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Faculty Managers: A Constantly Changing Role

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Professional and Support Staff in Higher Education

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This chapter discusses the role of Faculty Manager that is typically the most senior professional staff role in the largest academic units in universities. It is a continuously developing role and is a crucial lynchpin for the successful management of academic units which are at the heart of delivering the core raison d’etre of a university. To explore these roles in more detail, Faculty Managers in Australian and New Zealand universities were surveyed in 2004, 2012, and most recently 2016. These three surveys are discussed in this chapter, identifying what it is these people do, who inhabits these roles, how their roles have developed, what challenges they face in the higher education climate of the early twenty-first century, and what skills they need and might need into the future.

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    Judy Szekeres

  2. Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Szekeres, J., Heywood, T. (2019). Faculty Managers: A Constantly Changing Role. In: Bossu, C., Brown, N. (eds) Professional and Support Staff in Higher Education. University Development and Administration. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1607-3_5-3

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    Faculty Managers: A Constantly Changing Role
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