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You have excellent points, David -- I had been thinking in terms of high
school, rather than university department chairs when I started the thread..
..I know that they often have to write grants, too, but it is nothing com-
pared to the tasks confronting a department chair in the university setting.

There are all sorts of staffing/curriculum/admissions/budgeting issues which
have to be dealt with, and sometimes a person whose primary mission is
direct involvement with students and classrooms is not at all the appropriate
choice for department chair.  But I still think that leading a department
should include some teaching activity, whether its an honors seminar or a
yearly minicourse for freshmen, introducing them to the workings of the field.
Lili
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