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On standards or conventions specific to management as an academic discipline, and programs that lead to a degree in this field. Do not use 'management' for questions on managing research projects, or managing situations; use other tags (such as 'lab-management' or 'workplace').

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In American universities, why are academics placed in managerial and administrative functions?

As suggested in a comment to another answer of mine, I'll expand my sentence "We rarely hire "professional managers in academe, because we do not trust that they know what is going on here." That is …
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