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The Mission-Driven Department: Benefits of Departmental Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2005

Michelle D. Deardorff  and
Brian D. Posler
Michelle D. Deardorff
Affiliation:
Jackson State University
Brian D. Posler
Affiliation:
Millikin University
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Over the last 10 years in the discipline of political science, there has been a flourishing discussion about the role of departmental assessment. Clearly, one fear has been that these external mandates are infringements on academic freedom at worst, and make extra work for faculty at best. In an early article published in PS: Political Science and Politics, a survey of political science departments discovered that frequently the response to assessment was one of ignorance and often animosity.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 273 - 276
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© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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