The roles and challenges of deans

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-266

  Montez, Joni Mina ^b   Wolverton, Mimi ^a   Gmelch, Walter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NONE

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