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On Doing More with Less
and Other Messages for University Administrators
Collected Papers of a Former Insider
by
Bruce R. Beattie

ISBN 0-9786819-0-8

Complete book for printing (minus the cover) 592k pdf file

Front cover 2mb pdf file

On Doing More with Less is a collection of papers written over a twenty-year span of time. Why do precious taxpayer and university resources go to proliferating administration when classrooms and laboratories cry out, unanswered, for additional faculty? How can this overburdening and muddled administrative structure—that also stifles creativity and creates animosity between academic units—be fixed? How should administration react to the proliferation of interdisciplinary and topical-studies programs? What strategies will sustain and enhance departmental productivity in good times and bad? What role should scholarly research play in teaching and outreach? What role should decentralized faculty and learned societies, versus the administration, play in setting research, teaching, and outreach agendas? How can faculty evaluation be improved? And, of course, how can faculty meet administration’s charge to do more with less in budget-strapped times?

On Doing More with Less is available for purchase or may be downloaded and printed from the links below. If you would like a printed copy, please send $15 to the following address:

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