harassment" (Zatlin); "Women's Issues:
Sexism, Joint
Appointments, and Other Troublesome Matters" (Sullivan);
"Spaniards
vs. Germans vs. French vs. Russians vs. Italians
vs. Chinese vs.
Japanese, etc.: The Blissfulness of Multiculturalism" (Lamoureux);
"Teaching Foreign Languages and Literatures:
Confrontation,
Coexistence, or Collaboration" (Medley, Jr.); "The
Foreign Language
Department and Less Commonly Taught Languages" (Vieira); "The
Foreign
Language Department and Study Abroad Programs" (Zipser);
"Academic
and Career Advising for Foreign Language Majors and
Minors"
(Perricone); "The Chair and Collective Bargaining"
(Zamora);
"Teaching and Research in Institutions
Large and Small" (Wellington);
"Public Relations: Evolving
Into the 'We-Care Attitude of Action"
(Dease); "Elementary and Intermediate
Foreign Language Programs:
Nervous from the Service" (Gallant);
"The Foreign Language Department
and Interdisciplinary Studies" (Slick);
"Managing the Office: No,
Secretaries Are Not God, Although
They May Seem Like It" (Thames);
"Foreign Language Departments
at Two-Year Schools: The Issues before
Us" (Fountain) ;
"How Long to Stay on the Job: Counting
the Gray
Hairs" (Klein) ;
and "Additional Items of Importance:
What You Really
Need to Know, but Didn't Know Enough to
Ask" (Klein and Slick).
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Foreign Language
Department:
A Chairperson's
Primer
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MANAGING
THE
FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT:
A CHAIRPERSON'S PRIMEF.
Sam L. Slick
University of Southern Mississippi
and
Richard B. Klein
University of Mississippi
Editors
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Southern Conference on Language Teaching
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia
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©1993
Southern Conference on Language Teaching
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
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All rights reserved
including the right of reproduction
in whole or in part in any form.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-84304
Printed in the United States of America
by Colson Printing Company
Valdosta, GA 31601
ISBN: 1-883640-00-8
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Dedication
We dedicate this book to the memory of our fathers:
Harvey L. Slick and A. A. Klein.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Lee Bradley
xi
Acknowledgments
Sam L. Slick
and Richard B. Klein
xiii
Introduction
Sam L. Slick
and Richard B. Klein
xv
1 View from the Top: What
a Liberal Arts College
President Expects from a Language Department
Ruth A. Schmidt
1
2 View from the Top: What
a Liberal Arts Dean
Expects from a Language Department
George Allan
9
View from the Top: What a Graduate School
Dean Expects from a Language Department
Daniel R. Reedy
19
4 Raison d'être:
Foreign Languages and the Liberal
Arts Today
Murray Sachs
27
5 Administering Graduate
Programs
Ivan A. Schulman
35
6 Recruiting and
Hiring Faculty
Edward J. Mullen
47
7 Evaluating
Faculty
J. Christopher Eustis
59
8 Motivating
Faculty Performance and Encouraging
Scholarship
James A. Parr
73
9
Employing and Managing Part-Time Faculty in
Foreign Languages
Herman F. Bostick
81
7
Foreign Language Department
ship: Establishing a Process
87
zasconi
opment for Foreign Language Faculty
97
Terry
ng Foreign Language Graduate
ssistants
105
Baldwin
.
le Planning: Crisis Intervention
g a Troubled Department Back on
115
Tatum
e Small Department: Or When
Only One
sol Klein
125
d Function of Professional Associations
gs: Networking
133
ay-Crosier
es: Employment Discrimination,
Racial Harassment
a
145
in
Issues: Sexism, Joint Appointments,
Troublesome Matters
A. Sullivan
153
vs. Germans vs. French vs. Russians vs.
Chinese vs. Japanese, etc.:
Mess of Multiculturalism
163
Lamoureux
.
oreign Languages and Literatures:
tion, Coexistence, or Collaboration
edley, Jr
173
L
ix
Table of Contents
20
The Foreign Language Department and Less
Commonly Taught Languages
Nelson H Vieira
183
21
The Foreign Language Department and Study
Abroad Programs
Richard A. Zipser
195
22
Academic and Career Advising for Foreign
Language Majors and Minors
Catherine R. Perricone
203
23
The Chair and Collective Bargaining
Juan C. Zamora
211
24
Teaching and Research in Institutions Large and
Small
Marie Adele Wellington
217
25
Public Relations: Evolving Into the "We-Care
Attitude of Action"
Barbara Crockett Dease
225
26
Elementary and Intermediate Foreign Language
Programs: Nervous from the Service
Clifford J. Gallant
237
27
The Foreign Language Department and
Interdisciplinary Studies
Sam L. Slick
245
28
Managing the Office: No, Secretaries Are Not God,
Although They May Seem Like It
Richard W. Thames
253
29
Foreign Language Departments at Two-Year
Schools: The Issues before Us
Anne 0. Fountain
259
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Managing the Foreign Language Department
x
30 How Long to Stay
on the Job: Counting the Gray
Hairs
Richard B. Klein
265
31 Additional Items of Importance: What You Really
Need to Know, but Didn't Know Enough to Ask
Richard B. Klein and Sam L. Slick
273
List of Contributors
307
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